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British dentists warned of vCJD risk

British dentists are being told not to re-use dental instruments from root canals because it could put patients at risk for mad cow disease.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 20, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New pill would eliminate menstruation

A new birth control pill that stops menstruation completely is expected to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration next month.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Apr 20, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (13) | comments 1

Doctors remove gallbladder through vagina

Doctors in New York have removed a woman's gall bladder vaginally with minimal external incisions.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 20, 2007 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

China meeting on space waste delayed

China, apparently fearing criticism of its recent satellite destruction, has put off hosting next week's global meeting on hazardous space waste.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 20, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Smith Micro Launches File Recovery Software Tool

Smith Micro has released its MediaRECOVER 4.0, a file-recovery software tool that enables users to recover their lost or corrupted digital media files.

Technology / Software

created Apr 20, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

EMC Acquires Its Way to Juggernaut Status

These days, EMC looks a little like the Energizer Bunny - it keeps going, and going, and going - seemingly unstoppable.

Technology / Business

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Chronic family turmoil and other problems cause physical changes

Adolescents who are chronically exposed to family turmoil, violence, noise, poor housing or other chronic risk factors show more stress-induced physiological strain on their organs and tissues than other young people.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 20, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Laser Acceleration of Electrons Excites Physicists

A new experiment aims to accelerate electrons using dark red light.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 20, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Physicists Develop Force Law for Granular Impacts: Sand, Other Granular Matter's Behavior Is Better Defined

Sand. A single grain is tiny, but solid, and shares the physical properties of other solid matter. But pack or transport millions of grains together - as modern society does with coffee grounds, flour and industrial chemicals ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 20, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Researchers Report Ability to Detect Cancer at Earliest, Curable Stage

Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego report that they have developed a new method for detecting cancer very early in its development, when it consists of just a few cells. The ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 20, 2007 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Medical Textiles No Longer for 'External Use Only'

If you’ve ever had a broken arm – or a paper cut – you probably appreciated the healing role textiles played in your recovery. New types of materials are now being used to treat internal illnesses and injuries, making surgeries ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 20, 2007 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

How cells deal with uncertainty

Researchers at McGill University have found that cells respond to their ever-changing environment in a way that mimics the optimal mathematical approach to doing so, also known as Bayes’ rule; an application of probability ...

Biology /

created Apr 20, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Scientists discover vast intergalactic plasma cloud

Combining the world's largest radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico with a precision imaging, seven-antenna synthesis radio telescope at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO), a team of researchers led by ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 20, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (28) | comments 0

Brain networks strengthened by closing ion channels

Yale School of Medicine and University of Crete School of Medicine researchers report in Cell April 20 the first evidence of a molecular mechanism that dynamically alters the strength of higher brain network connections.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 20, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Study shows how brain interprets surfaces

Imagine looking at a pool of spilled milk. Your brain knows that it's milk and not another white substance like sugar, or cottage cheese, but how does it know?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 20, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (24) | comments 0