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Thoughtful words help couples stay fighting fit

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 23 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Couples who bring thoughtful words to a fight release lower amounts of stress-related proteins, suggesting that rational communication between partners can ease the impact of marital conflict on the immune system.


Researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics

Researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 13, 2009 | 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 ...


More pain means real gain in complex regional pain syndrome treatment

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The saying "more pain, more gain" may be true for those already in terrible pain due to a chronic and debilitating condition, contrary to received wisdom. For those with Type I Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), working ...


Explained: RNA interference

Explained: RNA interference

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Every high school biology student learns the basics of how genes are expressed: DNA, the cell’s master information keeper, is copied into messenger RNA, which carries protein-building instructions to the ribosome, ...


Hewlett Packard to buy 3Com for $2.7B (AP)

HP's 3Com takeover marks a shot at Cisco

Technology / Business

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

(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co.'s $2.7 billion takeover of 3Com Corp. is a shot at networking leader Cisco Systems Inc. - and a sign of how old relationships are being frayed by a flurry of maneuvers by technology ...


Rice sociologist looks at pediatric physicians' views on religion, spirituality

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pediatricians and pediatric oncologists express differing views on religion and spirituality, largely based on the types of patients they treat, according to a survey that will appear in the current edition ...


Athletes on performance enhancers more likely to abuse alcohol, other drugs

Medicine & Health / Health

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

College athletes who use performance-enhancing substances may be at heightened risk of misusing alcohol and using recreational drugs as well, according to new research in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.


Cornell releases predator beetle to battle hemlock pest

Cornell releases predator beetle to battle hemlock pest

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers released a well-studied beetle predator to test its ability to ward off a hemlock-killing aphid-like insect.


Researchers find a weak link in cancer cell armor

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Professor Robert Weiss has found that when two particular genes are inhibited, cancer cells are destroyed at a greater rate. The study is published in the Nov. 9 issue of PNAS.


Warm-blooded dinosaurs worked up a sweat

Warm-blooded dinosaurs worked up a sweat

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Were dinosaurs endothermic (warm-blooded) like present-day mammals and birds or ectothermic (cold-blooded) like present-day lizards? The implications of this simple-sounding question go beyond ...



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