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Hundreds of gamers flock to Brazil tech fest

Hundreds of geeks and gamers braved Sao Paulo's torrid heat Tuesday to play online video games at the fifth edition of Brazil's Campus Party, an annual, week-long technology fest.

Technology / Software

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Bedwetting can be due to undiagnosed constipation, research shows

Bedwetting isn't always due to problems with the bladder, according to new research by Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Constipation is often the culprit; and if it isn't diagnosed, children and their parents must endure ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New tool enhances view of muscles

Simon Fraser University associate professor James Wakeling is adding to the arsenal of increasingly sophisticated medical imaging tools with a new signal-processing method for viewing muscle activation details that have never ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Diets high in fiber won't protect against diverticulosis

For more than 40 years, scientists and physicians have thought eating a high-fiber diet lowered a person's risk of diverticulosis, a disease of the large intestine in which pouches develop in the colon wall. ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cell's 'battery' found to play central role in neurodegenerative disease

A devastating neurodegenerative disease that first appears in toddlers just as they are beginning to walk has been traced to defects in mitochondria, the 'batteries' or energy-producing power plants of cells.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New gene discovery unlocks mystery to epilepsy in infants

(Medical Xpress) -- A team of Australian researchers has come a step closer to unlocking a mystery that causes epileptic seizures in babies.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Whiff of 'love hormone' helps monkeys show a little kindness

Oxytocin, the "love hormone" that builds mother-baby bonds and may help us feel more connected toward one another, can also make surly monkeys treat each other a little more kindly.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

The biology of politics: Liberals roll with the good, conservatives confront the bad

From cable TV news pundits to red-meat speeches in Iowa and New Hampshire, our nation's deep political stereotypes are on full display: Conservatives paint self-indulgent liberals as insufferably absent on urgent national ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (16) | comments 55 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover new gene that regulates body weight

Abraham Kovoor was studying a brain protein, called RGS9 2, that he had previously related to the involuntary, random and repetitive body movements that are side effects of drugs used to treat Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Novel technique could help boost IVF success and reduce multiple pregnancies

A new technique successfully used in mice to identify embryos likely to result in a successful pregnancy could be used in humans, potentially boosting IVF success rates and helping to reduce the number of multiple births ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Possible new explanation found for sudden demise of Khmer Empire

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Khmer Empire, known to many as the Angkor Civilization, was a society of people that lived for several centuries in Southeast Asia in what is now Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and Viet Nam. ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (20) | comments 30 | with audio podcast report

Researchers discover cause of rare disease

A large, international team of researchers led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco has identified the gene that causes a rare childhood neurological disorder called PKD/IC, or "paroxysmal kinesigenic ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

In the genome, an answer to a mysterious movement disorder

Children with a rather mysterious movement disorder can have hundreds of attacks every day in which they inexplicably make sudden movements or sudden changes in the speed of their movements. New evidence reported in an early ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tireless research reveals secrets of the 'sleep hormone'

A team from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and McGill University has made a major breakthrough by unraveling the inner workings of melatonin, also known as the "sleep hormone." The ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Was Darwin wrong about emotions?

Contrary to what many psychological scientists think, people do not all have the same set of biologically "basic" emotions, and those emotions are not automatically expressed on the faces of those around us, according to ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

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