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New data on cancer survival in Europe show more patients are cured

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New data and analyses from a long-running study of cancer survival in Europe have shown that the number of people actually cured of cancer - rather than just surviving for at least five years after diagnosis - is rising steadily.





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Microsoft, China's Hangzhou set 'model city' pact (AP)

Microsoft, China's Hangzhou set 'model city' pact

Technology / Software

created May 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. announced a partnership aimed at helping make the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou a model for innovation and protection of intellectual property, in the company's latest attempt to ...


Scientists prepare the Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM 2) "Poisk"

Rocket with new module for space station blasts off

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Soyuz rocket carrying a new Russian-made module for the International Space Station blasted off on Tuesday from the Baikonur space base in Kazakhstan, television pictures showed.


Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate

Technology / Internet

created Nov 21, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (74) | comments 45

(AP) -- Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online - stoking debate over whether some scientists have ...


This handout photo received in September 2009 courtesy of the University of Connecticut (UConn) shows a skull fragment

Hitler skull fragment in Moscow authentic: FSB

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An officer with the Russian intelligence service the FSB on Monday dismissed a US report suggesting a fragment of Hitler's skull held in Moscow is actually from a woman, insisting their relic is genuine.


Donate your text messages to science: Texto4Science project

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Université de Montréal researcher has a special request for Canadian texters: "Everyone young and old, students and workers, artists and business people, no matter who you are, send me your text messages," ...


States call on EPA for tougher air pollution regulations

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Twelve states and the District of Columbia urged the Environmental Protection Agency Thursday to adopt more rigorous national policies so they can meet federal air pollution reduction requirements for the region.


New system for detection of single atoms

New system for detection of single atoms: Records photon bursts from optical cavity

Physics / General Physics

created May 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 2

Scientists have devised a new technique for real-time detection of freely moving individual neutral atoms that is more than 99.7% accurate and sensitive enough to discern the arrival of a single atom in less ...


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Wikileaks releases pager intercepts from 9/11

Technology / Internet

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Whistleblower website Wikileaks began publishing on Wednesday what it said were hundreds of thousands of pager messages from the day of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.


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

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 3

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, ...


Underground lines that bypass monuments

Underground lines that bypass monuments

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team of mathematicians from the Engineering and Architecture Schools of the University of Seville has created a method to design underground lines whereby a city's historical buildings are unaffected. The ...



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