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Jumping gene enabled key step in corn domestication

Corn split off from its closest relative teosinte, a wild Mexican grass, about 10,000 years ago thanks to the breeding efforts of early Mexican farmers. Today it's hard to tell that the two plants were ever close kin: Corn ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers solve mystery of disappearing bird digit

Evolution adds and subtracts, and nowhere is this math more evident than in vertebrates, which are programmed to have five digits on each limb. But many species do not. Snakes, of course, have no digits, and ...

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 04, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

How to text message and avoid pain

While it is well known that excessive text messaging can result in sore thumbs, less is known about its possible effects on the neck, arms and hands. Young adults with symptoms in these parts of the body use ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Why the middle finger has such a slow connection

Each part of the body has its own nerve cell area in the brain -- we therefore have a map of our bodies in our heads. The functional significance of these maps is largely unclear. What effects they can have is now shown by ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The iPhone's Siri doesn't seem so smart in Scotland

D'ye want me tae spaek more clearly, Siri? Aye, ye would.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

An electronic green thumb

If sensors are supposed to communicate with each other to compare the measured data and to secure them, then, in the future, a network of distributed sensor nodes will aid in that: the network ensures a problem-free communication ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Visual nudge improves accuracy of mammogram readings

In 2011 -- to the consternation of women everywhere -- a systematic review of randomized clinical trials showed that routine mammography was of little value to younger women at average or low risk of breast ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Being ignored hurts, even by a stranger

(Medical Xpress) -- Feeling like you’re part of the gang is crucial to the human experience. All people get stressed out when we’re left out. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Associ ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

Socioeconomic status more influential than race in determination of child abuse

An Indiana University School of Medicine study has determined that a patient's socioeconomic status has more influence than race on physician diagnosis of whether a child's injury was accidental or caused by abuse.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The opposite of evil: Google named best place to work in America

Google has a new weapon in the intense war for engineering talent in Silicon Valley: The search giant on Thursday was named by Fortune magazine as the best place to work in America.

Technology / Business

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

USB key opens home files from anywhere

A USB-style key that splits in two lets people open their home or work computer files from any Internet-linked computer.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Can cosmetic surgery tame its Wild West?

From US "Botox parties" to Asia's craze for eyelid jobs or Brazilian bum lifts, millions now reshape their bodies through cosmetic surgery each year.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nanoscale biological coating is a new way to stop the bleeding

MIT engineers have developed a nanoscale biological coating that can halt bleeding nearly instantaneously, an advance that could dramatically improve survival rates for soldiers injured in battle.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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