Best way to treat malaria: Avoid using same drug for everyone, scientists say 4 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists employing a sophisticated computer model pioneered at Princeton University and Resources for the Future has found that many governments worldwide are recommending the wrong kind of malaria ... | |
Creating lung cancer risk models for specific populations refines prediction 4 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Lung cancer risk prediction models are enhanced by taking into account risk factors by race and by measuring DNA repair capacity, according to research teams led by epidemiologists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson ... | |
 Astronomer Discovers Upper Mass Limit for Black Holes 4 hours ago | User rating: 4 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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There appears to be an upper limit to how big the universe’s most massive black holes can get, according to new research led by a Yale University astrophysicist. | |
Parents beware: Kids exposed to many hours of alcohol use in PG-13 movies 4 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Children are exposed to many hours of alcohol use in movies, especially films rated PG-13, a new study shows. | |
 Lightweight and long-legged males go the distance for sex 4 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Finding a mate can take considerable legwork as recently illustrated by the flightless and nocturnal Cook Strait giant weta Deinacrida rugosa. This cricket relative is found in New Zealand and is one of the ... | |
 Old sheep raising the baaa 4 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Populations of wild animals face the challenge of surviving in a changing climate. Researchers at Imperial College London and Université Claude Bernard Lyon have shown how a sheep population on a remote island ... | |
1 step back ... 2 steps forward 4 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Women with hormone-receptor positive, metastatic breast cancer may take medications for years to help keep their cancer at bay, but when the tumor becomes resistant to anti-hormonal drugs, treatment with chemotherapy becomes ... | |
 StellarWindow turns your laptop into a virtual planetarium 4 hours ago | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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If you enjoy looking at the stars, but get a little impatient trying to figure out which way to hold your star map to identify the constellations, a new software program may make things easier. Called StellarWindow, ... | |
Judge tentatively upholds charges in ‘cyber-bullying' case 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A federal judge handed a partial victory Thursday to prosecutors seeking to put a St. Louis-area woman on trial regarding online harassment of a teenage neighbor who later killed herself. | |
 Google reigns as world's most powerful 10-year-old 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search ... | |
Postmenopausal women taking anastrozole as a chemopreventive treatment do not have impaired cognitive performance 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
New results of a sub-study carried out as part of a worldwide breast cancer prevention study (IBIS-II) show that after two years of taking the aromatase inhibitor, anastrozole, postmenopausal women at high risk of breast ... | |
Driving the future of in-vehicle ICT 6 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Information and communications systems in road vehicles are progressing steadily, but the research community behind these developments remains fragmented. Now a European initiative has linked key knowledge ... | |
 Robot Scout: Fly Me (Safely) to the Moon 6 hours ago | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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The first attempt to land humans on the moon -- Apollo 11 -- was a triumph that almost ended in disaster. At just 400 feet from the lunar surface, with only about a minute's worth of fuel remaining, astronauts ... | |
 Recovery efforts not enough for critically endangered Asian vulture 7 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Captive breeding colonies of a critically endangered vulture, whose numbers in the wild have dwindled from tens of millions to a few thousand, are too small to protect the species from extinction, a University ... | |
Updated guidelines for stem cell research released 7 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The National Academies today released amended guidelines for research involving human embryonic stem cells, revising those that were issued in 2005 and updated in 2007. The Academies originally produced the guidelines to ... | |
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