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Google has began weaving an automated language translation feature into its universal search service. http://www.physorg.com/news179117208.html Technology Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:55:44 EST news179117208 Google Inc. and other Internet companies have zeroed in on a resilient effort by a Republican lawmaker to pass legislation that could restrict their ability to take a nuanced approach to operating in "repressive" foreign countries, according to third-quarter lobbying reports. http://www.physorg.com/news178313476.html Technology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:40:03 EST news178313476 (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to get people to use its Internet search engine more frequently. http://www.physorg.com/news177865301.html Technology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:03:03 EST news177865301 (PhysOrg.com) -- Current methods of searching audiovisual content can be a hit-and-miss affair. Manually tagging online media content is time consuming, and costly. But new 'query by example' methods, built on peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures, could provide the way forward for such data-intensive content searches, say European researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news177780052.html Technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:30:01 EST news177780052 (AP) -- Google Inc. is giving Web surfers a few more ways to refine their search results, signaling its resolve to ward off rival Microsoft Corp.'s aggressive campaign to lure traffic. http://www.physorg.com/news173625083.html Technology Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:12:00 EST news173625083 Google has developed a formula to predict hot online search topics in what promises to be a boon for businesses eager to target ads that accompany Internet search results. http://www.physorg.com/news169929297.html Technology Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:35:21 EST news169929297 A study by researchers at the University of Leicester has revealed new ways to spot whether medical research has hidden biases. Writing in the prestigious British Medical Journal, Santiago Moreno and his colleagues demonstrate how to spot 'publication bias' in the reporting of clinical trials which potentially form the basis of Government and NHS health policies. They also show what mathematical adjustments can be made to remove such unintended distortion of data. http://www.physorg.com/news169894397.html Medicine & Health Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:20:01 EST news169894397 The Internet is a vastly different place than it was 15 years ago, but the way consumers search it has changed very little. http://www.physorg.com/news166903914.html Technology Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:20:01 EST news166903914 Getting more high-quality sleep is associated with better academic performance. according to new research. The positive relationship is especially relevant to performance in math. http://www.physorg.com/news163823870.html Medicine & Health Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:38:13 EST news163823870 (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is rolling out a redesigned search site in the coming days and hopes it will lure more Web surfers than the two most recent incarnations, Live Search and MSN Search. http://www.physorg.com/news162735603.html Technology Thu, 28 May 2009 13:20:30 EST news162735603 (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. is pruning Web links from its Internet search results as it strives to provide more immediate gratification and lure traffic away from the market leader, Google Inc. http://www.physorg.com/news162016380.html Technology Wed, 20 May 2009 05:33:31 EST news162016380 If you don't like the results that come up when you search for your name on Google, you now have a new free way to make sure people find the online information you want them to by creating a free Google Profile and filling it with accurate information. http://www.physorg.com/news160222232.html Technology Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:11:06 EST news160222232 (AP) -- Google Inc. prides itself on setting trends, but it appears to be copying some of its smaller rivals with the latest refinements to the way it displays Internet search results. http://www.physorg.com/news157140195.html Technology Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:03:55 EST news157140195 In the world of search engines, clicks mean cash, and in a sluggish economy, companies can benefit by maximizing click-throughs to their Web sites from search engines. http://www.physorg.com/news155994477.html Technology Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:48:33 EST news155994477 For patients who have drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis, it's critical to monitor the disease as closely as possible. That means monthly testing throughout a two-year course of powerful antibiotics, with injections six days a week for the first six months. http://www.physorg.com/news153577647.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:28:02 EST news153577647 Rapid advances in the biological sciences over the last several decades have yielded great benefits such as medical therapies and vaccines. But some of these same scientific advances could also be used for malicious purposes, a threat that has become more salient to the science and policy communities since the terrorist attacks of 2001. http://www.physorg.com/news153060351.html Biology Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:51:56 EST news153060351 Stereotactic vacuum-assisted breast needle biopsy, a common minimally invasive biopsy method used in the US, is more effective with an 11-gauge needle than the 14-gauge needle decreasing a physician's chances of false-negative diagnoses, according to a study performed at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, CA. http://www.physorg.com/news152812027.