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Galileo Galilei

Paradigm shift: How Galileo's spy glass upended science

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 4

Today it would hardly pass muster as a child's plaything, but the telescope Galileo used 400 years ago this week to peer into the heavens overturned the foundations of knowledge, changing our perception of ...


Wordless Holocaust memories speak truths for today

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Holocaust has shaped discourse on collective, social and cultural memory, serving both as touchstone and paradigm, according to a study published this month in the journal Memory Studies, published by SAGE.





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Activity of individual brain cells predicts cognitive flexibility

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new study provides intriguing insights into mechanisms of cognitive flexibility at the single cell level. The research, published by Cell Press in the March 26th issue of the journal Neuron, may help to explain how we can ...


Paradigm shift needed to combat drug resistance

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When people travel, bacteria and other infectious agents travel with them. As about a billion people cross international borders each year, many more billions of the bugs come along for the ride.


Paradigm shift: Switch for programmed cell death promotes spread of glioblastoma

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 11, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Malignant tumors have usually lost their ability to destroy themselves by programmed cell death, or apoptosis. Therefore, tumors are often resistant to chemotherapy or radiation therapy, whose effect is based on forcing tumor ...


The iconic smartphone hits stores having already shifted more than 50,000 units in pre-sale orders

iPhone's debut in S.Korea means paradigm shift: experts

Technology / Business

created Nov 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Apple's top selling iPhone made its debut in South Korea Saturday with experts saying the iconic smartphone is likely to serve as a wake-up call for an IT industry basking in an isolated market.


Distributed security

Technology / Internet

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

Could an entirely new approach to online security, based on distributed sanctions, help prevent cybercrime, fraud and identity theft? A report in the International Journal of Intercultural Information Management suggests it cou ...


Infants participate in complex interactions with their parents

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 03, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study in the journal Family Process shows that infants appear to be active participants in complex interactional sequences with their parents far earlier than previously thought. Researchers documented the capacity of thr ...


A paradigm shift in immune response regulation

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Over the past decade various pieces of the puzzle how signal transmission controls immunity have been coming together. Now, in Cell an international team reports a paradigm shift in the regulation of immune response. Their ...


The Green (and blue, red, and white) lights of the future

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 17, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (38) | comments 5

A revolution in energy-efficient, environmentally-sound, and powerfully-flexible lighting is coming to businesses and homes, according to a paper in latest special energy issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's open-a ...


Deep-Sea Microbes May Answer Long-Standing Question About Earth's Nitrogen Cycle

Deep-Sea Microbes May Answer Long-Standing Question About Earth's Nitrogen Cycle

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have identified an unexpected metabolic ability in a symbiotic community of deep-sea microorganisms. It may help solve a lingering mystery about the world's nitrogen cycle.


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Study offers new paradigm on ecosystem ecology

Biology /

created Feb 14, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Predators have considerably more influence than plants over how an ecosystem functions, according to a Yale study published today in Science.



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