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  Attacking the edges of secure Internet traffic

  Technology / Internet
  3 hours ago | 4 / 5 (1) | 0 (AP) -- Researchers have uncovered new ways that criminals can spy on Internet users even if they're using secure connections to banks, online retailers or other sensitive Web sites.
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  Graphene shows strange new behavior better suited for electronic devices

  Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
  17 hours ago | 5 / 5 (12) | 3 | Regarded as a possible replacement for silicon-based semiconductors, graphene, a sheet of pure carbon, has been discovered to have an uncommon and astonishing property that might make it better matched for ...
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  'White graphene' to the rescue: Hexagonal boron nitride sheets may help graphene supplant silicon

  Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
  18 hours ago | 4.9 / 5 (9) | 3 | What researchers might call "white graphene" may be the perfect sidekick for the real thing as a new era unfolds in nanoscale electronics.
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  Could an Aqua-Net Bring Water to the Desert?

  Space & Earth / Environment
  20 hours ago | 3.9 / 5 (11) | 12 | (PhysOrg.com) -- Challenges of the future include energy use and continued population growth. And, while there are millions of square miles of land available in the world, not all of it is considered fit for ...

• Scientists pinpoint a cell-of-origin for human prostate cancer

  Medicine & Health / Cancer
  17 hours ago | 5 / 5 (6) | 1 | UCLA scientists have identified for the first time a cell-of-origin for human prostate cancer, a discovery that could result in better predictive and diagnostics tools and the development of new and more effective targeted ...

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  Dance Memory: Studying how the mind remembers physical movement

  Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
  18 minutes ago | not rated yet | 0 Human memory - taking in information, storing it and retrieving it accurately - is key to a variety of crucial decisions made in medicine or law and physical movements like dance.

• Ruptured Earth -- in the aftermath of the Chilean earthquake

  Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
  6 minutes ago | not rated yet | 0 On 27 February 2010, a gargantuan 8.8 earthquake struck south-central Chile, the fifth largest event ever recorded by modern seismology.

• SEMATECH Demonstrates Mask Pattern Alignment and Registration to Enable Double Patterning Lithography

  Technology / Semiconductors
  9 minutes ago | not rated yet | 0 SEMATECH and the Semiconductor Metrology Systems division from Carl Zeiss announced today that Zeiss' next-generation photomask registration and overlay metrology system has successfully passed a key development milestone. ...

• Living with a Rising Giant

  Other Sciences / Social Sciences
  47 seconds ago | not rated yet | 0 How do Americans feel about the rise of China and its dominance in the world?

• Judge: FWS plan excluded possible lynx habitat

  Biology / Ecology
  2 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 (AP) -- A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service arbitrarily excluded "critical habitat" that could be occupied by the elusive Canada lynx.

• New study: Tools that assess bias in standardized tests are flawed

  Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
  2 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 Overturning more than 40 years of accepted practice, new research proves that the tools used to check tests of "general mental ability" for bias are themselves flawed. This key finding from the Indiana University Kelley School ...

• Australia govt expands proposed broadband network

  Technology / Telecom
  2 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 (AP) -- Australia's government expanded its ambitious plan to bring broadband to much of the vast country, adding 300,000 homes and businesses to the coverage area Friday in hopes of winning votes in next month's federal ...
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  'Nightmare' start for iPhone 4's latest launch

  Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
  2 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 Hundreds of customers in New Zealand and Hong Kong were turned away empty-handed on Friday as the second phase of the Apple iPhone 4's global launch got off to a "nightmare" start.

• False alarm: Google search still working in China

  Technology / Internet
  3 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 (AP) -- Google Inc. triggered a false alarm Thursday by posting a notice that its search engine and several other services had been cut off from mainland China - a key market where the company has been locked in a high-profile ...
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  FBI access to e-mail and Web records raises fears

  Technology / Internet
  3 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 (AP) -- Invasion of privacy in the Internet age. Expanding the reach of law enforcement to snoop on e-mail traffic or on Web surfing. Those are among the criticisms being aimed at the FBI as it tries to update ...
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  Expo shows illegal pet trade rampant in Indonesia

  Biology / Ecology
  2 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 (AP) -- The most threatened tortoise in the world is being sold openly at a plant and animal exposition in the heart of Indonesia's capital, highlighting concerns about the rampant - and growing - illegal ...

• Chicken producers debate 'natural' label

  Medicine & Health / Health
  3 hours ago | not rated yet | 1 (AP) -- A disagreement among poultry producers about whether chicken injected with salt, water and other ingredients can be promoted as "natural" has prompted federal officials to consider changing labeling guidelines.

