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Study: 'Smart drug' Provigil may be habit-forming (AP)

Study: 'Smart drug' Provigil may be habit-forming

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A so-called "smart drug" popular with young people may carry more of an addiction risk than thought, a small government study suggests. Scans of 10 healthy men showed that the prescription drug Provigil ...


Molecules self-assemble to provide new therapeutic treatments

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers in the laboratory of Samuel I. Stupp at Northwestern University have an interesting approach for tackling some major health problems: gather raw materials and then let them self-assemble into structures that can ...


Experimental TB drug explodes bacteria from the inside out

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 27, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 1

An international team of biochemists has discovered how an experimental drug unleashes its destructive force inside the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB). The finding could help scientists develop ways to treat dormant ...





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Wild chimps have near human understanding of fire, says study

Wild chimps have near human understanding of fire, study says

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The use and control of fire are behavioral characteristics that distinguish humans from other animals. Now, a new study by Iowa State University anthropologist Jill Pruetz reports that savanna ...


Study shows loss of 15-42 percent of mammals in North America

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (8) | comments 5

If the planet is headed for another mass extinction like the previous five, each of which wiped out more than 75 percent of all species on the planet, then North American mammals are one-fifth to one-half the way there, according ...


New research may help to clean drainage from abandoned mines

New research may help to clean drainage from abandoned mines

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a quiet green glen near Ashville, Pa., lies a rust-colored pond. A deep, rectangular hole in the ground, it somewhat resembles an Olympic-sized pool. Few people, however, would make the ...


Device connected to tongue designed to help blind perceive images

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

An experimental device that uses the tongue instead of the eyes to "see" could be on the market next year, and a blind Fresno, Calif., teen hopes to be among the first to take one home.


Cold war - Fighting the threat of latent TB

Cold war - Fighting the threat of latent TB (w/ Podcast)

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are making breakthroughs in studying the latent form of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This work could revolutionise the treatment of TB.


Insomnia symptoms linked with medical complaints in young school-aged children

Medicine & Health / Health

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

A study in the Dec. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine indicates that significant associations exist between parent-reported insomnia symptoms and medical complaints of gastrointestinal regurgitation and he ...


Consumers overpredict the use of holiday gifts

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Before you add that fancy "it" gadget to your holiday wish list, you should know you're not going to use it as much as you think you will. For a better estimate of the use you'll get out of your new toy, ask a stranger.


Fishing the online stream

Technology / Internet

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

On West Lancaster Avenue in Wayne, Pa., local businessman Robert Lail runs what he calls "YouTube for business."


Holiday shopping off to mildly encouraging start (AP)

Holiday shopping off to mildly encouraging start

Technology / Business

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- After shoppers gave retailers a somewhat encouraging start to the holiday shopping season, stores now turn their attention to the online promotions known as Cyber Monday and bringing back customers ...


Tactile input affects what we hear: study

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Humans use their whole bodies, not just their ears, to understand speech, according to University of British Columbia linguistics research.



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