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21 February 2010 8:17 PM | Tagged: health nitrogen oxygen news
Nitrogen Blog
Nitrogen is a chemical element that has the symbol N, atomic number of 7 and atomic mass 14.00674 u. Elemental nitrogen is a colorless, odorless, tasteless and mostly inert diatomic gas at standard conditions, constituting 78% by volume of Earth's atmosphere.

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20 December 2009 12:17 PM | Tagged: us
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A weekend nor'easter buried much of the U.S. East Coast on Saturday and Sunday, disrupting public transport and air travel and hampering holiday shoppers on the last weekend before Christmas. Up to 22 inches of snow was expected by Saturday night in the Baltimore-Washington area, more than any snowstorm to hit the region since February 2003, as the storm system moved north

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20 December 2009 12:37 AM | Tagged: us
WASHINGTON - A blizzard-like storm rocked the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Saturday, crippling travel across the region and causing hundreds of thousands of power outages. Five deaths appeared to have been caused by the storm system, which stretched from the Carolinas north to New England and also spread into some Midwestern states. The 13 inches of snow that had fallen in the nation's capital b

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20 December 2009 12:37 AM | Tagged: us
Despite being separated from their families, astronauts heading to the International Space Station next week are excited to be spending Christmas in space, a crew member said Saturday. Invoking a famous cartoon shown in the United States during the holiday season, American astronaut Timothy Creamer said the crew would not let a trip to the cosmos spoil their mood and planned to exchange gifts as

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19 December 2009 12:57 PM | Tagged: us
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. East Coast was under a Winter Storm Warning early on Saturday for heavy snowfall centered around the nation's capital, the National Weather Service said on its website. Snow accumulation through Saturday night for Washington, D.C, was forecast at between 15 and 25 inches, with cold and windy conditions and blowing snow. The storm was expected to pass through the mi

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19 December 2009 10:37 AM | Tagged: us
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A major storm moving up the Atlantic Coast on the last shopping weekend before Christmas threatened to shut down much of the region as officials warned of the potential for up to 20 inches of snow and significant power outages. People stocked up on groceries and other staples as the National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings from the Carolinas to New Jersey. In Virg

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18 December 2009 10:47 PM | Tagged: us
BOSTON (Reuters) - Celgene Corp said on Friday that initial results from a clinical trial showed multiple myeloma patients who took its drug Revlimid following a stem cell transplant had a 58 percent reduction in risk of their disease progressing. The company's shares rose nearly 10 percent to $55.60 in afternoon trading on Nasdaq. We anticipated Revlimid would likely be effective in this settin

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17 December 2009 10:57 PM | Tagged: us
BILLINGS, Mont. - As efforts falter to save North America's largest freshwater fish — a toothless beast leftover from the days of dinosaurs — officials hope to stave off extinction by sending more water hurtling down a river so the fish can spawn in the wild. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday issued a report saying attempts over the past two years to save the endangered K