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(AP) -- The Federal Communications Commission on Friday asked Verizon Wireless why it recently doubled the fees it charges customers when they break their contracts on "smart" phones. http://www.physorg.com/news179171423.html Technology 2009-12-04T19:30:01-07:00 An Ecosia search engine launching Monday is counting on the world's fascination with the Internet to help save Brazilian rainforests and battle global warming. http://www.physorg.com/news179171361.html Technology 2009-12-04T18:50:01-07:00 Late recurrence is a risk for some pediatric cancers, particularly Ewing sarcomas and tumors of the central nervous system, according to a new study published online December 4 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. http://www.physorg.com/news179171254.html Medicine & Health 2009-12-04T18:30:01-07:00 (AP) -- A decision could come within days on whether to temporarily close a vital Chicago area shipping waterway in an increasingly desperate bid to stop the invasive Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes, an Obama administration adviser said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news179171516.html Space & Earth 2009-12-04T18:20:02-07:00 (AP) -- General Electric Co. has promised to buy at least $345 million in advertising from NBC Universal over five years after selling a controlling stake in the entertainment company to Comcast Corp., according to a regulatory filing Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news179171318.html Technology 2009-12-04T18:00:02-07:00 The body is a battle zone. Cells constantly compete with one another for space and dominance. Though the manner in which some cells win this competition is well known to be the survival of the fittest, how stem cells duke it out for space and survival is not as clear. A study on fruit flies published in the October 2 issue of Science by Johns Hopkins researchers describes how stem cells win this battle by literally sticking around. http://www.physorg.com/news179171035.html Medicine & Health 2009-12-04T17:47:06-07:00 Case Western Reserve University researchers, from the School of Medicine's Department of Nutrition, discovered two new metabolic pathways by which products of lipid peroxidation and some drugs of abuse, known as 4-hydroxyacids, are metabolized. http://www.physorg.com/news179171179.html Chemistry 2009-12-04T17:46:41-07:00 Working with mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins publishing in the December issue of Neoplasia have shown that a protein made by a gene called "Twist" may be the proverbial red flag that can accurately distinguish stem cells that drive aggressive, metastatic breast cancer from other breast cancer cells. http://www.physorg.com/news179170966.html Medicine & Health 2009-12-04T17:43:06-07:00 "Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?" wrote author Lynn Hecht Schafran. The answer, according to an article in the Journal of Vision, may lie in our interpretation of facial expressions. http://www.physorg.com/news179170846.html Medicine & Health 2009-12-04T17:42:02-07:00 As much as I love buying big-ticket items such as TVs, computers, cell phones and cameras, I also love buying accessories for those items just as much, maybe even more. http://www.physorg.com/news179137594.html Electronics 2009-12-04T16:30:01-07:00 Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins are among the most prescribed medicines in the U.S. Now a new study by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center indicates that statins may protect stem cell transplant patients from one of the most serious complications of the life-saving cancer therapy: graft-versus-host disease, or GVHD. The findings are reported in the Nov. 4 first edition of the journal Blood. http://www.physorg.com/news179165432.html Medicine & Health 2009-12-04T16:11:40-07:00 A professor at Tufts University will lead a team of international researchers to explore how humanities scholars can use data analysis to track topics about the Greco-Roman world as they appear in a million documents, spanning thousands of years. School of Arts and Sciences Professor Gregory Crane will be joined by researchers from three other universities on the project, which will be funded by one of eight recently awarded "Digging into Data Challenge" grants. http://www.physorg.com/news179165372.html Technology 2009-12-04T16:10:11-07:00 Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it has unleashed a series of lawsuits and is cooperating in criminal prosecutions worldwide in an effort to stem piracy of its software. http://www.physorg.com/news179160647.html Technology 2009-12-04T16:00:02-07:00 When Yeh You-chin was a boy half a century ago, he ate migratory birds with relish, but now he is at the forefront of efforts to preserve the feathered visitors to his south Taiwan home. http://www.physorg.com/news179160507.html Biology 2009-12-04T15:50:02-07:00 The Federal Trade Commission has broadened its investigation of Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker Intel beyond the company's competition with Advanced Micro Devices to include at least one other Silicon Valley company, Nvidia, sources said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news179160684.html Technology 2009-12-04T15:30:01-07:00 In the United States, caring for a child with special health care needs usually means higher medical expenses for a family - particularly for low-income families, who spend a disproportionally large share of