 Billions of particles of anti-matter created in laboratory November 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 92 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Take a gold sample the size of the head of a push pin, shoot a laser through it, and suddenly more than 100 billion particles of anti-matter appear. | |
Bullies may enjoy seeing others in pain November 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Unusually aggressive youth may actually enjoy inflicting pain on others, research using brain scans at the University of Chicago shows. | |
 Social interactions can alter gene expression in the brain, and vice versa November 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Our DNA determines a lot about who we are and how we play with others, but recent studies of social animals (birds and bees, among others) show that the interaction between genes and behavior is more of a ... | |
 Cancer patient genome sequenced for the first time November 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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For the first time, scientists have decoded the complete DNA of a cancer patient and traced her disease - acute myelogenous leukemia - to its genetic roots. A large research team at the Genome Sequencing Center ... | |
Brain recognises verbal 'Oh-shit' wave November 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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It seems that our brain can correct speech errors in the same way that it controls other forms of behaviour. Niels Schiller and Lesya Ganushchak, NWO researchers in Leiden, made this discovery while studying how the brain ... | |
Study Shows Brain Functions Same Way Awake or Asleep November 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Johns Hopkins researchers have found strong evidence supporting the view that the sleeping mind functions the same as the waking mind, a discovery that could significantly alter basic understanding of the ... | |
 A Picture is Worth a Thousand Locksmiths, Computer Scientists Say October 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key. | |
Do cell phones increase brain cancer risk? October 20, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Major research initiatives are needed immediately to assess the possibility that using cellular phones may lead to an increased risk of brain tumors, according to an editorial in the November issue of the journal Surgical ... | |
 W. Virginia town shrugs at poorest health ranking November 16, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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(AP) -- As a portly woman plodded ahead of him on the sidewalk, the obese mayor of America's fattest and unhealthiest city explained why health is not a big local issue. | |
 Google Earth rebuilds ancient Rome online November 13, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Google on Wednesday resurrected ancient Rome online, opening a three-dimensional virtual version of the city for cyber-explorers interested in trips back through time. | |
The relative risk of brain cancer November 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Doctors know that you're at a higher risk for breast, colon and prostate cancers if they've been found in your family. Brain cancer can now be placed on that same list, says a new study by Tel Aviv University and the University ... | |
The miseries of allergies just may help prevent some cancers, study finds November 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- There may be a silver -- and healthy -- lining to the miserable cloud of allergy symptoms: Sneezing, coughing, tearing and itching just may help prevent cancer -- particularly colon, skin, bladder, mouth, ... | |
Physicists create BlackMax to search for dimensions in space at the Large Hadron Collider November 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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A team of theoretical and experimental physicists, with participants from Case Western Reserve University, have designed a new black hole simulator called BlackMax to search for evidence that extra dimensions might exist ... | |
 Searching for primordial antimatter October 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 53 vote(s)
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Scientists are on the hunt for evidence of antimatter - matter's arch nemesis – left over from the very early Universe. New results using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Compton Gamma Ray Observatory ... | |
Cancer cure in a sponge? Institute tests synthetic version of substance October 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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A sponge that lives in the ocean depths off Florida's coastline holds a compound that might fight pancreatic and colon cancers. | |
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