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Consumer Watchdog and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) asked the FTC to oppose Google's acquisition of AdMob

Consumer groups try to block Google purchase of AdMob

Technology / Internet

created 13 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Two consumer groups urged the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday to block Internet search and advertising giant Google's proposed purchase of mobile advertising company AdMob.


New form of malaria threatens Thai-Cambodia border (AP)

New form of malaria threatens Thai-Cambodia border

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created 18 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- O'treng village doesn't look like the epicenter of anything. Just off a muddy rutted-out road, it is nothing more than a handful of Khmer-style bamboo huts perched crookedly on stilts, tucked among ...


Ladder-walking locusts show big brains aren't always best

Ladder-walking locusts show big brains aren't always best

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Scientists have shown for the first time that insects, like mammals, use vision rather than touch to find footholds. They made the discovery thanks to high-speed video cameras - technology the BBC uses to ...


Figitumumab has anti-tumor activity in Ewing's sarcoma

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

A preliminary study of the anticancer drug figitumumab has found that it has antitumour activity in Ewing's sarcoma—a cancer which affects mainly teenage boys. The results have led to the drug's progression to a Phase 2 trial ...


Broken genomes behind breast cancers

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The first detailed search of breast cancer genomes to uncover genomic rearrangements is published today. The team characterised the ways in which the human genome is broken and put back together in 24 cases of breast cancer.


Whiskers hold secrets of invasive minks

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Details of the lifestyle of mink, which escaped from fur farms and now live wild in the UK, have been revealed through analysis of their whiskers. Research led by the University of Exeter reveals more about the diet of this ...


Turtles' Christmas journey tracked by scientists

Turtles' Christmas journey tracked by scientists

Biology / Ecology

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

The journeys of two marine turtles around the world's oceans will be available to view online this Christmas, thanks to a new research project launched by the University of Exeter.


Adding a genetic supertool: Genome Analyzer fuels research dreams and tomorrow's cures

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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

To identify the hemophilia mutation that affected Queen Victoria and her European relatives, scientific detectives used a cutting-edge "deep sequencing tool." Able to trace rare genetic disease mutations, the tool can turn ...


Limestone leaf warbler: New bird species discovered

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A diminutive, colorful bird living in the rocky forests of Laos and Vietnam has been discovered by a team of scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, Lao PDR Department of Forestry, Swedish University ...


EPA, Army Corps urged to consider separating Great Lakes, river basin

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The once-radical idea of somehow plugging the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal to stop the flow of unwanted species from spilling between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basin is quickly picking up political support.



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