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Svend H. Nielsen
Svend H. Nielsen Svend H. Nielsen was born on August 1, 1919 in Kalundborg, Denmark and passed away early Easter Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Balboa, California, at the age of 93. Svend received a Master of Science in Civil and Structural Engineering...
Tags: Technology, Easter, Human Interest, Engineering, Science and Technology
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FDA panel recommends continued Avandia sales, with restrictions
An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday voted to keep the diabetes drug Avandia on the market with a slate of restrictions on its use, and suggested that although evidence of the drug's safety problems may have been overblown,...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Diabetes, Cardiologists, General Practitioners, Education
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Preserving the history of the Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project, the secret research mission to develop an atomic weapon ahead of Germany and bring an end to World War II, was one of the 20th century's most ambitious feats of science and engineering. And one of its darkest moments. In many...
Tags: Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Senate, National Parks, Explosions, Emergency Incidents
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Four FAU Deans: Cutting Health Institutes would be devastating
Every day, health professionals and scientists working in universities and hospitals across the country see the hope that medical research brings to patients treated at their institutions. However, the Appropriations Committee in the House of...Tags: Malaria, Diseases and Illnesses, Medical Procedures and Tests, Manufacturing and Engineering, Research
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Florida to review proposed national science standards (which include hot topics of evolution, climate change)
Florida went through a bruising fight over evolution during the 2007-08 school year when it adopted new science standards that for the first time required the subject be taught in public schools. Now it will decide if it wants to sign on to another...Tags: Conservation, Environmental Issues, Global Change, Ecosystems, Science and Technology
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Death toll from Friday's Oklahoma tornado rises to 14
The death toll from last week’s tornado that tore through Oklahoma rose to 14 -- three of whom were noted storm-chasers -- as rescuers on Monday continued their search for survivors. As of Monday morning, the official count from the tornado, the...
Tags: National Weather Service, Tornadoes, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939), Mary Fallin
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A St. Mary's College education prepares the whole student for life
Anne D. Neal's recent commentary deriding St. Mary's College of Maryland unfairly paints the school with the same broad brush her organization has used to criticize colleges nationwide ("Cautionary campus tale," May 30). Ms. Neal's group, the American...
Tags: Graduation, Culture, Students, Education, Arts and Culture
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NASA: Astronauts could face dangerous radiation levels on trek to Mars
An instrument on NASA’s Curiosity rover found during its deep-space cruise that a mission to a place like Mars could expose humans to potentially dangerous radiation levels, scientists announced Thursday. Currently, NASA allows astronauts to be...
Tags: NASA, Google Inc., Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Washington, DC, Science and Technology
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Scientists to eaters: Don't freak out over Fukushima fish
A team of scientists who have been tracking radiation in bluefin tuna since the 2011 tsunami that crippled the Fukushima Daichi power plant have a message for fearful American eaters: Stop worrying about the health effects of eating fish that carried...Tags: Stony Brook University, Environmental Issues, Japan, Lifestyle and Leisure, Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan)
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Dr. Ruth H. Singer
Dr. Ruth H. Singer, a retired physician who was a state health administrator and later worked in AIDS and HIV treatment at Chase Brexton Health Services, died of pancreatic cancer May 27 at her North Baltimore home. She was 69. "What one loved about Ruth...
Tags: Health, Brooklyn (New York City), Baltimore Museum of Art, HIV Treatment, AIDS
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Newly discovered alien world is giant, hot and 300 light-years away
Scientists have snapped an image of a newly discovered alien world that is just 300 light-years from Earth. The planet, dubbed HD 95086 b, is huge--four to five times the size of Jupiter -- and it makes a wide circle around its young sun, orbiting the...
Tags: NASA, Astronomy, Science and Technology
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French winemaking imported from Italy, chemical evidence shows
The giants of wine, the French, have the Italians to thank, it seems. The story of wine in France -- where the industry grew to influence the world -- can be traced in part through a vessel called an amphora and likely produced around 525 BC to 475 BC....
Tags: Italy, Beverage Industry, France, Arts and Culture, Science and Technology
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