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Value of volunteering more than economic

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

With rising unemployment and fewer job vacancies, the current financial crisis has seen renewed policy emphasis in both Europe and the UK on volunteering as a route to employment, according to a new report from the Economic ...


Bangladeshi pedestrians speak on their cellular telephones as they walk through a commercial district in Dhaka

Mobile phone English lessons a hit in Bangladesh

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Every morning, Ahmed Shariar Sarwar makes it his daily ritual to call number 3000 on his mobile phone to get lessons in English -- his passport to a better life in impoverished Bangladesh.


Researchers learn why invasive plants are spreading rapidly in forests

Researchers learn why invasive plants are spreading rapidly in forests

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Invasive plants are advancing into Eastern forests at an alarming rate, and the rapid spread has been linked by researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences to forest road ...


Debunking fears: Latino growth does not boost crime

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Rural industries, such as meat-packing and textile manufacturing, create job opportunities that have brought significant numbers of Latino workers and their families to small- and medium-sized towns. This influx of Latino ...


Nanomedicine: ending 'hit and miss' design

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the promises of nanomedicine is the design of tiny particles that can home in on diseased cells and get inside them. Nanoparticles can carry drugs into cells and tag cells for MRI and other diagnostic ...


Rural America more prosperous than expected

Rural America more prosperous than expected

Other Sciences / Economics

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

For many people "rural" is synonymous with low incomes, limited economic opportunity, and poor schools. However, a recent study at the University of Illinois found that much of rural America is actually prosperous, ...


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 ...


Media execs make case for online fees at FTC panel (AP)

Media execs make case for online fees at FTC panel

Technology / Internet

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (6) | comments 11

(AP) -- Media companies need to deliver compelling information on a variety of electronic devices and overcome readers' resistance to paying for material online, news executives said Tuesday at a government-sponsored ...


Golden Oldie: Key Role for Ancient Protein in Algae Photosynthesis

Golden Oldie: Key Role for Ancient Protein in Algae Photosynthesis

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

The discovery that an ancient light harvesting protein plays a pivotal role in the photosynthesis of green algae should help the effort to develop algae as a biofuels feedstock. Researchers with the Lawrence ...


Sponges against cancer

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Deep under the sea, there's a battle of life and death going on, with no holds barred. Sponges and other marine animals which cannot move around might seem to be defenceless against predators. Yet nothing is further from ...


Recession may be over, but recovery will be gradual

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the severe national recession of the past two years finally behind us, the pace of economic recovery will be slow and unemployment will remain high for quite some time, say economists at the University ...


AOL to lay off a third of staff (AP)

AOL offers buyouts to over a third of work force

Technology / Business

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The struggling Internet company AOL plans to shed up to 2,500 jobs - more than a third of its work force - as it prepares to separate from Time Warner and finally sever their ill-fated marriage.


One word: bioplastics

One word: bioplastics

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Every year, more than 250 billion pounds of plastic are produced worldwide. Much of it ends up in the world's oceans, a fact that troubles MIT biology professor Anthony Sinskey.


A second skin

A second skin

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Despite advances in treatment regimens and the best efforts of nurses and doctors, about 70% of all people with severe burns die from related infections. But a revolutionary new wound dressing developed at ...


Of Mutants and Mechanisms: Researching Growth-Regulation Proteins That Underlie Cancer

Of Mutants and Mechanisms: Researching Growth-Regulation Proteins That Underlie Cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) --A University of Arkansas researcher will study potential cancer-causing mutants of a protein involved in cell growth regulation, thanks to a supplemental grant from the National Institutes ...