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YouTube Feather is an "ultra-light watch page"

YouTube makes videos 'Feather' light

Technology / Internet

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

YouTube launched an experimental "Feather" feature on Thursday that slims down online videos for delivery to places where the Internet is unable to handle heavy data traffic.


Scientists identify key factor that controls HIV latency

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes of Virology and Immunology (GIVI) have found another clue that may lead to eradication of HIV from infected patients who have been on antiretroviral therapy. A real cure for HIV has ...





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Sound adds speed to visual perception

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 12, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The traditional view of individual brain areas involved in perception of different sensory stimuli—i.e., one brain region involved in hearing and another involved in seeing—has been thrown into doubt in recent years. A new ...


People overestimate their self-reported sleep times compared to measures by a sleep test

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 15, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Self-reports of total sleep times, both habitually and on the morning after a polysomnogram (PSG), or a sleep test, tend to be higher than objectively measured sleep times, according to a study published in the October 15 ...


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Air pollution, smoking affect latent tuberculosis

Chemistry /

created May 13, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A toxic gas present in air pollution and tobacco smoke plays a significant role in triggering tuberculosis infection, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).


MicroRNAs may be key to HIV's ability to hide, evade drugs

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 30, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Tiny pieces of genetic material called microRNA (miRNA), better known for its roles in cancer, could be a key to unlocking the secrets of how HIV, the AIDS virus, evades detection, hiding in the immune system. Researchers ...


Discovery of protein that reactivates herpes simplex virus helps solve medical mystery

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Research in PLoS Pathogens appears to solve a long standing medical mystery by identifying a viral protein, VP16, as the molecular key that prompts herpes simplex virus (HSV) to exit latency and cause recurrent disease.


Moderate exercise can improve the sleep quality of insomnia patients

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 11, 2008 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

An acute session of moderate aerobic exercise, but not heavy aerobic or moderate strength exercises, can reduce the anxiety state and improve the sleep quality of insomnia patients, according to a research abstract that will ...


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Intel Delivers Industry's First 34-Nanometer NAND Flash Solid-State Drives

Electronics / Hardware

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 0

Intel is moving to a more advanced, 34- nanometer manufacturing process for its NAND flash-based Solid State Drive (SSD) products, which are an alternative to a computer's hard drive. The move to 34nm will ...


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Excessive gaming associated with poor sleep hygiene and increased sleepiness

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 5

Computer/console gamers who play for more than seven hours a week and who identify their gaming as an addiction sleep less during the weekdays and experience greater sleepiness than casual or non-gamers, according ...


Better sleep is associated with improved academic success

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Getting more high-quality sleep is associated with better academic performance. according to new research. The positive relationship is especially relevant to performance in math.


'Shock and kill' research gives new hope for HIV-1 eradication

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Latent HIV genes can be 'smoked out' of human cells. The so-called 'shock and kill' technique, described in a preclinical study in BioMed Central's open access journal Retrovirology, might represent a new milestone along ...



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