• Readers' Choice Story: July 1

  Salamanders, regenerative wonders, heal like mammals, people

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  Climate change and the mystery of the shrinking sheep

  Biology / Evolution
  9 hours ago | 3.2 / 5 (5) | 0 Milder winters are causing Scotland's wild breed of Soay sheep to get smaller, despite the evolutionary benefits of possessing a large body, according to new research due to be published in this week's Science Expres ...
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  Printable batteries

  Technology / Engineering
  13 hours ago | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 2 For a long time, batteries were bulky and heavy. Now, a new cutting-edge battery is revolutionizing the field. It is thinner than a millimeter, lighter than a gram, and can be produced cost-effectively through ...

• Perfect pitch study offers window into influences of nature and nurture

  Medicine & Health / Genetics
  7 hours ago | not rated yet | 1 Practice, practice, practice might get you to Carnegie Hall, but for aspiring musicians, there's new evidence that genes may influence one's ability to get there, as well.

• Second Life data offers window into how trends spread

  Technology / Computer Sciences
  7 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 Do friends wear the same style of shoe or see the same movies because they have similar tastes, which is why they became friends in the first place? Or once a friendship is established, do individuals influence each other ...

Other news

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  A scientist probes the origins of 'ouch!'

  Medicine & Health / Research
  8 hours ago | not rated yet | 2 Skinning a knee, swallowing habanero salsa, and installing snow chains bare-handed might seem pretty different at first. But all have one thing in common -- they're guaranteed to hurt.

• Study identifies how tamoxifen stimulates uterine cell growth and cancer

  Medicine & Health / Cancer
  6 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 UCSF researchers have identified a new "feed-forward" pathway linking estrogen receptors in the membrane of the uterus to a process that increases local estrogen levels and promotes cell growth.
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  Learning from locusts: Study points toward new treatment for stroke and migraine

  Medicine & Health / Research
  7 hours ago | not rated yet | 1 A similarity in brain disturbance between insects and people suffering from migraines, stroke and epilepsy points the way toward new drug therapies to address these conditions.
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  A question of height: Learning from reintroduction of once extinct butterfly in Britain

  Biology / Plants & Animals
  7 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 Intelligent countryside management could improve the survival chances of animal and plant species threatened by climate change. The creation of small heat-shielded habitats and better links between habitats ...

• Who wants to pay more for green electricity?

  Space & Earth / Environment
  15 hours ago | 2 / 5 (4) | 4 A research report in the International Journal of Environment and Pollution suggests that individuals prefer to be involved in a collective contribution to green electricity that involve everyone paying more, rather than h ...
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  Clownfish provide clues to animal conflicts

  Biology / Plants & Animals
  7 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 (PhysOrg.com) -- Animal societies are hotbeds of conflict and cooperation, with creatures helping each other one moment and fighting the next. Biologist Andrew Zink has developed a new theoretical framework ...

• Probing Question: How do Ponzi Schemes work?

  Other Sciences / Economics
  8 hours ago | not rated yet | 1 Imagine the shock, the horror, and the sheer panic that would come with learning that the financial plan you’d sunk your life savings into was a sham, the financial experts you trusted were crooks, and all your money was ...
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  Free Spirit: Rock Under the Belly

  Space & Earth / Space Exploration
  8 hours ago | 4 / 5 (2) | 0 Engineers placed a rock underneath the test rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., on July 1, 2009, to more closely simulate Spirit's predicament on Mars.

• TV stations struggling with viewer loss on DTV

  Technology / Telecom
  10 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 (AP) -- The government is helping two dozen TV stations that became difficult to receive by antenna when they switched to new frequencies as part of the digital TV transition, the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday.

• Web retailers, states tussle over tax rules

  Technology / Internet
  9 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 (AP) -- In a big break for online shoppers, Web retailers generally don't have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other physical presence.

• Federal probe finds problems with chelation study

  Medicine & Health / Medications
  12 hours ago | 2 / 5 (4) | 2 (AP) -- A federal investigation has found problems with a controversial study of an alternative medicine treatment for heart attack victims.

• Children with autism need to be taught in smaller groups, pilot study confirms

  Medicine & Health / Diseases
  13 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 2 Since the 1970s, there has been much debate surrounding the fact that individuals with autism have difficulty in understanding speech in situations where there is background speech or noise.

• Brain malformations significantly associated with preterm birth

  Medicine & Health / Research
  11 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 New research out of Wake Forest University School of Medicine provides for the first time a solid scientific answer for the long-standing question of whether there is an association between preterm birth and brain malformations.

• Poor health among indigenous peoples a question of cultural loss as well as poverty

  Medicine & Health / Health
  5 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 The health problems of Indigenous peoples around the world are intimately tied to a number of unique factors, such as colonization, globalization, migration, and loss of land, language and culture. These factors remain even ...

• Britain faces 100,000 swine flu cases a day: minister

  Medicine & Health / Diseases
  11 hours ago | 3 / 5 (2) | 0 Britain could have more than 100,000 cases of swine flu a day by the end of August, the government said Thursday, while stressing there was no need for alarm.
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  Microsoft adds selected 'tweets' to Bing

  Technology / Internet
  11 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 Microsoft is integrating messages from prominent users of Twitter, the hot micro-blogging service, into the results generated by its new Internet search engine Bing.
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  Embryonic stem cells, reprogrammed skin cells have inherent differences

  Biology / Microbiology
  11 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 (PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA researchers have found that embryonic stem cells and skin cells reprogrammed into embryonic-like cells have inherent molecular differences, demonstrating for the first time that the two ...

