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Tailor-made search tools for the Web

For companies, customer feedback is a matter of strategic importance. Smart apps for the semantic analysis of user opinions from the Web help businesses keep an eye on feedback. Users benefit as well: with ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Potential for incorrect relationship identification in new forensic familial searching techniques

New research suggests that unrelated individuals may be mistakenly identified as genetic family members due to inaccurate genetic assumptions. This is particularly relevant when considering familial searching: a new technique ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Hubble zooms in on a magnified galaxy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to the presence of a natural "zoom lens" in space, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope got a uniquely close-up look at the brightest "magnified" galaxy yet discovered.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Genes linked to cancer could be easier to detect with liquid lasers

Using a liquid laser, University of Michigan researchers have developed a better way to detect the slight genetic mutations that might predispose a person to a particular type of cancer or other diseases.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Inherited risk factors for childhood leukemia are more common in Hispanic patients

Hispanic children are more likely than those from other racial and ethnic backgrounds to be diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and are more likely to die of their disease. Work led by St. Jude Children's Research ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fear dementia? Your diet, weight more important than genes, experts say

Anyone who has a close relative with Alzheimer's shares the same worry: Am I next? However, a growing body of research indicates that our lifestyles - particularly what we eat and whether we're obese - play a greater role ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

High school whiz kids may face reading comprehension issues in university

Everyone knows a high-school high achiever who has floundered in university. Now U of A researcher and Reading Research Lab director George Georgiou may have an explanation for the problem.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

College cuts odds for marriage among disadvantaged

(PhysOrg.com) -- For those with few social advantages, college is a prime pathway to financial stability, but it also unexpectedly lowers their odds of ever marrying, according to an analysis by Cornell sociologist Kelly ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Poorest smokers face toughest odds for kicking the habit

Quitting smoking is never easy. However, when you're poor and uneducated, kicking the habit for good is doubly hard, according to a new study by a tobacco dependence researcher at The City College of New York (CCNY).

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hands-on learning, mentoring keys to 'diversifying science'

Richard Losick got hooked on science while writing his senior thesis as a Princeton University undergraduate in 1965.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Europe's 'Big Bang' observatory completes cosmic survey

A 900-million-dollar orbital observatory has completed the biggest-ever search for remnants of the "Big Bang" that created the Universe, the European Space Agency said on Monday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 12

The Milky Way contains at least 100 billion planets according to survey

(PhysOrg.com) -- Our Milky Way galaxy contains a minimum of 100 billion planets according to a detailed statistical study based on the detection of three extrasolar planets by an observational technique called ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

An apple a day isn't enough

Adults from 30 to 60 years old, especially those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, aren't consuming the daily recommended levels of fruits and vegetables. Quebecers, however, eat more of nature's produce than their fellow ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Genetic composition of multicentric lung tumors appears to be similar

Multicentric carcinogenesis with the same genetic mutation appears to occur in lung adenocarcinoma, according to data presented at the AACR-IASLC Joint Conference on Molecular Origins of Lung Cancer: Biology, Therapy and ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Genetic predisposition to disease common in two supercentenarians: study

The first-ever published whole-genome sequences of not just one, but two supercentenarians, aged more than 114 years, reveal that both unusual and common genetic phenomena contribute to the genetic background of extreme human ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast