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(PhysOrg.com) -- The University of Utah will celebrate the initial observations or "first light" of its new $860,000 research telescope in southwest Utah during a Wednesday, Nov. 11 symposium and reception on the Salt Lake City campus. http://www.physorg.com/news176551313.html Space & Earth Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:30:01 EST news176551313 A new Canadian study has found that lower-than-normal levels of a naturally-occurring fat hormone may increase the risk of death from sepsis -an overwhelming infection of the blood which claims thousands of lives each year. http://www.physorg.com/news175528441.html Medicine & Health Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:50:02 EST news175528441 U.S. power grid chief Jon Wellinghoff is touting the long-term cost savings of electric cars, saying the vehicles could earn $1,500 a year in paybacks for their owners when their batteries are connected to the power grid. http://www.physorg.com/news173111092.html Technology Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:40:01 EST news173111092 (AP) -- The billionaire founder of a popular search engine drew a big crowd Wednesday at Stanford University - and it wasn't one of the guys that started Google Inc. just a few miles from the campus they once attended. http://www.physorg.com/news172991996.html Technology Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:20:40 EST news172991996 (AP) -- Since June, a Web site called SharesPost has been helping a small pool of qualified buyers and sellers trade shares in fast-growing startups that have not yet gone public. Now, the private stock exchange is hoping those same startups will use its site to search for funding. http://www.physorg.com/news171135764.html Technology Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:10:05 EST news171135764 (PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes inspiration comes from the strangest of places. For Sheree Kwong See, it happened during a testing session with a subject while conducting a study on language and cognitive changes in the elderly. Kwong See was explaining the test to the research participant who reacted to the instructions in a quite unexpected manner. http://www.physorg.com/news169912987.html Other Sciences Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:20:01 EST news169912987 (AP) -- EBay Inc. is developing software it might use to continue running the online telecommunications service Skype if it cannot resolve a legal dispute with a separate company run by the service's founders. http://www.physorg.com/news168280900.html Technology Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:42:04 EST news168280900 (AP) -- Venture capitalists cut their U.S. investments in half during the spring, the second-consecutive quarter to mark a more than 50 percent decline, leaving the money flowing to startups at the slowest trickle in 12 years. http://www.physorg.com/news167373371.html Technology Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:10:01 EST news167373371 (AP) -- How much is Facebook worth? A Russian investment firm appears to put it at $6.5 billion to $10 billion. http://www.physorg.com/news166728555.html Technology Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:29:40 EST news166728555 (AP) -- Scott Painter makes his living betting on startup companies, having played a role in launching 29 of them over the years. But with the bad economy choking initial public offerings and acquisitions, Painter is now backing an idea that makes it easier for insiders like him to sell shares in their companies even before they go public. http://www.physorg.com/news165324400.html Technology Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:30:01 EST news165324400 (AP) -- After six months of grooming, LinkedIn Corp. founder Reid Hoffman has decided former Yahoo Inc. executive Jeff Weiner is ready to take over his job running the Internet's largest site devoted to professional networking. http://www.physorg.com/news165072775.html Technology Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:36:49 EST news165072775 India's largest software exporter Tata Consultancy Services Monday said net profit rose 4.61 percent in the fourth quarter, hit by lower fees and cuts in technology spending due to the global economic slowdown. http://www.physorg.com/news159456890.html Technology Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:35:23 EST news159456890 (AP) -- EBay Inc. plans to spin off its Internet communications service Skype through an initial public offering, undoing a $2.6 billion acquisition that puzzled analysts and eBay struggled to justify. http://www.physorg.com/news158949373.html Technology Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:37:27 EST news158949373 When making investments, investors look for start-ups that have a strong business plan and a strong management team. A new study in The Journal of Finance reveals that while strong management is important, ultimately a strong business idea matters most to investors. http://www.physorg.com/news158405517.html Other Sciences Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:32:32 EST news158405517 Imagine that you have been in combat and that you have watched your closest friend die in front of you. The memory of that event may stay with you, troubling you for the rest of your life. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is among the most common and disabling psychiatric casualties of combat and other extremely stressful situations. People suffering from PTSD often suffer from vivid intrusive memories of their traumas. Current medications are often ineffective in controlling these symptoms and so novel treatments are needed urgently. http://www.physorg.com/news156522212.html Medicine & Health Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:23:58 EST news156522212 The underlying sense of being in control of our own actions is challenged by new research from UCL (University College London) which demonstrates that the choices we make internally are weak and easily overridden compared to when we are told which choice to make. http://www.physorg.com/news153581911.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:39:06 EST news153581911 Two children have a seizure. One child never has another seizure. Twenty years later, the other child has a series of seizures and is diagnosed with epilepsy. A study being led by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is looking at what could possibly happen in the development of these two children that would lead to such extreme variations in their neurologic health. http://www.physorg.com/news150468657.html Medicine & Health Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:50:57 EST news150468657 Graduates from a single medical school who began graduate medical education (residency) programs appear more likely to change specialty or discontinue graduate medical education training if they are academically highly qualified or are pursuing training in general surgery or a five-year surgical specialty, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. http://www.physorg.com/news148581966.html Medicine & Health Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:46:06 EST news148581966 (PhysOrg.com) -- If you write a blog and haven`t been to Skribit (skribit.com) perhaps it`s just a matter of time. Paul Stamatiou created the service as a tool to help cure blogger`s block (writer`s block for bloggers) a little over a year ago, and already it boasts more than 4,000 blogs using it and gets about 4 million hits per month. http://www.physorg.com/news148062997.html Technology Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:36:37 EST news148062997 Breast cancer patients who receive breast-conserving therapy and radiation do not need a follow-up mammogram until 12 months after radiation, despite current American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines that recommend follow-up mammograms at between six and 12 months after radiation, according to a November 15 study in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology. http://www.physorg.com/news146832545.html Medicine & Health Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:49:05 EST news146832545 In low-transmission areas, if widely used, artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) may reduce malaria transmission as effectively as the widespread use of insecticide-treated bed nets, says a new study published in next week's PLoS Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news146816301.html Medicine & Health Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:18:21 EST news146816301 Among people who have had an initial colonoscopy that found no polyps, a possible sign of cancer, the risk of developing colorectal cancer within five years is extremely low, a new study has found. http://www.physorg.com/news140891480.html Medicine & Health Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:31:20 EST news140891480 The standard regimens to treat tuberculosis (TB) are inadequate in countries with high rates of multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB. In countries with high rates of MDR-TB, patients are nearly twice as likely to fail their initial treatment than those in countries with low rates, according to a new analysis of World Health Organization (WHO) data. This finding suggests strongly that current TB treatment regimens need to updated and revised to address the shifting landscape of public health in the face of MDR-TB. http://www.physorg.com/news136793347.html Medicine & Health Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:09:07 EST news136793347 The Drosophila simulans species complex continues to serve as an important model system for the study of new species formation. The complex is comprised of the cosmopolitan species, D. simulans, and two island endemics, D. mauritiana and D. sechellia. A substantial amount of effort has gone into reconstructing the natural history of the complex, in part to infer the context in which functional divergence among the species has arisen. In this regard, a key parameter to be estimated is the initial isolation time (t) of each island species. http://www.physorg.com/news133619677.html Medicine & Health Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:34:37 EST news133619677