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Microsoft, Google in battle to win over students

Technology / Business

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As they plunged into a project on ancient Egypt this fall, Jay Martino's Cupertino (Calif.) Middle School students probably didn't realize they were on the front lines of a high stakes battle between Google and Microsoft.


Scientists use cell phone records to predict spread of malaria

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

University of Florida researchers at work on a malaria elimination study in Africa have become the first to predict the spread of the disease using cell phone records.


Asian carp raises fear and loathing on Great Lakes

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- After nearly four decades as a fishing guide on the Great Lakes, Pat Chrysler has seen enough damage from invasive species to fear what giant, ravenous Asian carp could do to the nation's largest bodies of freshwater.


Parasite evades death by promoting host cell survival

Parasite evades death by promoting host cell survival

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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

Researchers have discovered how the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes Chagas' disease, prolongs its survival in infected cells. A protein on the parasite activates the enzyme Akt, which blocks cell ...


Microsoft unleashes lawsuits, raids in piracy crackdown

Technology / Business

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it has unleashed a series of lawsuits and is cooperating in criminal prosecutions worldwide in an effort to stem piracy of its software.


Scientists show how ubiquitin chains are added to cell-cycle proteins

Scientists show how ubiquitin chains are added to cell-cycle proteins

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have been able to view in detail, and for the first time, the previously mysterious process by which long chains of a protein called ubiquitin ...


New forensic technique gives clues about sharks from bite damage

Biology / Other

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hit-and-run attacks by sharks can be solved with a new technique that identifies the culprits by the unique chomp they put on their victims, according to a University of Florida researcher and shark expert.


What a grind: Bruxism at night likely a sign of stress by day

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

You can practically track Steve Barkley's stress by the level of activity in his temporomandibular joint, or TMJ, the hinge joint that connects the lower jaw to the temporal bone of the skull and helps one chew, talk and ...


Taking a Bite of Antarctic Ice

Taking a Bite of Antarctic Ice

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Scientists with NASA’s IceBite project are heading this week for University Valley, a hanging valley perched more than 1600 feet (more than 1 mile) above sea level in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys. Their ...


Doctors create gum that helps promote tooth health

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

With the help of a gum chomping machine and years of careful chemistry, University of Kentucky researchers have developed a chewing gum that can help replace toothpaste and a toothbrush, thus improving the health of soldiers ...


Rasberry crazy ant

Rapacious Rasberry ants march north

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 10

Poor Texas. First it was killer bees, then fire ants. Now, it's the Rasberry ants.


The terrible teens of T. rex

The terrible teens of T. rex

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

We all know adolescents get testy from time to time. Thank goodness we don't have young tyrannosaurs running around the neighborhood.


Venomous bite: Harmless digestive enzyme evolved into venom in two species

Venomous bite: Harmless digestive enzyme evolved into venom in two species

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists have shown that independent but similar molecular changes turned a harmless digestive enzyme into a toxin in two unrelated species -- a shrew and a lizard -- giving each a venomous ...


Giant Skull of Pliosaur 'Sea Monster' Unearthed in England

Giant Skull of 12m Pliosaur 'Sea Monster' Unearthed in England

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

The fossilised skull of a pliosaur, the largest marine reptile that ever lived, has been discovered along the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.


Seasonal ladybug swarms pester even bug experts

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Pest-control specialist Gene Scholes even gets bugged by them - legions of ladybugs lately swarming his rural Missouri home and other stretches across the country, exploiting gaps in door and window seals for cozier ...