 Circadian rhythm-metabolism link discovered 18 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
UC Irvine researchers have found a molecular link between circadian rhythms – our own body clock – and metabolism. The discovery reveals new possibilities for the treatment of diabetes, obesity and other related ... | |
 China's mobile users top 600 million: govt 18 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
The number of mobile users in China, the world's biggest cellphone market, now tops 600 million, the government said, as subscribers increasingly abandon fixed lines. | |
Embarq provides more details on Web tracking test 18 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Embarq Corp. has revealed more details about its exploration of a program that tracked Internet subscribers' Web-surfing habits for advertising purposes, telling Congress that it performed the test on 26,000 customers ... | |
Qualcomm earns outlook falls short of expectations 18 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Qualcomm, the world's largest maker of chips that run cell phones, issued fourth-quarter and full-year earnings guidance Thursday that fell short of Wall Street targets, but the stock soared on a broad-ranging legal ... | |
 Lenses galore -- Hubble finds large sample of very distant galaxies 19 hours ago | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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By using the gravitational magnification from six massive lensing galaxy clusters, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided scientists with the largest sample of very distant galaxies seen to date. ... | |
Study: Typhoons bury tons of carbon in the oceans 19 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 3
A single typhoon in Taiwan buries as much carbon in the ocean -- in the form of sediment -- as all the other rains in that country all year long combined. That's the finding of an Ohio State University study published in ... | |
Researchers unravel key mechanism of cellular damage in aging and disease 19 hours ago | User rating: 5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Researchers have taken a first snapshot of how a class of highly reactive molecules inflicts cellular damage as part of aging, heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, kidney disease and Alzheimer's disease to name a few. ... | |
Various species' genes evolve to minimize protein production errors 19 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Scientists at Harvard University and the University of Texas at Austin have found that genetic evolution is strongly shaped by genes' efforts to prevent or tolerate errors in protein production. | |
Why play a losing game? Study uncovers why low-income people buy lottery tickets 19 hours ago | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Although state lotteries, on average, return just 53 cents for every dollar spent on a ticket, people continue to pour money into them — especially low-income people, who spend a larger percentage of their incomes on lottery ... | |
Shielding for ambitious neutron experiment 23 hours ago | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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In science fiction stories it is either the inexhaustible energy source of the future or a superweapon of galactic magnitude: antimaterial. In fact, antimaterial can neither be found on Earth nor in space, is extremely complex ... | |
Population policy needed for the UK in order to combat climate change 1 hour ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The biggest contribution UK couples can make to combating climate change would be to have only two children or at least have one less than they first intended, argues an editorial published on BMJ.com today. | |
Giving an additional early vaccination may reduce measles outbreaks 2 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Outbreaks of measles in developing countries may be reduced by vaccinating infants at 4.5 months of age as well as at the World Health Organization's recommended routine vaccination at 9 months, according to a study published ... | |
EPA: Few volunteering to cut greenhouse gases 2 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Voluntary pollution-reduction programs touted by the Bush administration as part of the solution to global warming have "limited potential" to reduce greenhouse gases, according to an internal government watchdog. | |
 China says has more people surfing the Web than US 2 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- China's booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data ... | |
 Japanese Internet mogul found guilty in appeal 3 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- A Japanese appeals court upheld the conviction of flamboyant former Internet mogul Takafumi Horie on Friday in an ongoing case that has come to symbolize this nation's effort to deal with white collar ... | |
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