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...When researchers gave a group of children with upper respiratory infections one of two active ingredients in over-the-counter cough syrup or a placebo, they found that the kids taking either of the cough-syrup ingredients had no better improvement in their symptoms than those taking the dummy liquid. In fact, all three groups had fewer symptoms on the second day. That should be a useful lesson for anxious parents: when it comes to coughing, sometimes the best medicine is to wait...
...Gruber, Grier and company have long since replaced the plastic with a liquid-crystal device, which they build into a small, box-shaped machine that you could call a cell catcher. Arryx has dubbed it CellRyx. Where BioRyx is useful "for anyone with a need to have hands in the microscopic world," notes Grier, CellRyx is specifically for sorting cells. A blood-equipment company, Gruber says, will soon purchase a CellRyx that will remove platelets from donated blood. The platelets, which induce clotting, would then be given to hemophiliacs. The same blood machine could remove bacterial cells, or could extract...
...clean through its concrete housing; and 27 tons of MIC was released into the gentle southerly breeze that made kite-flying Bhopal's favorite sport. Over the next weeks, months and years, Chand and 15,247 others died?often blinded, and poisoned or drowned as the gas turned to liquid in their lungs?and a further 572,173 out of a population that was then 900,000 needed treatment...
When ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's asked a Penn State scientist to build a freezer that won't contribute to global warming, the result was like a frat-house experiment gone right. The apparatus uses sound waves to compress and expand helium, which in turn chills a liquid cooling agent--in this case, vodka. Bizarre, but it works: the stainless-steel canister was used last April to cool pints of Cherry Garcia and Chunky Monkey at a New York City scoop shop...
...LCOS Liquid Crystal On Silicon projects directly onto the screen with no mirrors. PRO: High contrast and high resolution. CON: There aren't many LCOS sets yet. Philips has discontinued its models. HOT BRAND...