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Cancer rate 4 times higher in children with juvenile arthritis

New research reports that incident malignancy among children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is four times higher than in those without the disease. Findings now available in Arthritis & Rheumatism, a journal publis ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created 19 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Building a 'blind-friendly' Internet

Rakesh Babu demonstrates how a blind person uses the Internet.

Technology / Internet

created 14 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Darpa to develop mobile millimeter-wave backhaul networks

Providing high-bandwidth communications for troops in remote forward operating locations is not only critical but also challenging because a reliable infrastructure optimized for remote geographic areas does ...

Technology / Telecom

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Packard Children's has smallest child yet to get pacemaker

Jaya Maharaj was 15 minutes old when she was sent to surgery at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and given a pacemaker that saved her life. The tiny girl — born nine weeks early, weighing 3.5 pounds, ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created 14 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Writing a new code for life?

On "Star Trek, the aliens often look so human that crew members fall in love with them. But in real life, scientists in the field known as astrobiology can't be sure alien life would even be carbon-based like us, or use DNA ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created 9 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

The developing genome? More than just packaging, the genome affects the way our genes change and develop

Since Charles Darwin first put forth the theory of evolution, scientists have been trying to unlock the mysteries of genetics. But research on the genome — the organism's entire hereditary package encoded in DNA and ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created 9 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Why looks can be deceiving: New research points to brain regions that recognize facial expressions

It's Valentine's Day, he forgot to bring flowers, and somehow that painfully sad look on her face is simply not registering in his mind. Could be it's a problem in his prefrontal cortex?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 9 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Blood from periodontal disease can be used to screen for diabetes

Oral blood samples drawn from deep pockets of periodontal inflammation can be used to measure hemoglobin A1c, an important gauge of a patient's diabetes status, an NYU nursing-dental research team has found. Hemoglobin A1c ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created 8 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists deploy lasers, GPS technology to improve snow measurements

- Equipped with specialized lasers and GPS technology, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) are working with colleagues to solve a critical wintertime weather mystery: how to accurately ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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Leading the quest to crack cosmological mysteries

Sometimes a scientist can only laugh in the face of a seemingly insurmountable challenge.

Physics / General Physics

created 7 hours ago | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 12 | with audio podcast


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