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'Touch' TV series uses numbers to connect people

Think about all of the different people that you come in contact with on any given day: family, friends, coworkers and strangers going about their lives. The fateful hijacking of Flight 93 on 9/11 showed how ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Hackers send fake terror alerts from NBC's Twitter

(AP) -- A hacker broke into the Twitter account of NBC News and sent out a handful of false tweets about a suspected hijacking and a plane attack at ground zero just days before the tenth anniversary of 9/11.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Botnet Hijacking Steals 70GB of Data

(PhysOrg.com) -- Security researchers have uncovered one of the most notorious zombie networks, the Torpig botnet, by collecting 70GB of data that was stolen in just 10 days.

Technology / Internet

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 weblog




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Low dopamine levels during withdrawal promote relapse to smoking

Mark Twain said, "Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times." Many smokers would agree that it's difficult to stay away from cigarettes. A new study in Biological Ps ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tomato nutrient may intercept cancer growth

(Medical Xpress) -- A nutrient in cooked tomatoes has been shown in laboratory studies to slow the growth of or even kill prostate cancer cells.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Watching the engine of life, in real time, to understand how things go wrong

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ruben Gonzalez views ribosomes—the minute particles in cells that make proteins—as the “machines” of life. Naturally, the associate professor of chemistry is interested ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study offers new information for flu fight

Influenza virus can rapidly evolve from one form to another, complicating the effectiveness of vaccines and anti-viral drugs used to treat it. By first understanding the complex host cell pathways that the flu uses for replication, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Envelope for an artificial cell

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists have taken an important step in making artificial life forms from scratch. Using a novel chemical reaction, they have created self-assembling cell membranes, the structural envelopes ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

'Anonymous' hackers briefly hijack French Elysee website

The shadowy online hackers group Anonymous briefly hijacked the French presidential website on Friday in apparent retaliation for the US shutdown of file-sharing site Megaupload.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research confirms novel strategy in fight against infectious diseases

New research shows that infectious disease-fighting drugs could be designed to block a pathogen's entry into cells rather than to kill the bug itself.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists 'hijack' bacterial immune system

The knowledge that bacteria possess adaptable immune systems that protect them from individual viruses and other foreign invaders is relatively new to science, and researchers across the globe are working to learn how these ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

No more free rides for 'piggy-backing' viruses

Scientists have determined the structure of the enzyme endomannosidase, significantly advancing our understanding of how a group of devastating human viruses including HIV and Hepatitis C hijack human enzymes to reproduce ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hepatitis C virus survives by hijacking liver microRNA: study

Viral diseases are still one of the biggest challenges to medical science. Thanks to thousands of years of co-evolution with humans, their ability to harness the biology of their human hosts to survive and thrive makes them ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 02, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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