their income on their child's care. Yet the amount of financial burden for these families also depends on their state of residence, says Paul T. Shattuck, Ph.D., professor of social work at Washington University in St. Louis. http://www.physorg.com/news179160063.html Medicine & Health 2009-12-04T15:20:04-07:00 Taiwan plans to boost its use of solar panels by a factor of 200 over the next decade and a half in an effort to increase clean energy, a ranking official said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news179160316.html Technology 2009-12-04T15:20:02-07:00 You want to go for a run, but you don't want to run in polluted air that might aggravate your asthma. University of California, San Diego computer scientists are creating a network of environmental sensors that will help you avoid air pollution hot spots that exist exactly when you are planning your route. The system will provide up-to-the-minute information on outdoor and indoor air quality, based on environmental information collected by hundreds, and eventually thousands, of sensors attached to the backpacks, purses, jackets and board shorts of San Diegans going about daily life. http://www.physorg.com/news179160276.html Technology 2009-12-04T15:10:01-07:00 US software giant Microsoft has blamed a problem during testing for a half-hour outage of its new Web search engine Bing. http://www.physorg.com/news179160205.html Technology 2009-12-04T15:00:01-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- It is a disturbing truth that sexual- and gender-based violence (SGBV) is used as a war tactic in developing nations. Silvia Dominguez, assistant professor of sociology at Northeastern University, recently visited Liberia to help develop a national mental health policy related to SGBV. http://www.physorg.com/news179159358.html Other Sciences 2009-12-04T14:50:20-07:00 (AP) -- Cooler temperatures in North America last year do not mean global warming is easing, government and academic scientists said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news179159979.html Space & Earth 2009-12-04T14:50:09-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- Runaways who maintain contact with pro-social peers and have parental support, especially from their mothers, tend to return home. http://www.physorg.com/news179159895.html Medicine & Health 2009-12-04T14:50:01-07:00 A new study shows that muscle cells grown in the lab can restore an intestine's ability to squeeze shut properly. The work, performed in dogs and rats, might ultimately help treat patients with conditions such as gastric reflux and fecal incontinence. http://www.physorg.com/news179160426.html Medicine & Health 2009-12-04T14:47:57-07:00 The "walls" of System 97W have been breached, and residents in the Western Pacific Ocean no longer have a tropical cyclone to worry about today. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center cancelled their "formation alert" for System 97W. System 97W is following in Nida's footsteps and is headed for dissipation. Nida has now officially dissipated. http://www.physorg.com/news179160177.html Space & Earth 2009-12-04T14:43:46-07:00 Human guinea pigs do their homework before volunteering for high-paying clinical trials. New research shows that people equate large payments for participation in medical research with increased levels of risk. And when they perceive studies to be risky, potential participants spend more time learning about the risks and nature of the study. Findings published this month in Social Science and Medicine, suggest there is a "mismatch" between current research guidelines for setting compensation levels and the assumptions participants make about the levels of pay and risk. http://www.physorg.com/news179158306.html Medicine & Health 2009-12-04T14:40:01-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- West Nile virus is more deadly in older adults due to defects in T cells, according to a study conducted by researchers from the UA College of Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news179159762.html Medicine & Health 2009-12-04T14:36:51-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- Launch of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California is scheduled for Dec. 11. http://www.physorg.com/news179158042.html Space & Earth 2009-12-04T14:20:01-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- Many ornamental nursery growers test to see if their plants need water by sticking a finger in the soil to see if it`s dry. Or, they just water them whether they need it or not. University of Georgia horticulturists have found a better way, one that requires less water, less fertilizer, less money and fewer dirty fingers. http://www.physorg.com/news179155240.html Space & Earth 2009-12-04T14:10:03-07:00 New study results strengthen the evidence that people who smoke cigarettes over a long period of time have an increased risk for developing colorectal cancer, even after adjusting for other risk factors. http://www.physorg.com/news179152104.html Medicine & Health 2009-12-04T14:10:01-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- Some atoms don't always follow the rules. Take the beryllium dimer, a seemingly simple molecule made up of two atoms that University of Delaware physicists Krzysztof Szalewicz and Konrad Patkowski and colleague Vladimír Spirko of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic report on in the Dec. 4 edition of the journal Science. http://www.physorg.com/news179157710.html Physics 2009-12-04T14:02:24-07:00