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See your photos in 3D on new website

(PhysOrg.com) -- You could turn your holiday snaps or favourite figurines into three-dimensional images with new free software developed by a researcher from Queensland University of Technology and the Australasian ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 7

Study identifies potential fix for damaged knees

Investigators from Hospital for Special Surgery have shown that a biodegradable scaffold or plug can be used to treat patients with damaged knee cartilage. The study is unique in that it used serial magnetic resonance imaging ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New research decodes the secret language of the sea

(PhysOrg.com) -- Even parasite-eating fish recognise the benefits of good advertising, UQ research has found.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

WHO approves cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix

(AP) -- The World Health Organization has approved a second cervical cancer vaccine, this one made by GlaxoSmithKline, meaning U.N. agencies and partners can now officially buy millions of doses of the vaccine for poor countries ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Better tools needed to detect ovarian cancer, report concludes

Numerous times after Amy Brannock was diagnosed and treated for ovarian cancer, a screening test showed her illness remained in remission.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Internet service providers not keeping up with user trends

There's a revolution happening on the Internet -- though broadband providers have not seemed to notice.

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Scientists hope tiny insect can help save soybeans

(AP) -- An insect no bigger than a comma is being studied as a natural predator that farmers could use instead of chemicals to protect the nation's soybean crop from aphids.

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Universal teams with TuneCore to discover talent

(AP) -- Universal Music Group's distribution arm is teaming up with digital track distributor TuneCore, a move it says will give it a leg up in signing up-and-coming artists without a recording deal yet.

Technology / Internet

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Two reproductive factors are important predictors of death from ovarian cancer

Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that survival among women with ovarian cancer is influenced by age of menarche and total number of lifetime ovulatory cycles.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Experts disagree on seriousness of attacks on government Web sites

Government Web sites were operating normally on Wednesday, officials said, after a broad attack on public and private computer systems that targeted sites operated by the White House, the New York Stock Exchange and The Washington ...

Technology / Internet

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Link between migraines and reduced breast cancer risk confirmed in follow-up study

The relationship between migraine headaches in women and a significant reduction in breast cancer risk has been confirmed in a follow-on study to landmark research published last year and conducted by scientists at Fred Hutchinson ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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'Invisible hand' guides evolution of cooperative turn-taking, research shows

It's not just good manners to wait your turn -- it's actually down to evolution, according to new research by University of Leicester psychologists.

Biology / Evolution

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 5

No psychological risk in children next-born after stillbirth

There is no evidence that children next-born after stillbirth are clinically at risk compared to children of non-bereaved mothers, according to a study published today in The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Howeve ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Dangers grow on Web from attacks

When people worry about the dangers of the Internet, a Web site built by the producers of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" is probably not what they have in mind.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0