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Mammography use among women younger than 40 years old differ between minority populations

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breast cancer screening guidelines generally recommend mammography begin at age 40. However, based on prior national research, an estimated 34 percent of non-Hispanic black women, 30 percent of non-Hispanic white women and ...


No need to split twins for good grades: study

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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Whether or not twins are separated at school, a subject of debate that is often a dilemma for parents, has no affect on their grades, according to a Dutch study published Tuesday.


ARS Scientists Help Fight Damaging Moth in Africa

ARS Scientists Help Fight Damaging Moth in Africa

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have launched a preemptive strike to combat the false codling moth, a major pest in its native Africa.


A new kind of micro-mobility: Moving tiny particles using magnetic fields

A new kind of micro-mobility: Moving tiny particles using magnetic fields (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created 7 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new microscopic system devised by researchers in MIT's department of materials science and engineering could provide a novel method for moving tiny objects inside a microchip, and could also provide new ...


A social network that ballooned

A social network that ballooned

Technology / Internet

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- On Tuesday, Dec. 1, members of the MIT Media Lab’s Human Dynamics Laboratory received an e-mail with a $40,000 proposition. The U.S. Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects ...


Craigslist exec told Whitman had 2 sides

Technology / Internet

created 9 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The eBay executive who led the online auction site's efforts to gain a minority stake in Craigslist warned that former eBay CEO Meg Whitman had a Jekyll-and-Hyde personality, the CEO of Craigslist said Monday.


Disagreement Over Mammography Task Force Study

Disagreement Over Mammography Task Force Study

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When a government-appointed panel of experts released new guidelines last month calling for fewer routine mammograms, they were met with public confusion, political outrage, and a media storm that left women ...


Math goes viral: Researchers make math and science real for high-school students

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created 12 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

At least a dozen Alberta high-school calculus classrooms were exposed to the West Nile virus recently.


Portions of Arctic coastline eroding, no end in sight, says new CU-Boulder study

Portions of Arctic coastline eroding, no end in sight, says new study

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 3 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The northern coastline of Alaska midway between Point Barrow and Prudhoe Bay is eroding by up to one-third the length of a football field annually because of a "triple whammy" of declining sea ice, warming ...


Computing with a wave of the hand

Computing with a wave of the hand (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- The iPhone’s familiar touch screen display uses capacitive sensing, where the proximity of a finger disrupts the electrical connection between sensors in the screen. A competing approach, ...



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