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Rice University software helps ID terrorists carrying out attacks

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rice University researchers have created a sophisticated new computer program that rapidly scans large databases of news reports to determine which terrorists groups might be responsible for new attacks. During the Thanksgiving ...


Food choices evolve through information overload

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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

Ever been so overwhelmed by a huge restaurant menu that you end up choosing an old favourite instead of trying something new?





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Study sheds light on microscopic flower petal ridges

Study sheds light on microscopic flower petal ridges

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 6 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microscopic ridges contouring the surface of flower petals might play a role in flashing that come-hither look pollinating insects can't resist. Michigan State University scientists and colleagues ...


New insight in nerve cell communication

New insight in nerve cell communication

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Communication between nerve cells is vital for our bodies to function. Part of this communication happens through vesicles containing signalling molecules called neurotransmitters. The vesicle fuses with the ...


Fossil shelved for a century reworks carnivore family tree

Fossil shelved for a century reworks carnivore family tree

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created 8 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

More than a hundred years after its discovery, the limbs and vertebrae of a fossil have been pulled off the shelf at the American Museum of Natural History to revise the view of early carnivore lifestyles. ...


How flu succeeds: Investigators identify host factors that help multiple influenza strains thrive

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham), Mount Sinai School of Medicine (Mount Sinai), the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk) and the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation ...


Chicago Cancer Genome Project studies genetics of 1,000 tumors

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created 8 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

No two tumors are alike, but analyzing the genetics of cancers from different parts of the body may reveal surprising details useful for treatment and prevention.


Is nicotinamide overload a trigger for type 2 diabetes?

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created 9 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Facing the increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes worldwide in the past few decades, one may ask what is wrong with humans. Geneticists tell us that the human genome has not changed markedly in such a short time. Therefore, ...


China maintains strict censorship of the Internet

China issues new rules on Internet domain names

Technology / Internet

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China's Internet watchdog issued a new set of rules on domain name registration this week in a bid to curb pornography and illegal content.


Social networking changing the way we travel (AP)

Social networking changing the way we travel

Technology / Internet

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(AP) -- Isahrai Azaria is heading to Austin, Texas, in February, and thanks to Facebook, she already has 40 acquaintances, an invitation to go water tubing, and a line on the best vegetarian lunch place in ...


Digital quantum battery

Digital Quantum Battery Could Boost Energy Density Tenfold

Physics / Quantum Physics

created 11 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists theorize that quantum phenomena could provide a major boost to batteries, with the potential to increase energy density up to 10 times that of lithium ion batteries. According to ...


Researchers crack part of the neuronal code

Researchers crack part of the neuronal code

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created 13 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Prostheses for paralysed patients, communication with patients who have lost all capacity for normal communication - the hopes for modern brain research are high. However, such brain-machine ...



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