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Snapshot of a recession

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A revealing snapshot of the effect of the downturn in the UK economy on the small business sector has been uncovered by an online survey produced by The University of Nottingham Institute for Enterprise and ...





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Thinking crickets -- 'cognitive' processes underlie memory recall in crickets

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Activation of two different kinds of neurons is necessary for appetitive and aversive memory recall in crickets. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology blocked octopaminergic (OA-ergic) and dopaminergic (DA-er ...


Internet search process affects cognition, emotion

Internet search process affects cognition, emotion

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Nearly 73 percent of all American adults use the Internet on a daily basis, according to a 2009 Pew Internet and American Life Project survey. Half of these adults use the Web to find information via search ...


New culprit for viral infections among elderly -- an overactive immune response

New culprit for viral infections among elderly -- an overactive immune response

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that exaggerated responses of the immune system explain why the elderly succumb to viral infections more readily than younger people. Published in the November ...


How can scientists measure evolutionary responses to climate change?

Biology / Evolution

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

As global temperatures continue to rise scientists are presented with the complex challenge of understanding how species respond and adapt. In a paper published in Insect Conservation and Diversity, Dr Francisco Rodriguez-Trelles and Dr ...


Chronic drinking causes more liver injury than acute or binge drinking

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Alcohol consumption is known to cause liver damage. Yet the specifics of alcohol-induced liver injury can differ depending on the pattern of drinking. New rodent findings show that chronic drinking causes more injury - ...


Nanodisk Fingerprint

Capture of nanomagnetic 'fingerprints' a boost for next-generation information storage media

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

In the race to develop the next generation of storage and recording media, a major hurdle has been the difficulty of studying the tiny magnetic structures that will serve as their building blocks. Now a team ...


Drug has potential to prevent alcoholics from relapsing

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jul 30, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

An experimental drug that blocks the euphoric feelings associated with drinking may prevent alcoholics from relapsing. The finding, the result of a mouse study at Oregon Health & Science University, could lead to human clinical ...


On the trail of a vaccine for Lyme disease: Yale researchers target tick saliva

On the trail of a vaccine for Lyme disease: Researchers target tick saliva

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A protein found in the saliva of ticks helps protect mice from developing Lyme disease, Yale researchers have discovered. The findings, published in the November 19 issue of Cell Host & Microbe, may spur d ...


Sights and sounds of emotion trigger big brain responses

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the University of York have identified a part of the brain that responds to both facial and vocal expressions of emotion.


Children with autism show slower pupil responses, MU study finds

Children with autism show slower pupil responses, study finds

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Autism affects 1 in 150 children today, making it more common than childhood cancer, juvenile diabetes and pediatric AIDS combined. Despite its widespread effect, autism is not well understood and there are ...



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