• Climate 'Tipping Points' May Arrive Without Warning, Says Top Forecaster

  Space & Earth / Environment
  9 hours ago | 3.7 / 5 (6) | 5 | (PhysOrg.com) -- A new University of California, Davis, study by a top ecological forecaster says it is harder than experts thought to predict when sudden shifts in Earth's natural systems will occur -- a worrisome finding ...

• Energy from light and water: New photocatalytic method for the clean production of hydrogen from water

  Chemistry / Materials Science
  18 hours ago | 4.7 / 5 (12) | 9 | (PhysOrg.com) -- Hydrogen-powered fuel cells and solar energy are the best hope for a more environmentally friendly and resource-sparing energy supply in the future. A combination of the two is considered to be particularly ...
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  Bored to death? It's possible

  Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
  19 hours ago | 3.7 / 5 (16) | 8 | (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the University College London in the U.K. have found that living a life of boredom can kill you.
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  Extra large carbon

  Physics / General Physics
  10 hours ago | 4.6 / 5 (11) | 5 | An exotic form of carbon has been found to have an extra large nucleus, dwarfing even the nuclei of much heavier elements like copper and zinc, in experiments performed in a particle accelerator in Japan. ...
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  The power of 'random': 'Seemingly loopy' technique could dramatically improve communications networks

  Technology / Computer Sciences
  19 hours ago | 4.8 / 5 (9) | 5 | A radical new approach to the design of communications networks, called "network coding," promises to make Internet file sharing faster, streaming video more reliable, and cell-phone reception better -- among ...

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• Depression and lack of concentration do not necessarily go together

  Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
  5 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 Many clinicians believe that depression goes hand in hand with cognitive difficulties such as memory problems or difficulties concentrating and paying attention, but a recent review of nearly 20 years of literature conducted ...
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  38 percent of world's surface in danger of desertification

  Space & Earth / Environment
  5 hours ago | 2.3 / 5 (3) | 5 A team of Spanish researchers has measured the degradation of the planet's soil using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), a scientific methodology that analyses the environmental impact of human activities, and ...
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  Study carried out into biological risks of eating reptiles

  Biology / Cell & Microbiology
  11 hours ago | 3 / 5 (2) | 4 Reptiles are bred in captivity primarily for their skins, but some restaurants and population groups also want them for their meat. A study shows that eating these animals can have side effects that call into ...

• Watch your step: Elevator-related injuries and older adults

  Medicine & Health / Health
  7 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 In the first large-scale epidemiological study of elevator-related injuries in older adults in the United States, researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine and an Ohio State University colleague report in ...
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  Russia wants to charge more for rides to space: report

  Space & Earth / Space Exploration
  22 hours ago | 5 / 5 (3) | 5 Russia, which is set to hold a monopoly on flights to the international space station (ISS), wants to charge more for rides on its Soyuz rocket, the space agency head said Tuesday.

• The Glass Cliff: Female representation in politics and business

  Other Sciences / Social Sciences
  5 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 Leadership positions in business have proven to be precarious for women. Female business leaders are more likely to be appointed to powerful leadership positions when an organization is in crisis or high-risk circumstances. ...

• New finding of the expression of Helicobacter pylori in Chilean patients

  Medicine & Health / Diseases
  4 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) colonize the human stomach and present genetic mechanisms to evade the host immune response allowing their persistence in this habitat for years. A study involving 130 H. pylori strains isolated ...

• Multicenter study finds little effect of soy isoflavones on bone loss in postmenopausal women

  Medicine & Health / Research
  8 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 A previous six-month study by Iowa State University researchers had indicated that consuming modest amounts of soy protein, rich in isoflavones, lessened lumbar spine bone loss in midlife, perimenopausal women. But now an ...

• High-performance microring resonator developed by INRS researchers

  Physics / Optics & Photonics
  8 hours ago | 1 / 5 (1) | 0 A new, more efficient low-cost microring resonator for high speed telecommunications systems has been developed and tested by Professor Roberto Morandotti's INRS team in collaboration with Canadian, American, and Australian ...

• Study: End-of-life care must reflect patient wishes and values

  Medicine & Health / Health
  9 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 Researchers from Brown University and Harvard Medical School are calling for improved decision-making in the use of feeding tubes for hospitalized nursing home residents with advanced dementia.

• Researchers discover new way to kill pediatric brain tumors

  Medicine & Health / Cancer
  9 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown once again that "ready, fire, aim," nonsensical though it may sound, can be an essential approach to research.

• URI researcher calls for global effort to monitor marine pollutants

  Space & Earth / Environment
  10 hours ago | 3 / 5 (2) | 1 A University of Rhode Island researcher who studies chemical pollutants in the marine environment has called on colleagues around the world to establish a global monitoring network to verify that the chemicals banned by the ...

• The biggest loser: Maternal obesity puts a load on her offspring that lasts a lifetime

  Medicine & Health / Health
  9 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 As if there are not enough reasons for obese people to lose weight, a new research report published online in The FASEB Journal, adds several more. In a study involving rats, researchers from Duke University found that obesity ...