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:47:39 EST news152812027 There are lots of things you hear while you're out that you might want to remember later, such as the name of a movie to rent, restaurants to try or shows to program on the DVR. http://www.physorg.com/news152384088.html Technology Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:55:17 EST news152384088 (PhysOrg.com) -- Models of how Saturn and Jupiter formed may soon take on a different look. http://www.physorg.com/news152208969.html Space & Earth Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:16:41 EST news152208969 Treatment times for amblyopia - more commonly known as 'lazy eye' - could be drastically reduced thanks to research carried out at The University of Nottingham. http://www.physorg.com/news148049188.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:46:28 EST news148049188 While an estimated 2.3 million people in the United States take part in clinical trials every year, there currently exists no formal requirement to inform them of study results, an oversight that leaves participants confused, frustrated, and, in some cases, lacking information that may be important to their health. In an article published today in the Archives of Neurology, researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center have proposed a novel and effective approach to disseminate the results of clinical trials to study volunteers. http://www.physorg.com/news147980355.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:39:15 EST news147980355 The phrase "empty nest" can conjure up images of sad and lonely parents sitting at home, twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their children to call or visit. However, a new study, reported in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggests that an empty nest may have beneficial effects on the parents' marriage. http://www.physorg.com/news147446670.html Medicine & Health Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:24:30 EST news147446670 Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a chronic clinical disorder characterized by irreversible damage to the pancreas, the development of histologic evidence of inflammation and fibrosis, and eventually the destruction and permanent loss of exocrine and endocrine tissue. Imaging or function tests may not reveal early CP, and the results of these tests do not necessarily correlate with each other. http://www.physorg.com/news147352040.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:07:20 EST news147352040 The lack of common measurement methods among light-emitting diode (LED) and lighting manufacturers has affected the commercialization of solid-state lighting products. In a recent paper, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology proposed a new, economical method to allow LED and lighting manufacturers to obtain accurate, reproducible, and comparable measurements of LED brightness and color. http://www.physorg.com/news146850428.html Physics Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:47:08 EST news146850428 Analysis of data from 38 studies that enrolled more than 2.7 million women - the largest of its kind - by researchers at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, and the University of Santiago de Compostela reveals that regular use of Non Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) is associated with a 12 per cent relative risk reduction in breast cancer compared to non-users. http://www.physorg.com/news142616691.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:44:51 EST news142616691 Personal beliefs about inconclusive DNA testing for hereditary breast cancer are associated with cancer-related worry, and such beliefs are an especially strong predictor of whether women had been able to leave the period of DNA-testing behind, reports a study in the October issue of Genetics in Medicine, official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG). The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. http://www.physorg.com/news142178889.html Medicine & Health Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:08:09 EST news142178889 It has long been known that environmental factors play a part in the development of rheumatoid arthritis; smoking and drinking alcohol, along with heredity, are particularly instrumental in increasing the risk of the disease. Scientists at Karolinska Institutet have now produced results that suggest that working environment factors can also increase the chances of developing rheumatoid arthritis. http://www.physorg.com/news141469542.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:05:42 EST news141469542 Genetic testing can identify a group of patients with advanced colorectal cancer who are likely to survive on average twice as long if treated with the drug cetuximab, late breaking results show. http://www.physorg.com/news140787443.html Medicine & Health Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:37:23 EST news140787443 Nutrients transported from catchments are one of the most important sources for lake eutrophication. The Honghu Lake Basin, located at the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, was chosen as the study area, the numerical simulations were used to assess the relative roles of natural, climate-induced changes versus human-related activities in changes of the nutrient transportation. The simulation results showed that the effect from human activities increased rapidly, and had become a dominant factor. http://www.physorg.com/news138435775.html Space & Earth Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:22:55 EST news138435775 Scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab have combined Tevatron data from the two experiments to advance the quest for the long-sought Higgs boson. Their results indicate that Fermilab researchers have for the first time excluded, with 95 percent probability, a mass for the Higgs of 170 GeV. http://www.physorg.com/news137076565.html Physics Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:49:25 EST news137076565