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Scientists identify compounds that stimulate stem cell growth in the brain

Scientists at Harvard University have identified key compounds that stimulate stem cell growth in the brain, which may one day lead to restored function for people affected by Parkinson's disease, strokes, multiple sclerosis, ...

Medicine & Health /

created Sep 01, 2006 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Researchers Provide Evidence of How Proteins Fold

Experimental evidence provided by a Cornell researcher and colleagues at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., support a long-held theory of how and where proteins fold to create their characteristic ...

Biology /

created Sep 01, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Wildlife Corridors Benefit Plant Biodiversity, Native Plants

Wildlife corridors appear to support not only wildlife but also plants —especially the oft-threatened native variety.

Biology /

created Sep 01, 2006 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Mature Muscle Fibers Can Revert to Become Cancerous

Mature muscle fibers, rather than their less-developed neighbors, are the tissues that turn malignant in a soft-tissue cancer that strikes children and teens, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children’s Medical ...

Medicine & Health /

created Sep 01, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Sterile neutrinos and the search for warm dark matter

Matteo Viel, a research fellow at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, England, believes that particle physics and cosmology could be more compatible as scientists work toward understanding the origins ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 01, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (54) | comments 0 feature

Researchers create new system to address phishing fraud

Carnegie Mellon University CyLab researchers have developed a new anti-phishing tool to protect users from online transactions at fraudulent Web sites.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 01, 2006 | popularity 1.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Quantum cascade diode laser could be vital for safeguarding aircraft

Terrorists can strike anywhere, at any time, and aircraft, both military and civilian, are targets for heat-seeking missiles, one of many tactics in use by groups hostile to the United States.

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 01, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (23) | comments 0

Big Bang's Afterglow Fails an Intergalactic Shadow Test

The apparent absence of shadows where shadows were expected to be is raising new questions about the faint glow of microwave radiation once hailed as proof that the universe was created by a "Big Bang."

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 01, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (134) | comments 0

In Brief: Second Windows Media 11 beta released

Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., Thursday released the second beta version of Windows Media Player 11.

Technology / Software

created Sep 01, 2006 | popularity 1.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0


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