Study offers new insight on HIV transmission risk of men who have sex with men August 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Approximately half of all new HIV infections in the United States result from the sexual risk behaviors of men who have sex with men. Now, a new study led by a researcher at The Miriam Hospital provides additional insight ... | |
 Attention grabbers snatch lion's share of visual memory August 07, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Our visual memory is not as good as we may think, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust – but it can be used more flexibly than scientists previously thought. In a study published today in the ... | |
Pathogen that causes disease in cattle also associated with Crohn's disease August 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
People with Crohn's disease (CD) are seven-fold more likely to have in their gut tissues the bacterium that causes a digestive-tract disease in cattle called Johne's disease. The role this bacterium may or may not play in ... | |
A new light on the brains of people with borderline personality disorder August 07, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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In a game of give and get, the brains of people with borderline personality disorder often don't get it. | |
Compressor-free refrigerator may loom in the future August 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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Refrigerators and other cooling devices may one day lose their compressors and coils of piping and become solid state, according to Penn State researchers who are investigating electrically induced heat effects of some ferroelectric ... | |
New computer simulations show how special the solar system is August 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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Prevailing theoretical models attempting to explain the formation of the solar system have assumed it to be average in every way. Now a new study by Northwestern University astronomers, using recent data from the 300 exoplanets ... | |
Clean 3-way split observed August 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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In chemistry as in life, threesomes are not known to break up neatly. And while open-minded thinkers have insisted that clean three-way splits do happen, nobody had actually witnessed one – until now. | |
 Austrians fete voluptuous, prehistoric Venus August 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(AP) -- It's Venusmania in Vienna, where Austrians are celebrating the discovery 100 years ago Thursday of a tiny but voluptuous figurine that dates back 25,000 years to a time when mammoths roamed the region. | |
Surprises in first adoption survey to include men August 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- The first federal survey of both men and women on adoption challenges some stereotypes and offers some surprising findings: | |
Forward step in forecasting global warming August 07, 2008 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Arizona State University researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding the effect on climate change of a key component of urban pollution. The discovery could lead to more accurate forecasting of possible global-warming ... | |
 Fingerprints provide clues to more than just identity August 07, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Fingerprints can reveal critical evidence, as well as an identity, with the use of a new technology developed at Purdue University that detects trace amounts of explosives, drugs or other materials left behind ... | |
 Climate change: When it rains it (really) pours August 07, 2008 | User rating: 2.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Climate models have long predicted that global warming will increase the intensity of extreme precipitation events. A new study conducted at the University of Miami and the University of Reading (U.K.) provides ... | |
Pacific shellfish ready to invade Atlantic August 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
As the Arctic Ocean warms this century, shellfish, snails and other animals from the Pacific Ocean will resume an invasion of the northern Atlantic that was interrupted by cooling conditions three million years ago, predict ... | |
A gene for sexual switching in melons provides clues to the evolution of sex August 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
A newly discovered function for a hormone in melons suggests it plays a role in how sexual systems evolve in plants. The study, conducted by French and American scientists, appears in the latest issue of the journal Science. | |
 Now That's Cool: Engineers Out to Thaw the Mysteries of Ice August 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "Ye canna change the laws of physics!" Scotty warned Captain Kirk on Star Trek. But engineers and physicists at the University of Maryland may rewrite one of them. | |
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