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Primary care program helps obese teen girls manage weight, improve body image and behavior

Teenage girls gained less weight, improved their body image, ate less fast food, and had more family meals after participating in a 6- month program that involved weekly peer meetings, consultations with primary care providers ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created 11 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tackling financial exploitation of elderly people

Professionals who are in close contact with elderly people could soon be in a better position to spot if they are being financially exploited, for example through a lottery scam or by a deceitful relative draining the bank ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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

High-quality child care found good for children -- and their mothers

High-quality early child care isn't important just for children, but for their mothers, too. That's the conclusion of a new study by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin; the study appears in the journal Child De ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A bronze matryoshka doll: The metal in the metal in the metal

A doll in a doll, and then one more, enveloping them from the outside – this is how Thomas Faessler explains his molecule. He packs one atom in a cage within an atom framework. With their large surfaces ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

East views the world differently to West

Cultural differences between the West and East are well documented, but a study shows that concrete differences also exist in how British and Chinese people recognise people and the world around them. Easterners really do ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 8

PML's Pernstich develops open-source software to automate test equipment

A free, easily customizable software program for automating test equipment via GPIB or RS232 bus may sound too good to be true, especially for smaller companies, graduate students, and hobbyists or for day-to-day ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Genetic information migrates from plant to plant

Plant scientists were confounded by the fact that the DNA extracted from the plants’ green chloroplasts sometimes showed the greatest similarities when related species grew in the same area. They tried ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

GPS shoe lets families keep track of elderly relatives

A Teaneck, N.J., shoe maker has joined with a California technology company to create a shoe that uses GPS technology that records where a wearer walks - and can send alerts to caregivers if someone suffering from Alzheimer's ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New drug extends survival in patients with drug-resistant prostate cancer

A new drug, MDV3100, is improving the survival rate in men with advanced prostate cancer, results of a large, phase III clinical trial show. The drug is designed to block a type of cellular receptor that drives progression ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A new system of stereo cameras detects pedestrians from within the car

A team of German researchers, with the help of a lecturer at the University of Alcalá (UAH, Spain), has developed a system that locates pedestrians in front of the vehicle using artificial vision. Soon ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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