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Bond Girl Draws Attention to Babies Born with Extra Fingers or Toes

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 06, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the Bond Girls in the new James Bond movie is drawing attention to a relatively common congenital condition called polydactyly -- extra fingers or toes.





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Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found (AP)

Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 7

(AP) -- Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum ...


High-tech holiday gift ideas for $50 and $100

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Picking a Christmas gift for the nerd in your life is never easy. In the holiday stampede, it's all too easy to end up with an outdated gadget or obsolete program. And mistakes can be costly.


Switching cell phones takes emotional toll

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

She's gone. We were the best of friends, constant companions -- literally, because I carried her day and night in the left-front pocket of my jeans. For five years we roamed the world together, or at least the United States, ...


Grant awarded to improve the security of mobile devices and cellular networks

Grant awarded to improve the security of mobile devices and cellular networks

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Smart phones -- like BlackBerrys and iPhones -- have become indispensable to today's highly mobile workforce and tech-savvy youngsters. While these devices keep friends and colleagues just a few thumb-taps ...


Worms infesting computers worldwide: Microsoft

Worms infesting computers worldwide: Microsoft

Technology / Software

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (15) | comments 0

A Microsoft security report released Monday warns that cyber crooks are digging into computers for weak spots to penetrate with worms -- malicious software that steals control or data.


Scientists are first to observe the global motions of an enzyme copying DNA

Scientists Are First To Observe The Global Motions Of An Enzyme Copyinng DNA

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists here have identified how the motions of an enzyme are related to correctly copying genetic instructions, setting the stage for studies that can uncover what happens when DNA copying ...


You might be 'fluphobic' if ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The moment it became clear that I was on the verge of a full-blown case of the disease, I was gazing at an ATM keypad.


Trembling hands and molecular handshakes

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The heritable Fragile X tremor/ataxia syndrome is a common neurodegenerative disease. It is assumed to result from a relative lack of the protein Pur-alpha. A new study by a German team under the leadership of Dr. Dierk Niessing ...


Early treatment of fibromyalgia more effective

Early treatment of fibromyalgia more effective

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- People suffering from fibromyalgia have reduced activity in the parts of the brain that inhibit the experience of pain. Drugs that affect the CNS can be effective against the disease, and ...


A scientific basis the 'golden rule' of pairing wines and foods

A scientific basis the 'golden rule' of pairing wines and foods

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Scientists in Japan are reporting the first scientific explanation for one of the most widely known rules of thumb for pairing wine with food: "Red wine with red meat, white wine with fish." The scientists ...



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