Archive: 02/09/2009
AMD's Phenom II Takes On Intel's Core 2 Processors
(PhysOrg.com) -- AMD has added two new Phenom II desktop chips to their product line. The Phenom II Dragon line desktop processors use AMD's new 45-nanometer technology and consists both of a triple-core (X3) ...
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Research on pigs may lead to answers for human male infertility
In the late 1990s the Finnish Yorkshire pig population was threatened by a genetic defect which spread at an alarming rate and led to infertility. The defective KPL2 gene in porcine chromosome 16 caused pig spermatozoa to ...
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Nearly 50 new species of prehistoric creatures discovered in record time
In just four years a University of Portsmouth palaeontologist has discovered 48 new species from the age of the dinosaurs - while other scientists took 180 years to identify the same number.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
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Unexplained chest pain can be due to stress
Each year, many people seek emergency treatment for unexplained chest pains. A thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, indicates several common factors among those affected, including stress ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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Lured by promise of stem cells, Americans head abroad for medical treatment
A quadriplegic since she was 14, Jessica Grimm learned long ago how to work around her body's limitations. She lives alone, uses a computer, has a job, even drives a car. But the Arlington, Texas, student must rely on a coterie ...
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Physicist's vision for helping world's poor: self-adjusting eyeglasses
Joshua Silver, a lifelong tinkerer, was fiddling around one day with a cheap, water-filled lens he'd built as an optics experiment when he noticed something interesting.
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Pregnancy Has No Impact On Breast Cancer, But Can Delay Diagnosis And Treatment
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study finds women who develop breast cancer while pregnant or soon afterwards do not experience any differences in disease severity or likelihood of survival compared to other women with breast cancer. ...
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Mama whales teach babies where to eat
University of Utah biologists discovered that young "right whales" learn from their mothers where to eat, raising concern about their ability to find new places to feed if Earth's changing climate disrupts ...
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Black women with uterine cancers more likely to die than white patients
Black women with cancers of the uterus are less likely to survive the disease than white women, and relatively little progress has been made over the past two decades to narrow this racial difference. That is the conclusion ...
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Marijuana use linked to increased risk of testicular cancer
Frequent and/or long-term marijuana use may significantly increase a man's risk of developing the most aggressive type of testicular cancer, according to a study by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The ...
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