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Scientists demonstrate multibeam, multi-functional lasers

Scientists demonstrate multibeam, multi-functional lasers

Physics / General Physics

created 19 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

An international team of applied scientists from Harvard, Hamamatsu Photonics, and ETH Zürich have demonstrated compact, multibeam, and multi-wavelength lasers emitting in the invisible part of the light spectrum ...


A costly diagnosis: Alzheimer's disease takes toll on memories, and money too

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Alzheimer's disease takes a devastating emotional toll on families but it also is one of the most expensive conditions to treat because of its progressive nature, requiring increasing assistance with eating, bathing and other ...


AT&T and Verizon ads duel on airwaves and in court

Technology / Business

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- What would the holidays be without bickering between siblings? AT&T and Verizon are swamping TV with ads attacking facets of each other's wireless networks. While the ads stick fairly close to the truth, there's ...


CDC warns: Holiday could bring more swine flu (AP)

CDC warns: Holiday could bring more swine flu

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Let us give thanks - and pass the Purell. Your family might be sharing more than turkey and pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving. Swine flu may also be on the table - and at crowded airports and shopping ...


'Uncharted 2' leads Video Game Award nominations (AP)

'Uncharted 2' leads Video Game Award nominations

Technology / Software

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- "Uncharted 2: Among Thieves" has seized a leading eight nominations for this year's Video Game Awards, Spike TV announced Wednesday.


TV bombards children with commercials for high-fat and high-sugar foods

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Childhood obesity in the United States is reaching epidemic proportions. With more than one fourth of advertising on daytime and prime time television devoted to foods and beverages and continuing questions about the role ...


Inequality, 'silver spoon' effect found in ancient societies

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (15) | comments 22

The so-called "silver spoon" effect -- in which wealth is passed down from one generation to another -- is well established in some of the world's most ancient economies, according to an international study coordinated by ...


Genes that drive you to drink (but don't make you an alcoholic)

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Your genetic make up may predispose you to drink more but may not increase your genetic risk for alcoholism (alcohol dependence). Research published in the open access journal, BMC Biology, pinpoints genetic pathways and ge ...


Altruism: Genetic or Cultural Evolution?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- The origins of altruism, the willingness to make personal sacrifices for the benefit of others often unknown to us, has perplexed evolutionary social scientists and biologists for years.


UF releases first citrus cultivar; Sugar Belle packs a tasty punch

Biology / Other

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sugar Belle -- a bold mandarin orange hybrid that ripens in time for the winter holiday market -- will be the first University of Florida-created citrus variety intended for commercial production.


Georgia Tech wins NSF award for next-gen supercomputing

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Georgia Institute of Technology today announced its receipt of a five-year, $12 million Track 2 award from the National Science Foundation's Office of Cyberinfrastructure to lead a partnership of academic, industry and ...


Well-educated women hardest hit by breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Well-educated women and those who live alone are emotionally the hardest hit by breast cancer, according to the findings of a new Australian study announced during October's Breast Cancer Awareness Month.


Swine flu 6 months later: Relief, but winter looms (AP)

Swine flu 6 months later: Relief, but winter looms

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- It was six months ago that scientists discovered an ominous new flu virus, touching off fears of a catastrophic global outbreak that could cause people to drop dead in the streets. Doomsday, of course, ...


Self-sacrifice among strangers has more to do with nurture than nature

Self-sacrifice among strangers has more to do with nurture than nature

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Socially learned behavior and belief are much better candidates than genetics to explain the self-sacrificing behavior we see among strangers in societies, from soldiers to blood donors to ...


More attention, better treatment for concussions (AP)

More attention, better treatment for concussions

Medicine & Health / Health

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

(AP) -- The days of a football player getting his bell rung, taking a whiff of smelling salts and getting back on the field are gone.