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Castaway lizards provide insight into elusive evolutionary process

A University of Rhode Island biologist who released lizards on tiny uninhabited islands in the Bahamas has shed light on the interaction between evolutionary processes that are seldom observed.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study on origin of mutation that causes fatal familiar insomnia

A PhD thesis at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has studied the origin of the mutation that causes Fatal Familiar Insomnia (FFI). In the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country there is a high rate of carriers ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Zuckerberg's focus drives Facebook's ascent

When Mark Zuckerberg showed up to rent Judy Fusco's Los Altos, Calif., house in the fall of 2004, soon after he'd arrived in Silicon Valley, the landlord was immediately struck by his confidence.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 2

'Flipped classroom' teaching model gains an online community

Researchers at Harvard University have launched the Peer Instruction (PI) Network, a new global social network for users of interactive teaching methods.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Komen exec quits after Planned Parenthood flap

(AP) -- An executive at the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity resigned Tuesday over her support to strip Planned Parenthood of funding, but disputed that she was the driving force behind the ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers find additional benefits of cord blood cells in mice modeling ALS

Repeated, low-dose injections of mononuclear cells derived from human umbilical cord blood (MNC hUCB, tradename: U-CORD-CELL) have been found effective in protecting motor neuron cells, delaying disease progression and increasing ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Zuckerberg has iron grip on Facebook

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg will retain an iron grip over the social network even after it becomes a public company.

Technology / Business

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 12

Matching fans to music tops record industry agenda

After a decade-long battle against file-sharing, music and technology giants are now pushing users to share to their hearts' content, with online music recommendations a key issue at the MIDEM trade fair that ...

Technology / Other

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers identify key peptides that could lead to a universal vaccine for influenza

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at the University of Southampton, University of Oxford and Retroscreeen Virology Ltd have discovered a series of peptides, found on the internal structures of influenza viruses that could lead ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Venezuelans line up to switch PIP breast implants

(AP) -- The office of plastic surgeon Ignacio Sousa is so packed that women are lined up outside the door. College students in their 20s, housewives in their 40s, middle-class office workers: nearly all are ...

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created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Quantum physicists shed new light on relation between entanglement and nonlocality

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from the University of Bristol may disprove a long-standing conjecture made by one of the founders of quantum information science: that quantum states featuring ‘positive partial transpose’, ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (24) | comments 35 | with audio podcast

New technology gives implants a protective covering

A technology developed by labseed, an EPFL spin-off, could prevent most breast implant rejections. The final product should be commercially available  as early as 2013.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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