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Gradual gains seen in netbooks, Bernstein says

Technology / Business

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The market for ultraportable laptop computers, also known as netbooks, is seen as having some of the best potential for the PC market, but is not likely to overwhelm the sector soon, according to a recent report.





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Innovative new Web site empowers young girls to live smoke-free

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 13, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new Web site designed to emphasize smoking prevention for young girls has been launched through Children's Hospital at Dartmouth (CHaD) and Dartmouth Medical School (DMS). The safe, online patient education ...


Pavlov's neurons: Researchers find brain cells that are a key to learning

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 08, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

More than a century after Ivan Pavlov's dog was conditioned to salivate when it heard the sound of a tone prior to receiving food, scientists have found neurons that are critical to how people and animals learn from experience.


New Twist on Favorite X-ray Technique Promises Ultrafast Molecular Studies

New Twist on Favorite X-ray Technique Promises Ultrafast Molecular Studies

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists from the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, including graduate student David Bernstein, have made a promising discovery that a well-known synchrotron technique ...


Penicillin Allergy Not Always Accurate

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you think that you are allergic to penicillin, ask yourself this: How do you know?


Boy came for a liver, but left with a heart

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

It started as something of a medical mystery that, at first, doctors couldn't figure out.


Blood pressure enzyme can have tumor-sensing role

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created Apr 07, 2008 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

By increasing production of a blood pressure-regulating enzyme in mice, researchers have found they can enhance the mouse immune system's ability to sense tumor growth.


Modern human brain

Finding fear: Neuroscientists locate where it is stored in the brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Fear is a powerful emotion and neuroscientists have for the first time located the neurons responsible for fear conditioning in the mammalian brain. Fear conditioning is a form of Pavlovian, or associative, ...


Adolescent alcohol expsoure may lead to long-term risky decision making

Adolescent alcohol expsoure may lead to long-term risky decision making

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Picture this. A bunch of adolescent rats walk into a bar and start consuming Jell-O shots. Lots of them.


Brookhaven radioactive shipments to resume

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created Jul 27, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Radioactive soil shipments from Brookhaven National Laboratory might soon resume under an agreement between New York City and the Long Island Rail Road.


Biologists show that what a neuron can do is a function of mechanical context

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created Feb 07, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

The brain as command center for bodily movement was too simple an idea, thought the Russian physiologist Nicolas Bernstein some 60 years ago. After studying human movements for years, Bernstein pointed out in 1940 that the ...



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