'Bad carbs' not the enemy, UV professor finds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 29, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (40) | comments 0

The latest common wisdom on carbohydrates claims that eating so-called “bad” carbohydrates will make you fat, but University of Virginia professor Glenn Gaesser says, “that’s just nonsense.” Eating sandwiches with white bread, ...


Breaking the barrier toward nanometer X-ray resolution

Breaking the barrier toward nanometer X-ray resolution

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 29, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 1

A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have overcome a major obstacle for using refractive lenses to focus x-rays. This method will allow the efficient focusing ...


Carnegie Mellon researchers create new scanning system

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 29, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Indiana Jones, step aside. Carnegie Mellon University’s Yang Cai is developing new technology that could revolutionize the way archeologists work.


New discovery may improve treatment of one of the world's leading causes of blindness

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 29, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

An inflammatory eye condition that is one of the world’s leading causes of blindness could be treated much more effectively and easily thanks to a new discovery here.


Dutch zoo breeds own jellyfish

Biology /

created Sep 29, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Marine biologists at a Dutch zoo say they have succeeded in the difficult task of breeding jellyfish in captivity.


Ultrasound plus mammography finds more cancers, but increases false positives

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 29, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Adding ultrasound to mammography finds more cancers than mammography alone, but also substantially increases the number of false positives, according to first-year results from a three-year study of the two tests.


FDA cracks down on hydrocone products

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 29, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it will start taking enforcement action against companies marketing unapproved hydrocodone products.



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