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PICO and SALVE: Understanding the subatomic world better

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Two new high-resolution transmission electron microscopes, co-financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), are set to open up new opportunities for research in physics and materials science. ...





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Climate variability and dengue incidence

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Research published this week in PLoS Medicine demonstrates associations between local rainfall and temperature and cases of dengue fever, which affects an estimated fifty million people per year worldwide. But the study ...


India fraud office to prosecute Satyam founder

Technology / Business

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India's fraud office will file charges this month against the founder of outsourcer Satyam after he admitted to falsifying profits in the nation's biggest corporate fraud, a minister said Monday.


Study raises new questions about Merck pill Zetia

Medicine & Health / Medications

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(AP) -- A new study raises fresh concerns about Zetia and its cousin, Vytorin - drugs still taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol, despite questions raised last year about how well they work.


Jellyfish swarm northward in warming world (AP)

Jellyfish swarm northward in warming world

Biology / Ecology

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(AP) -- A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net. Within minutes, hundreds more were being hauled up, a pulsating ...


Largest gene study of childhood IBD identifies 5 new genes

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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In the largest, most comprehensive genetic analysis of childhood-onset inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an international research team has identified five new gene regions, including one involved in a biological pathway ...


Postmortem genetic tests after sudden death may provide less expensive way to identify risk

Medicine & Health / Research

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Targeted postmortem testing to identify genetic mutations associated with sudden unexplained death (SUD) is an effective and less expensive way to determine risk to relatives than comprehensive cardiac testing of first degree ...


MIT scientists pinpoint origin of dissolved arsenic in Bangladesh drinking water

Scientists pinpoint origin of dissolved arsenic in Bangladesh drinking water

Space & Earth / Environment

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Researchers in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering believe they have pinpointed a pathway by which arsenic may be contaminating the drinking water in Bangladesh, a phenomenon that has puzzled ...


Federal agencies not taking chances to keep carp from invading Great Lakes

Biology / Ecology

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A group of federal agencies criticized in the past for failing to move quickly to stop Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes announced Friday that they're taking every precaution to keep them out, even poisoning thousands ...


Hawaii's famed white sandy beaches are shrinking (AP)

Hawaii's famed white sandy beaches are shrinking

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Jenn Boneza remembers when the white sandy beach near the boat ramp in her hometown was wide enough for people to build sand castles.


Wu Chang Gong temple in Taiwan was partially levelled by a powerful earthquake ten years ago

Taiwan to boost quake warning system

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Taiwan plans to build its first undersea seismic station, designed to improve the island's early warning system and save valuable seconds when earthquakes strike, officials said.



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