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Now where was I again?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Although the actual interruption may only last a few moments, the study shows that we then lose more time when we try to find our place and resume the task that was interrupted.


Researchers show brain waves can 'write' on a computer in early tests

Medicine & Health / Research

created 5 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Neuroscientists at the Mayo Clinic campus in Jacksonville, Fla., have demonstrated how brain waves can be used to type alphanumerical characters on a computer screen. By merely focusing on the "q" in a matrix of letters, ...


A scale model of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo

Virgin Galactic readies maiden suborbital flight

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 18 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 8

British billionaire Sir Richard Branson will unveil a craft on Monday that could soon carry tourists on an out-of-this-world trip into space -- for a mere 200,000 dollars.


Single-atom transistor discovered

Scientists build 'single-atom transistor'

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created 18 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (25) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), University of New South Wales (Australia), and University of Melbourne (Australia) have succeeded in building a working transistor, ...


Researchers restore some function to cells from cystic fibrosis patients

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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In an encouraging new development, a team led by Scripps Research Institute scientists has restored partial function to lung cells collected from patients with cystic fibrosis. While there is still much work to be done before ...


GE to buy $345 mln of ads from NBC Universal

Technology / Business

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- General Electric Co. has promised to buy at least $345 million in advertising from NBC Universal over five years after selling a controlling stake in the entertainment company to Comcast Corp., according to a regulatory ...


Cholesterol-lowering drugs also may protect stem cell transplant patients from GVHD

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins are among the most prescribed medicines in the U.S. Now a new study by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center indicates that statins may protect stem cell transplant ...


System 97W's 'castle wall' breached, and opened up to dissipation

System 97W's 'castle wall' breached, and opened up to dissipation

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The "walls" of System 97W have been breached, and residents in the Western Pacific Ocean no longer have a tropical cyclone to worry about today. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center cancelled their "formation ...


Repeat negative CT scan for lung cancer does not encourage ex-smokers to resume the habit

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Assurance of a cancer-free status did not prompt people participating in a long-term computerized tomography (CT) lung-cancer screening program to pick up their cigarettes again, researchers wrote in a study published in ...


New study cites lower rate of quakes along some subduction zones

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most earthquakes occur along fault lines, which form boundaries between two tectonic plates. As the relative speed of the plates around a fault increases, is there a corresponding increase in the number of earthquakes produced ...



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