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Life & Chemistry

New Genes Linked to Throat Cancer Identified in Major Study

Scientists from Singapore, China and USA have identified three new susceptibility genes in a genome-wide association study of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC)….

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers' first "movie of the sky": Pan-STARRS survey starts science mission

Scientists of the Max Planck Institutes for Astronomy and for Extraterrestrial Physics are involved in a number of the survey’s key projects, including…

Studies and Analyses

Intervention Reduces Youth Obesity Rates in High Diabetes Risk

An intervention in middle schools lowered the obesity rate in students at highest risk for type 2 diabetes, those who started out overweight or obese in sixth…

Studies and Analyses

Consulting 'Dr. Google'

The quality of online information about the most common sports medicine diagnoses varies widely, according to a study published in the July 2010 issue of the…

Physics & Astronomy

Unraveling Supernova Origins: Dark Energy’s Cosmic Mystery

The resulting discovery of dark energy and the accelerating universe rewrote our understanding of the cosmos. Yet the origin of these supernovae, which have…

Information Technology

Online Images Can Carry Location Data, Leave Users Vulnerable to “Cybercasing”

In an ICSI technical report published May 2, Gerald Friedland and Robin Sommer reported that they were able to identify where images posted online were…

Physics & Astronomy

AMS Experiment Launches at Kennedy Space Center

A press conference to mark the occasion will be held at the press room of Geneva International Airport at 9:00 CEST on 25 August, and journalists will have the…

Information Technology

Data Mining Is Shaping Our World. Are We Ready for It?

In a July cover article titled “The Web Means the End of Forgetting,” the New York Times Magazine explored how the Internet is changing privacy. Recently, the…

Studies and Analyses

Failure: The Key Teacher for Future Business Success

While success is surely sweeter than failure, it seems failure is a far better teacher, and organizations that fail spectacularly often flourish more in the…

Health & Medicine

Vitamin A Boosts HIV Presence in Breast Milk, Study Finds

Epidemiologist Eduardo Villamor of the University of Michigan School of Public Health says transmission of HIV through breastfeeding happens because breast…

Life & Chemistry

New Infrared Light Techniques Target Cancer and Tay Sachs

University of Central Florida chemists, led by Professor Kevin Belfield, used near infrared light and fluorescent dye to take pictures of cells and tumors deep…

Science Education

Dental Surgery Made Easy: Explore the ILKUM E-Learning Platform

The new e-learning platform ILKUM (an acronym for “Interaktiver Lernzielkatalog der Universitätsmedizin Mainz” or interactive catalogue of learning objectives…

Interdisciplinary Research

Researchers Give Robots the Capability for Deceptive Behavior

“We have developed algorithms that allow a robot to determine whether it should deceive a human or other intelligent machine and we have designed techniques…

Interdisciplinary Research

Football-Playing Robots: Shaping AI’s Future at RoboCup

The author, Claude Sammut, from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems in Sydney, reviewed the technology demonstrated at the RoboCup…

Physics & Astronomy

Scientists Explore Mars with Laser Zentrum Hannover’s Mission

Europe is getting ready for its first unmanned visit to the surface of Mars. “On board” are the scientists of the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH). The group…

Physics & Astronomy

New Optics Tech Reveals Hidden Planets in Stunning Detail

Using new optics technology developed at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory, an international team of astronomers has obtained images of a planet…

Life & Chemistry

Joining the searching for genes that control mind and behavior

The highly sophisticated abilities of humans, such as memory, learning, cognition and thought, are achieved in the brain as a result of dramatic evolutionary…

Interdisciplinary Research

Linking Geometry and Physics: New Solutions Ahead

Salvatore Torquato, a professor of chemistry, has shown that two abstract puzzles in geometry — known as the “covering” and “quantizer” problems — can be…

Physics & Astronomy

Exoplanet Discovery: First Find From Another Galaxy

Over the last 15 years, astronomers have detected nearly 500 exoplanets orbiting ordinary stars in our cosmic neighborhood. Now, for the first time,…

Life & Chemistry

Gene links to anorexia found by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia researchers

Scientists at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have identified both common and rare gene variants associated with the eating disorder anorexia nervosa….

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