• Bioethicists lead call for public debates on future uses of stem cells

  Biology / Microbiology
  11 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 More than 40 scientists, bioethicists, lawyers and science journal editors are calling on their colleagues, policy makers and the public to begin developing guidelines for the research and reproductive use of stem cell-derived ...

• Plants' internal clock can improve climate-change models

  Biology / Ecology
  5 hours ago | 1 / 5 (1) | 0 The ability of plants to tell the time, a mechanism common to all living beings, enables them to survive, grow and reproduce. In a study published in the latest issue of the prestigious journal Ecology Letters, an international ...

• Digital Entertainer brings PC content to big screen

  Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
  6 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 So there you are with all those videos, photos and MP3 music files, and the only place you can play all that digital entertainment is on your computer. It's probably sequestered away somewhere in the room you've designated ...

• AP unveils 'treasure trove' of historical footage

  Technology / Internet
  6 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 (AP) -- The Associated Press is digitizing and has begun to release a "treasure trove" of historical film footage from the 1960s and '70s that had been sitting in Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's former World War II headquarters ...
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  Jay Leno wins right to Web name for his new show

  Technology / Internet
  12 hours ago | not rated yet | 1 (AP) -- Television host Jay Leno has won control of a Web address using the name of his new show.

• Pacific Northwest forests could store more carbon, help address greenhouse issues

  Space & Earth / Environment
  12 hours ago | 2.3 / 5 (3) | 0 The forests of the Pacific Northwest hold significant potential to increase carbon storage and help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in coming years, a recent study concludes, if they are managed primarily for that purpose ...
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  Mars data published in Science this week

  Space & Earth / Space Exploration
  5 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 Four papers in the journal Science this week offer new details about the history of water on Mars, gleaned from the 2008 NASA Phoenix Mars Mission that was operated from The University of Arizona.
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  Overweight kids experience more loneliness, anxiety, study finds

  Other Sciences / Social Sciences
  12 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 (PhysOrg.com) -- As childhood obesity rates continue to increase, experts agree that more information is needed about the implications of being overweight as a step toward reversing current trends. Now, a ...

• In the eye of the storm: Why some people stayed behind

  Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
  12 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 Hurricane Katrina was the largest natural disaster in U.S. history, claiming the lives of more than 1,800 victims and causing well over $100 billion in damage along the Gulf Coast. The 2005 storm breached every levee in New ...
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  'Genetic arms race' between bacteria, viruses subject of stimulus grant

  Biology / Ecology
  7 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 The oceans teem with microscopic bacteria that produce much of Earth's oxygen as they absorb carbon dioxide greenhouse gas. But fast-mutating viruses also populate the seas, attacking marine bacteria in an ...

• Improving the biomarker pipeline for early cancer detection

  Medicine & Health / Cancer
  7 hours ago | not rated yet | 1 Several statistical and biological issues need to be addressed in order to improve biomarker identification for early detection of cancer, according to a commentary published online July 2 in the Journal of the National Ca ...
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  Two-Antenna Quad-Beam 11-15 GHz Phased Array RFIC Targeted at Satellite Systems and Advanced Radars

  Technology / Semiconductors
  8 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 (PhysOrg.com) -- The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and Jazz Semiconductor, a Tower Group Company, today announced that they have collaborated to develop a two-antenna quad-beam RFIC phased array ...

• Idaho F&G plan to kill pelicans hits obstacles

  Biology / Ecology
  17 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 (AP) -- Federal officials have told the Idaho fish and game officials that their plan to halve the number of pelicans nesting in southern and eastern Idaho by 2013 to boost fisheries is an "eradication program" that needs ...

• Predicting the return of prostate cancer: New study betters the odds of success

  Medicine & Health / Cancer
  13 hours ago | not rated yet | 1 Cancer experts at Johns Hopkins say a study tracking 774 prostate cancer patients for a median of eight years has shown that a three-way combination of measurements has the best chance yet of predicting disease metastasis.

• World health officials tackle swine flu challenges

  Medicine & Health / Health
  3 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 (AP) -- Swine flu is running wild in the Southern Hemisphere and is spreading rapidly through Europe, with Britain projected to reach 100,000 daily cases by the end of August. The virus is even showing signs of rebounding ...

• Gadgets: A solution for working with underwater cameras

  Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
  4 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 Anyone who takes underwater photos knows how challenging it is to navigate in the water while holding a camera. Another obstacle can be trying to see through the camera's viewfinder or LCD screen while wearing an underwater ...

• TSMC Unveils First Commercial 65-Nanometer Multi-Time Programmable Non-Volatile Memory Technology

  Technology / Semiconductors
  9 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company today announced the foundry segment’s first functional 65-nanometer multi-time programmable (MTP) non-volatile memory (NVM) process technology.
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  Newly discovered gene regulates balance of 'bad' cholesterol

  Medicine & Health / Research
  16 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 In an article in Science, Noam Zelcer from the LACDR (The Netherlands) describes a previously unknown mechanism for regulating the amount of LDL cholesterol. This offers opportunities for supplementing and im ...