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Improving the security of Internet exchanges

(PhysOrg.com) -- TLS is the main protocol used today to secure exchanges over the Internet. The protocol has been subject to attacks in recent years, resulting in identity theft and data tampering. To address these problems, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Ongoing research analyzes formulas, mother's milk

Soy-based baby formula nourishes millions of America's infants. Now, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)-funded scientist Jin-Ran Chen is taking a close look at the effects that soy formula, cow's-milk formula, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Increase dietary fiber, decrease disease: Review confirms benefits of more roughage in the diet

We should all be eating more dietary fiber to improve our health - that's the message from a health review by scientists in India. The team has looked at research conducted into dietary fiber during the last few decades across ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ignorance is bliss when it comes to challenging social issues

The less people know about important complex issues such as the economy, energy consumption and the environment, the more they want to avoid becoming well-informed, according to new research published by the American Psychological ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Alcoholism is linked to higher rates of general and cancer-related deaths

Alcohol consumption causes approximately four percent of all deaths worldwide and is responsible for roughly five percent of global diseases. A study of alcohol consumption in Tuscany, Italy has found that alcoholics have ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Could a tumor suppressor also fight obesity?

The hormone receptor guanylyl cyclase C (GCC) has been established as a suppressor of colorectal cancer tumors, but new evidence from Thomas Jefferson University suggests it may also help fight one of the country's biggest ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

IBM pursues chips that behave like brains

Computers, like humans, can learn. But when Google tries to fill in your search box based only on a few keystrokes, or your iPhone predicts words as you type a text message, it's only a narrow mimicry of what ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 18

Doctors aim to stop pancreatic cancer before it forms

Seeing a chance to stop one of the most deadly kinds of cancer before it forms, doctors at hospitals around the nation are focusing on the common pancreatic cyst.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Are drinking guidelines adequate regarding the risk of cancer?

A group of French scientists (from the Unit of Research on Nutritional Epidemiology, French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Bobigny, France; the French Institute for Prevention and Health Education, St. Denis, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

From pre-gut cells to glory

For all animals, development begins with the embryo. It is here that uniform cells divide and diversify, and blueprints are laid for future structures, like skeletal and digestive systems. Although biologists ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 03, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New study aims to help preserve plants, animals caught between forest 'fragments'

Maintaining the world's threatened animal and plant species may rest with something as simple as knowing how far a bird can fly before it must answer nature's call.

Biology / Ecology

created May 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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