Going green: Entire Swedish city switches to biofuels to become environmentally friendly

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (61) | comments 5

Though a fraction of Chicago's size, this industrial city in southeast Sweden has plenty of similarities with it, including a long, snowy winter and a football team the town's crazy about.


The new gizmo -- called the "Mimi Switch" or "Ear Switch"

Japanese gadget controls iPod in blink of an eye

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 2

A wink, a smile or a raised eyebrow could soon change the music on your iPod or start up the washing machine, thanks to a new Japanese gadget.


It's raining pentagons

It's raining pentagons

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 08, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 2

This week's Nature Materials (09 March 2009) reveals how an international team of scientists led by researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL have discovered a novel one dimensional ice ch ...


Scientists identify the neural circuitry of first impressions

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 08, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Neuroscientists at New York University and Harvard University have identified the neural systems involved in forming first impressions of others. The findings, which show how we encode social information and then evaluate ...


Hospitals offer new take on medical mistakes

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 08, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

All Donald Platt wanted was an apology. The tumor on his kidney was the size of a baseball by the time his cancer was detected in a CT scan - five years after his doctor misdiagnosed his symptoms and failed to order the right ...


Fruit flies' genetic wealth has scientists abuzz

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 08, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Buzzing with excitement, the "fly people" swarmed into Chicago this week to hear the latest news about an unsung hero of science: the humble fruit fly.


Protein helps immune cells to divide and conquer

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a key protein that is required for immune cells called B lymphocytes to divide and replicate themselves. The rapid generation of large ...


Researchers discover gene mutations that cause childhood brain cancer

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Mar 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers funded by the Canadian Cancer Society have discovered eight similar genes that, when mutated, appear to be responsible for medulloblastoma - the most common of childhood brain cancers. The findings are published ...


Cleft lip and palate: Genes more important than thought?

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Mar 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Comparing 500,000 snippets of human DNA put scientists from the University of Bonn on the right track. A genetic variant on chromosome 8 occurs with significantly higher frequency in people with cleft lip and palate than ...


Researchers describe molecular 'two-step' leading to protein clumps of Huntington's disease

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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In a paper published in the early online version of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine deconstruct the first steps in an intricate molecular dance that m ...



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