• Scientists say global warming is continuing

  Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
  21 hours ago | 3.2 / 5 (9) | 12 (AP) -- Scientists from around the world are providing even more evidence of global warming, one day after President Barack Obama renewed his call for climate legislation.

• Study finds male modesty a turn off for women (and men)

  Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
  19 hours ago | 3.5 / 5 (11) | 8 "Macho, macho man. I've got to be, a macho man. Macho, macho man. I've got to be a macho!" — The Village People

• Clinical trials can be improved by managing the learning curve

  Medicine & Health / Other
  7 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 Practitioners of clinical medicine are familiar with learning curves, and strategies like simulation are increasingly used to minimize learning-curve effects on clinical care. Because similar learning curves have been hinted ...

• Transforaminal steroid injection for lumbar radicular pain proves superior to placebo

  Medicine & Health / Research
  7 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 A recent study from Australian researchers determined that transforaminal injection of steroids was a viable alternative to surgery for lumbar radicular pain due to disc herniation. Full details of the study appear in the ...

• Plant compound resveratrol shown to suppresses inflammation, free radicals in humans

  Medicine & Health / Research
  18 hours ago | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 4 Resveratrol, a popular plant extract shown to prolong life in yeast and lower animals due to its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, appears also to suppress inflammation in humans, based on results from the first ...
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  Tablet computers 'job one urgency' at Microsoft: Ballmer

  Technology / Software
  13 hours ago | 2.3 / 5 (3) | 2 Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said Thursday that developing Windows-based tablet computers and getting them to market is "job one urgency" for the US software giant.
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  An Alchemist's Dream: Superatoms Mimic Elements

  Chemistry / Materials Science
  16 hours ago | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 2 (PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Will Castleman and his team have discovered clusters of atoms that mimic some of the properties of other elements. Called "superatoms," these clusters of atoms behave like a single "superatom" ...
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  Japan experts call for robot expedition to moon

  Space & Earth / Space Exploration
  19 hours ago | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 2 An expert panel advising the Japanese government called in a report approved on Thursday for the nation to send a wheeled robot to the moon in five years and to build the first lunar base by 2020.
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  Adult industry sees iPorn potential in new phone

  Technology / Business
  21 hours ago | not rated yet | 2 (AP) -- It's a maxim of technology: Invent the newest gadget and the porn industry will find a way to cash in.

• New drugs for cystic fibrosis bring hope

  Medicine & Health / Research
  11 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 Emily Schaller likes to travel as part of the cystic-fibrosis advocacy she does, but the daily regimen she uses to manage her disease weighs her down.

• 30 million women to benefit from health reform law

  Medicine & Health / Health
  7 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 Thirty million women will benefit from the new health reform law over the next decade, either through new or strengthened insurance coverage, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund. In the first analysis of ...

• Combination treatment for obesity leads to substantial reductions in body weight

  Medicine & Health / Health
  12 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 Combination treatment for obesity using the drugs naltrexone and bupropion, plus diet and exercise, helps reduce bodyweight by a mean of 5% or more over a year, depending on the dosage used. The findings of the COR-I study ...

• Researchers create fluorescent biosensor to aid in drug development

  Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
  19 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 | Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new fluorescent biosensor that could aid in the development of an important class of drugs that target a crucial class of proteins called G protein-coupled receptors ...

• Brain potentials reveal spectator effect

  Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
  12 hours ago | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0 The neurological responses caused by observing somebody else playing a game have been uncovered. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience found differing responses for neutral observers, compared to tho ...
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  Million dollar contest launched in US to clean oil spill

  Space & Earth / Environment
  13 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 A US foundation that helped launch private spaceflight Thursday turned its gaze and pocketbook towards Earth, unveiling a 1.4-million-dollar contest to find new ways to clean up oil spills.

• Study opens the door to new class of drugs for epileptic seizures

  Medicine & Health / Research
  21 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 | A chemical compound that boosts the action of a molecule normally produced in the brain may provide the starting point for a new line of therapies for the treatment of epileptic seizures, according to a new study by scientists ...
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  Galapagos dropped from UNESCO endangered list

  Biology / Ecology
  12 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 UNESCO's World Heritage Committee said Wednesday it has removed Ecuador's Galapagos Islands from its list of endangered sites, due to Quito's protective efforts in the Pacific archipelago.

• Home birth: Proceed with caution

  Medicine & Health / Health
  12 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 The risks associated with home birth are discussed in the lead Editorial in this week's Lancet, which says that while women have the right to choose how and where to give birth, they do not have the right to put their baby a ...