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...walking along in the B entryway basement hallway going to the computer lab, and randomly saw a desk, mattress frame and whiteboard leaned against the wall, looking like they had been deserted there for a while. Thinking this was left-over stuff someone no longer wanted, and hating for a whiteboard to go to waste, I took the whiteboard up to my room. It occurred to me, however, someone might have been temporarily storing their stuff there for later use. So I wanted to check: is this anyone's stuff? Was this...
...epidemiologists had been able to pick up those early media reports about SARS, the disease might not have gone on to kill nearly 800 people. That's one of the reasons researchers at Children's Hospital Boston, together with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, developed HealthMap, a website that mines more than 30,000 data sources - including news media and government alerts - and puts them on a Google Map to show where outbreaks are occurring, in real time. Whether it's measles in Sussex, foot-and-mouth disease in Taiwan or avian flu in Indonesia, as reports...
...function, which tracks an individual user's location. So the program enables you to find out instantly whether there are any new outbreaks close to home. "The system can deliver reports that are relevant to your location," says Clark Freifield, a Ph.D. student at MIT's Media Lab and a co-founder of HealthMap. See the top iPhone applications...
...breathe can immediately increase your blood pressure, and cause unhealthy changes in your blood vessels that last for hours and perhaps even days. The study measured the effect of air pollution in healthy people in two cities - Ann Arbor, Mich., and Toronto - where participants were exposed in the lab to the same amount of particulates and ozone that would be found near a local highway. People who breathed in polluted air registered higher blood-pressure readings a short time after exposure, compared with those who breathed filtered air, and their blood vessels showed impairment as long as 24 hours later...
...total number of species range wildly, from 5 million to 30 million to as many as 100 million. Although multitudes of uncharted animals and plants may be hiding in the tropical rain forest or at the bottom of the ocean, many new species are discovered today in the lab, where scientists examine the DNA of what appears to be a single, widely distributed species only to find that it's actually a collection of separate species that look alike. The dusky salamander of the Appalachian and Adirondack mountains, for example, is now known to be four distinct species...