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Research is defined as human activity based on intellectual application in the investigation of matter. The primary purpose for applied research is discovering, interpreting, and the development of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge on a wide variety of scientific matters of our world and the universe. Research can use the scientific method, but need not do so.

Scientific research relies on the application of the scientific method, a harnessing of curiosity. This research provides scientific information and theories for the explanation of the nature and the properties of the world around us. It makes practical applications possible. Scientific research is funded by public authorities, by charitable organisations and by private groups, including many companies. Scientific research can be subdivided into different classifications according to their academic and application disciplines.

Historical research is embodied in the historical method.

The term research is also used to describe an entire collection of information about a particular subject.

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'Digging into Data Challenge' grant awarded

Technology / Computer Sciences

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

A professor at Tufts University will lead a team of international researchers to explore how humanities scholars can use data analysis to track topics about the Greco-Roman world as they appear in a million documents, spanning ...





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Researchers prove key cancer theory

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mayo Clinic researchers have proven the longstanding theory that changes in the number of whole chromosomes -- called aneuploidy -- can cause cancer by eliminating tumor suppressor genes. Their findings, which appear in the ...


Researchers demonstrate that stem cells can be engineered to kill HIV

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA AIDS Institute researchers have for the first time demonstrated that human blood stem cells can be engineered to target and kill HIV-infected cells.


British researchers: little evidence Tamiflu works

Medicine & Health / Medications

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(AP) -- British researchers say there is little evidence Tamiflu stops complications in healthy people who catch the flu, though public health officials contend the swine flu drug reduces flu hospitalizations and deaths.


Hope for men with nonobstructive infertility

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It has been thought that men with non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA), a lack of sperm in the semen not caused by an obstruction within the reproductive system, are poor candidates for IVF. Now, researchers writing in the open ...


Researchers study psychological impact of casual sex

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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University of Minnesota Project Eating Among Teens (EAT) researchers have found that young adults engaging in casual sexual encounters do not appear to be at increased risk for harmful psychological outcomes as compared to ...


FDA-approved drug may slow beta cell destruction in type 1 diabetes patients

FDA-approved drug may slow beta cell destruction in type 1 diabetes patients

Medicine & Health / Research

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New findings by UT Southwestern researchers suggest that a drug already used to treat autoimmune disorders might also help slow the destruction of insulin-producing cells in patients recently diagnosed with ...


Study shows gene positions may aid cancer diagnosis

Study shows gene positions may aid cancer diagnosis

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Certain genes switch their nuclear position in tumor cells, offering a potential new method of diagnosing cancer, say researchers from the National Cancer Institute. The study by Meaburn et al. will be published ...


Embodied Cognition: Using Movement to Understand the Mind

Embodied Cognition: Using Movement to Understand the Mind

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychology professors look at movement to study communication and cognition.


Repeat negative CT scan for lung cancer does not encourage ex-smokers to resume the habit

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Assurance of a cancer-free status did not prompt people participating in a long-term computerized tomography (CT) lung-cancer screening program to pick up their cigarettes again, researchers wrote in a study published in ...


Spices halt growth of breast stem cells, study finds

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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A new study finds that compounds derived from the spices turmeric and pepper could help prevent breast cancer by limiting the growth of stem cells, the small number of cells that fuel a tumor's growth.



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