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NASA Chooses Three Finalists for Future Space Science Mission to Venus, an Asteroid or the Moon

NASA Chooses Three Finalists for Future Space Science Mission to Venus, an Asteroid or the Moon

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 10 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has selected three proposals as candidates for the agency's next space venture to another celestial body in our solar system. The final project selected in mid-2011 may provide a better ...


Looks Can Be Deceiving

Looks can be deceiving: Lizards acquire the same camouflaging adaptation in different ways

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 11 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Does it matter if nature solves the same problem multiple ways? A NSF-supported study of lizard populations in White Sands, New Mexico has helped researcher Erica Rosenblum of the University ...


South African doctor sees drug-resistant HIV

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created 11 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- It's 8 a.m. and Dr. Theresa Rossouw is already drowning behind a cluttered desk of handwritten HIV charts - new, perplexing cases of patients whose lifesaving drugs have turned against them.


NTT DoCoMo is a Japan's mobile telephone giant with 55 million subscribers

Japan's mobile phone marvels go back to the future

Technology / Hi Tech

created 11 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In the Japan of 2020 a stressed-out salaryman may unwind from his hectic futuristic lifestyle by time-travelling back a few centuries and taking a virtual stroll through medieval Tokyo.


Scientists develop technique to determine ethnic origin of stem cell lines

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 22 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

An international team of scientists led by researchers at The Scripps Research Institute has developed a straightforward technique to determine the ethnic origin of stem cells.


Chlorophylls effective against aflatoxin

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created 23 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study has found that chlorophyll and its derivative chlorophyllin are effective in limiting the absorption of aflatoxin in humans. Aflatoxin is produced by a fungus that is a contaminant of grains including corn, peanuts ...


Study Puts Bariatric Surgery for Type 2 Diabetes to the Test

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A multi-disciplinary team of Penn researchers, including diabetes, weight loss and bariatric surgery experts, are conducting a study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to determine if bariatric ...


Blood test that provides prior blood sugar average now recommended for diabetes screening, diagnosis (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an annual supplement to the journal Diabetes Care, published Dec. 29 by the American Diabetes Association, the A1C test is given a prominent role in the 2010 guidelines for diabetes screening, diagnosis ...


COMPASS points to weight loss

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Obesity researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are recruiting families with overweight children for a study to help those kids, and their parents, lose weight. The two-year study, ...


A man passes through a high-tech explosive-detection machine at John F. Kennedy airport in New York

After foiled US plane attack, scanners revisited

Technology / Other

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

As US lawmakers demand to know how a would-be attacker smuggled explosives aboard a plane on Christmas Day, the use of body scanners at airport security points is likely to be revisited.



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