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Text messaging may help children fight off obesity

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 11, 2008 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Many children love sending and receiving text messages through their cell phones – sometimes to the great annoyance of their parents.





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'Cross-talk' mechanism contributes to colorectal cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created 14 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health have identified a molecular mechanism that allows two powerful signaling pathways to interact and begin a process leading to colorectal ...


Invisibility visualized: German team unveils new software for rendering cloaked objects

Invisibility visualized: German team unveils new software for rendering cloaked objects

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created 18 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists and curiosity seekers who want to know what a partially or completely cloaked object would look like in real life can now get their wish -- virtually. A team of researchers at the ...


Researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics

Researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics

Physics / Condensed Matter

created 20 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

There is good news for the global effort to reduce the amount of lead in the environment and for the growing array of technologies that rely upon the piezoelectric effect. A lead-free alternative to the current ...


No need to fast for cholesterol test

Medicine & Health / Research

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Patients do not need to fast before having their cholesterol tested, a major study has found.


Mysterious X-rays from a Nearby Galaxy

Mysterious X-rays from a Nearby Galaxy

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 21 hours ago | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- The nucleus of an active galaxy, an AGN, contains a massive black hole that is vigorously accreting material. In the process it typically ejects jets of particles and radiates brightly at ...


Chromosomes dance and pair up on the nuclear membrane

Chromosomes dance and pair up on the nuclear membrane (w/ Video)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Meiosis - the pairing and recombination of chromosomes, followed by segregation of half to each egg or sperm cell - is a major crossroads in all organisms reproducing sexually. Yet, how the ...


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Elephant seals take naps while diving

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study may have solved the long-standing question of how elephants sleep during their long migrations at sea, when they can be away from land for up to eight months.


Gene knockout may cheer up mice

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Removing the PKCI/HINT1 gene from mice has an anti-depressant-like and anxiolytic-like effect. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience applied a battery of behavioral tests to the PKCI/HINT1 knocko ...


New study describes connections between Circadian and metabolic systems

Biology / Other

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A paper by University of Notre Dame biologist Giles Duffield and a team of researchers offers new insights into a gene that plays a key role in modulating the body's Circadian system and may also simultaneously modulate its ...


Doctors embrace social networking

Technology / Hi Tech

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In the waiting room, the patient's family members circled a Blackberry. About every 15 minutes, Dr. Carlos Wolf of Miami Plastic Surgery gave them a few keystrokes of information about how the patient was doing.



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