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Russian railways enter modern age with new express

Famed for the legendary trains that clank across seven time zones on its Trans-Siberian railroad, Russia this week entered the modern railway age with its first high-tech express train.

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

German 'science train': next stop Shanghai 2010?

How will we feed nine billion people in the future? Can we ever have a disease-free world? Can robots play football?

Other Sciences / Other

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Obama vows to fast track high speed rail

US President Barack Obama Thursday called for a US high speed rail service to rival the express trains of France, Japan, Spain and China, highlighting a 13 billion dollar government funding boost.

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created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Under the electron microscope -- A 3-D image of an individual protein

(PhysOrg.com) -- When Gang Ren whirls the controls of his cryo-electron microscope, he compares it to fine-tuning the gearshift and brakes of a racing bicycle. But this machine at the U.S. Department of Energy ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Young Americans recognize the impact of innovation on US economy according to survey

The 2012 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index , announced today, indicates that young Americans are acutely aware of the importance of invention and innovation in their personal lives, and within the context of the ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Aspirin merits testing for prevention of cervical cancer in HIV-infected women

Research conducted by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center global health investigators and cancer specialists in New York, Qatar and Haiti suggests that aspirin should be evaluated for its ability to ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hospitalized patients are very accepting of nurse-delivered brief alcohol interventions

The U.S. Joint Commission recently approved new hospital accreditation measures related to alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for all hospitalized patients. Yet little is known about ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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New treatment for chronic depression targets personality style

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from the University of Southampton, in collaboration with psychologists from six other universities, have started a study to assess the impact of a new psychological therapy for chronic, or ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Protein changes identified in early-onset Alzheimer's

(Medical Xpress) -- With a lack of effective treatments for Alzheimer's, most of us would think long and hard about whether we wanted to know years in advance if we were genetically predisposed to develop the disease. For ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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CMU will tap advanced computer methods to help doctors make sense of their patients' DNA

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University say advanced computational tools will be the key to a new research project that, if successful, could enable doctors to routinely use information extracted from a patient's DNA to ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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From neurology to psychiatry: Bullock probes mysterious seizures

Your emotional state has powerful control over your body — and Kim Bullock, MD, knows just how strong that hold can be. The Stanford psychiatrist works with patients who experience seizures that aren’t generated ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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

Tracking genes' remote controls

As an embryo develops, different genes are turned on in different cells, to form muscles, neurons and other bodily parts. Inside each cell's nucleus, genetic sequences known as enhancers act like remote controls, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

A call for an evolved understanding of emotion

(Medical Xpress) -- Many scientists believe that all people experience and express the same biologically “basic” emotions — an idea they have attributed to evolutionist Charles Darwin and one ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast


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