Areas of California are being intensively sprayed with pheromones designed to create sexual confusion in a destructive moth.

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U.S. drivers like lots of parking lots, according to a study that shows in some Indiana areas parking spaces outnumber resident drivers 3-to-1.

Other Sciences - Other

Sep 11, 2007 3.7 / 5 (3) 0

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation has announced a $20 million gift to fund U.S. adult and embryonic stem cell research at UCLA.

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For several months last spring, the Vanderbilt greenhouse held more members of a rare species of native sunflower than are known to exist in the wild.

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An analysis of four studies involving more than 14,000 patients found that long-term use of the diabetes drug rosiglitazone (Avandia®) increased the risk of heart attack by 42 percent and doubled the risk of heart failure, ...

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Sep 11, 2007 5 / 5 (3) 0

Men now have another good reason to consider taking finasteride, a well-known generic drug that shrinks an enlarged prostate and reduces the risk of getting prostate cancer by 25 percent. A new study from the Southwest Oncology ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Sep 11, 2007 4.7 / 5 (7) 0

Terrorists and extremists have set up shop on the Internet, using it to recruit new members, spread propaganda and plan attacks across the world. The size and scope of these dark corners of the Web are vast ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Sep 11, 2007 4.3 / 5 (17) 0

An innovative and inexpensive way of making nanomaterials on a large scale has resulted in novel forms of advanced materials that pave the way for exceptional and unexpected optical properties. The new fabrication ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Sep 11, 2007 4.4 / 5 (39) 0

Fujitsu today announced that it has developed a PC Login Kit for use with the PalmSecure palm vein biometric authentication device and begun sales of a mouse model and a standard model for corporate users.

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Sep 11, 2007 4.3 / 5 (10) 0

Researchers have coaxed adult stem cells into forming artificial heart valves that could one day mean fewer surgeries for children suffering from heart defects.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Sep 11, 2007 4.2 / 5 (15) 0

A history of maternal epilepsy and its associated treatment may be linked to impaired intelligence later in life, says a new study published in Epilepsia. Dr. Nina Oyen, M.D., of the University of Bergen and Norwegian Institute ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Sep 11, 2007 5 / 5 (1) 0

The United States continues to spend the most on health care when compared to other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. Health care prices and higher per capita incomes are major factors ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Sep 11, 2007 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

Physicians who treat women with the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1 often remove their patients’ ovaries to eliminate the source of estrogen they believe fuels cancer growth. Yet they also know that anti-estrogen ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Sep 11, 2007 3.5 / 5 (2) 0

University of Adelaide research into the problems caused by the early onset of menopause will be among the highlights of the 11th Australasian Menopause Society (AMS) Congress, being held in Adelaide this weekend.

Medicine & Health - Health

Sep 11, 2007 3.8 / 5 (4) 0

Dutch researcher Paul van der Nat investigated more than three million collisions between electrons and protons. In his PhD thesis he demonstrates -for the first time– that the spin contribution of quarks ...

Physics - General Physics

Sep 11, 2007 4.1 / 5 (43) 0