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Experts uncover weakness in Internet security

Technology / Internet

created Dec 30, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 1

Independent security researchers in California and researchers at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands, EPFL in Switzerland, and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands have found ...





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Gov't addresses 'robocall' annoyance with new ban

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Americans tired of having their dinners interrupted by phone calls touting car warranties or vacation packages will soon get some relief.


Food security: It starts with seed

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

With each passing year, the human population of our planet continues to expand. This growth has created a wide ranging strain on our water and soil resources, as well as our environment, creating an unprecedented urgency ...


Nano-ruler sets some very small marks

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a new ruler, and even for an organization that routinely deals in superlatives, it sets some records. Designed to be the most accurate commercially available "meter ...


What happens when immune cells just won't die?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

X-linked lymphoproliferative disease (XLP) is a rare inherited immunodeficiency most commonly caused by deficiency in the protein SAP.


Keeping hepatitis C virus at bay after a liver transplant

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

One of the most common reasons for needing a liver transplant is liver failure or liver cancer caused by liver cell infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV). However, in nearly all patients the new liver becomes infected with ...


Toward limitless energy: National Ignition Facility focus of symposium, Aug. 19-20

Toward limitless energy: National Ignition Facility focus of ACS symposium (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (19) | comments 14

Chemists are preparing to play an important but often unheralded role in determining the success of one of the largest and most important scientific experiments in history — next year's initial attempts at ...


Free online toolkit provides standard measures for genome and population studies

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced the release of the first version of a free online toolkit aimed at standardizing measurements of research subjects' ...


The more we get, the more we need: Study shows how to prevent morphine 'tolerance'

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 01, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tolerance to the pain-relieving effects of morphine – which builds rapidly with prolonged use – can be prevented by blocking a key substance that’s formed when the drug is taken, researchers at the Saint Louis University ...


Smoking out the mediators of airway damage caused by pollutants

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created Jun 21, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New insight into how pollution and cigarette smoke damage airways has been provided by Pierangelo Geppetti and colleagues, at the University of Florence, Italy, who studied the effects of such chemicals on guinea pig airways. ...


New function for the protein Bcl-xL: It prevents bone breakdown

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In blood cells, the protein Bcl-xL has a well-characterized role in preventing cell death by a process known as apoptosis. However, its function(s) in osteoclasts, cells that slowly breakdown bone (a process known as resorption), ...



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