Archive: 11/16/2007
Genital arousal disorder adversely impacts women's lives
New research shows that women suffering from Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder (PGAD), a condition marked by unprovoked, intrusive and persistent sensations of genital arousal that are unrelieved by one or several orgasms, ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 16, 2007 |
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Discovery of a new way to manipulate light a million times more efficiently
A discovery of a new way to manipulate light a million times more efficiently than before is announced in the journal Science this week.
Nov 16, 2007 |
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Bee strategy helps servers run more sweetly
Honeybees somehow manage to efficiently collect a lot of nectar with limited resources and no central command — after all, the queen bee is too busy laying eggs to oversee something as mundane as where the ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 16, 2007 |
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Blood clotting protein linked to rheumatoid arthritis
Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s have issued the first study showing that a protein normally involved in blood clotting (fibrin), also plays an important role in the inflammatory response and development of rheumatoid ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 16, 2007 |
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Dutch researchers demonstrate new control techniques for preventing aircraft crashes
On Wednesday 21 November, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) will demonstrate how improved control techniques can reduce the risk of aircraft crashes. The demonstration involves reconstructing troubled flights – such ...
Nov 16, 2007 |
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Portable electricity, life-like prosthetics on the way
The technology that makes a cell phone vibrate is the same technology that provides more natural movements to prosthetic limbs. A University of Houston research team is working on recreating and enhancing this technological ...
Nov 16, 2007 |
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A new window on the universe
Using new tools to look at the universe, says Patrick Brady, often has led to discoveries that change the course of science. History is full of examples.
Nov 16, 2007 |
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Researchers Study Digg.com to Investigate Collective Attention
In a world where millions of people are bombarded with thousands of messages daily, understanding how some messages become popular among large populations is vital for successful advertising, marketing and ...
Nov 16, 2007 |
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Reconstructed WW II Code Cracker Colossus Defeated
A monumental achievment in reconstructing Colossus the first code cracker computer used by Allied forces in World War II. In a timed contest between Colossus and the modern PC Colossus was defeated by a modern ...
Nov 16, 2007 |
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Report: Fewer women die in childbirth
Pregnancy is getting safer for women in many parts of the world, with the exception of sub-Saharan Africa, researchers said.
Nov 16, 2007 |
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Tamiflu touted for child use
The maker of the anti-viral Tamiflu said the drug is effective for treatment and prevention of influenza in young children.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 16, 2007 |
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Chronic HIV-1 infection frequently fails to protect against superinfection
Natural HIV-1 infection does not always elicit a protective immune response, according to a new study published November 16 in PLoS Pathogens. The team of researchers from Washington University, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 16, 2007 |
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'Cooling down' begins at Svalbard Doomsday Seed Bank
Refrigeration units began pumping chilly air deep into an Arctic mountain cavern today, launching the innovative and critical “cooling down” phase of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in advance of its official opening early ...
Nov 16, 2007 |
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