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Study finds pregnant women with prior cesarean choose the delivery method preferred by their doctor

In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in Dallas, Texas, researchers will report findings that women who have undergone one prior delivery via ...

Medicine & Health / Other

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Gradual gains seen in netbooks, Bernstein says

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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Quarter of tweets not worth reading, Twitter users tell researchers

Twitter users choose the microblogs they follow, but that doesn't mean they always like what they get. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Georgia Institute of Technology ...

Technology / Internet

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Apple juggernaut gets little investor respect

(AP) -- Apple is worth $415 billion, putting it neck and neck with Exxon Mobil as the world's most valuable company. But by standard Wall Street measures, its stock is a bargain.

Technology / Business

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Verizon posts $2B 4Q loss on pension adjustment

(AP) -- Verizon paid dearly to put iPhones in the hands of subscribers in the latest quarter, holding back its profits in the hope that its customers will rack up higher monthly bills and stay loyal.

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created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Medical genetics team pinpoints causes of inherited diseases

(Medical Xpress) -- A child’s diagnosis with a congenital deformity or developmental delay raises challenging questions: Could the problem be inherited? What’s the prognosis? If other children are born to the same ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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The machinery of chromatin regulation

Ten years after the human genome was first published, researchers have found new clues into the machinery that influences gene function. The team, led by Bradley Bernstein, an associate professor of pathology ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Why silicon-based aliens would rather eat our cities than us: Thoughts on non-carbon astrobiology

Conventional wisdom has long had it that carbon-based life, so common here on earth, must surely be abundant elsewhere; both in our galaxy and the universe as a whole.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 152

AT&T drops $39B T-Mobile bid; 'duopoly' averted (Update)

AT&T Inc. is hanging up on its $39 billion bid to buy smaller wireless provider T-Mobile USA, nearly four months after the U.S. government raised concerns that the deal would raise prices, reduce innovation ...

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Multisensory integration: When correlation implies causation

In order to get a better picture of our surroundings, the brain has to integrate information from different senses, but how does it know which signals to combine? New research involving scientists from the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Pfizer maneuvers to protect Lipitor from generics

(AP) -- Lipitor is so valuable that its maker, Pfizer Inc., is practically paying people to keep taking the blockbuster cholesterol medicine after generic competition hits the U.S. market this week.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

When errors improve performance: Model describes how experiences influence our perception

During estimation processes we unconsciously make use of recent experiences. Scientists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich and the Bernstein Center Munich asked test subjects to estimate distances in ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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