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The skyline of Tokyo in Japan, where scientists have criticised the new government for plans to slash research budgets

Japan scientists attack govt research cut plans

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Top Japanese scientists, including four Nobel laureates, have criticised the new government for plans to slash research budgets, warning the country will loose its high-tech edge.


Future for Internet retailers: Compete on niche products advises management insights study

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In their competition with brick-and-mortar stores, online retailers will do best if they promote the ability to search out and obtain niche products online, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue ...


FutureGrid to provide platform for experimental computation

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the next few months, a consortium that includes the University of Chicago will establish FutureGrid, a collaborative next-generation system for experimental scientific supercomputing.


New findings suggest strategy to help generate HIV-neutralizing antibodies

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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

New discoveries about anti-HIV antibodies may bring researchers a step closer to creating an effective HIV vaccine, according to a new paper co-authored by scientists at the Vaccine Research Center of the National Institute ...


Chemo-radiation before prostate removal may prevent cancer recurrence

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Researchers in the Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center have found a combination of radiation therapy and chemotherapy given before prostate removal is ...


Pushing light beyond its known limits

Pushing light beyond its known limits

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (18) | comments 6

Scientists at the University of Adelaide have made a breakthrough that could change the world's thinking on what light is capable of.


NASA Provides Venerable Hubble Hardware to Smithsonian

NASA Provides Venerable Hubble Hardware to Smithsonian

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two key instruments from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have a new home in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington after being returned to Earth aboard space shuttle Atlantis ...


Study uncovers key to how 'triggering event' in cancer occurs

Study uncovers key to how 'triggering event' in cancer occurs

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered what leads to two genes fusing together, a phenomenon that has been shown to cause prostate cancer to develop.


Ecological speciation by sexual selection on good genes: Is speciation adaptive?

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Darwin suggested that the action of natural selection can produce new species, but 150 years after the publication of his famous book, 'On the Origin of Species', debate still continues on the mechanisms of speciation. New ...


'Technology' plays large role in wealth inheritance

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

A new study reveals the important role inherited wealth plays in sustaining economic inequality in small scale societies. A team of 26 anthropologists, statisticians, and economists based at the Santa Fe Institute in New ...



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