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Omega-3 fatty acids may reduce risk of colon cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, primarily found in fish and seafood, may have a role in colorectal cancer prevention, according to results presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers in Cancer Prevention ...


New platinum compound shows promise in tumor cells

New platinum compound shows promise in tumor cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created 17 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT chemists have developed a new platinum compound that is as powerful as the commonly used anticancer drug cisplatin but better able to destroy tumor cells.


Research is shattering traditioinal notions of laser limits

Research is shattering traditioinal notions of laser limits

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created 17 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Air Force Office of Scientific Research and National Science Foundation-funded professor, Dr. Xiang Zhang has demonstrated at the University of California, Berkeley the world's smallest semiconductor laser, ...


A see-through surprise: Scientists make solid material transparent to terahertz waves

Physics / Condensed Matter

created 18 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 1

Very often in science, the unexpected discovery turns out to be the most significant. Rice University Professor Junichiro Kono and his team weren't looking for a breakthrough in the transmission of terahertz signals, but ...


Super cool atom thermometer

Super cool atom thermometer

Physics / General Physics

created 18 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

As physicists strive to cool atoms down to ever more frigid temperatures, they face the daunting task of developing new, reliable ways of measuring these extreme lows. Now a team of physicists has devised ...


Delivering medicine directly into a tumor

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Researchers at Burnham Institute for Medical Research at University of California, Santa Barbara have identified a peptide (a chain of amino acids) that specifically recognizes and penetrates cancerous tumors but not normal ...


Antidepressant Can Change Patient's Personality

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 19 hours ago | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The nation is still debating the effects of antidepressant medications on brain chemistry almost 20 years after publication of the best-seller "Listening to Prozac." Though selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors ...


Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search

Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search

Physics / General Physics

created 20 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 21

(PhysOrg.com) -- New high-energy particle research by a team working with data from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory further heightens the uncertainty about the exact nature of a key theoretical component ...


Brightness variations of sun-like stars: The mystery deepens

Brightness variations of sun-like stars: The mystery deepens

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- An extensive study made with ESO's Very Large Telescope deepens a long-standing mystery in the study of stars similar to the Sun. Unusual year-long variations in the brightness of about one ...


Cyber hacking could be a thing of the past

Cyber hacking could be a thing of the past

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- High-profile websites are constantly under threat from hackers attempting to paralyse their websites but new research could make such attacks computationally impossible. This research will ...



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