• Handling emergencies online

  Technology / Internet
  9 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 Online social networking sites could solve many problems plaguing information dissemination and communications when disaster strikes, according to a report from US researchers in a recent issue of the International Journal of ...

• Butter leads to lower blood fats than olive oil

  Medicine & Health / Health
  19 hours ago | 4.2 / 5 (11) | 1 | High blood fat levels normally raise the cholesterol values in the blood, which in turn elevates the risk of atherosclerosis and heart attack. Now a new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that butter leads to considerably ...
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  Google Maps climbs to Olympic peaks

  Technology / Internet
  10 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 Google sent snowmobiles rigged with cameras into Canadian mountains so folks snug and warm at home will get views of slopes at the Winter Olympic Games kicking off on Friday.
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  Researchers reveal 3-D structure of bullet-shaped virus with potential to fight cancer, HIV

  Biology / Cell & Microbiology
  19 hours ago | 4.6 / 5 (10) | 0 | (PhysOrg.com) -- Using cryo-electron microscopy and advanced image-processing methods, UCLA researchers have developed a model of how the potentially therapeutic vesicular stomatitis virus assembles.

• Predicting effectiveness of flu vaccination campaigns

  Medicine & Health / Research
  9 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 A new study, published by Elsevier this month in Vaccine, describes a new method that assesses the impact and cost-effectiveness of a range of vaccination options. The model was applied to the 2009 Influenza H1N1 outbreak and pr ...

• Research could lead to way to halt deadly immune response

  Medicine & Health / Research
  9 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 Researchers have teased out the molecular process that can shut down a marauding, often deadly immune response that kills thousands each year who suffer battlefield casualties, heart attacks, strokes, automobile accidents ...

• Helicobacter pylori and EBV in gastric carcinomas

  Medicine & Health / Cancer
  2 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 Mechanisms of gastric carcinogenesis are still not yet understood. Studies have linked genetic and epigenetic factors or microbiological agents to gastric cancer, but they didn't look for these events together. Dr. Ferrasi ...

• Blueberries counteract intestinal diseases

  Medicine & Health / Health
  14 hours ago | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 1 It is already known that blueberries are rich in antioxidants and vitamins. New research from the Lund University Faculty of Engineering in Sweden shows that blueberry fibre are important and can alleviate and protect against ...
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  Drinking, Smoking Often Intertwine for Students

  Medicine & Health / Health
  19 hours ago | not rated yet | 2 (PhysOrg.com) -- Mark and Mimi Nichter have published a series of articles recently about the smoking behaviors of college students, offering important insights about smoking related to drinking, gender and ...

• New method for measuring fluid flow in algae could herald revolution for fluid mechanics

  Physics / General Physics
  19 hours ago | 5 / 5 (3) | 0 | In the words of Todd Squires, of the University of California, Santa Barbara "Nature has long inspired researchers in fluid mechanics to explore the mechanical strategies used by living creatures. Where better to look for ...

• Questions remain on bariatric surgery for adolescents

  Medicine & Health / Other
  10 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery can effectively treat obesity in adolescents and seems to offer a better alternative than gastric bypass surgery, but further study is needed to determine whether it's better ...
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  Office romance? Not a problem most of time: study

  Other Sciences / Social Sciences
  12 hours ago | not rated yet | 1 (PhysOrg.com) -- Pam and Jim on The Office. Meredith and McDreamy on Grey's Anatomy. Television shows depict many workplace romances, but in the real world how do co-workers view love on the job? According ...
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  EU ministers call for common electric car strategy

  Technology / Energy
  11 hours ago | 2 / 5 (2) | 1 EU industry ministers on Tuesday pressed the European Commission to establish a common strategy to develop electric cars.

• Molecular pathways linked to sex, age affect outcomes in lung cancer

  Medicine & Health / Cancer
  11 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 The biology of lung cancer differs from one patient to the next, depending on age and sex, according to scientists at Duke University Medical Center. The findings may help explain why certain groups of patients do better ...
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  Adapting to clogged airways makes common pathogen resist powerful antibiotics

  Medicine & Health / Research
  20 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 | (PhysOrg.com) -- Certain bacteria cause chronic lung infections in people with cystic fibrosis. Surviving in this oxygen-poor, nitrate-rich environment makes the bacteria less susceptible to antibiotics.

• Warner CEO sees e-book 'fracas' as helping music

  Technology / Business
  11 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 (AP) -- The head of Warner Music Group expressed hope on Tuesday that the recent "fracas" over the price of e-books would help give content creators such as his company more pricing power over device makers.

• Breakthrough for mobile television

  Technology / Software
  13 hours ago | 3.8 / 5 (4) | 0 Long Term Evolution, the new mobile telecommunications standard, will revolutionize mobile Internet. High transmission rates will soon be possible on mobile devices. For this purpose Fraunhofer researchers at HHI Berlin, ...