Astronomers in Taiwan have named a small astral body they discovered between Mars and Jupiter Chiayi after the county where their observatory is located.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Oct 17, 2007 2.5 / 5 (6) 0

A study of a virulent drug-resistant bacterium has tied the infection to nearly 19,000 U.S. deaths in 2005.

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Oct 17, 2007 4.4 / 5 (9) 1

A U.S. psychologist says young toddlers look at whole objects rather than parts when learning new words.

Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry

Oct 17, 2007 4.2 / 5 (6) 0

With eyes that peer into the most energetic phenomena in the universe, ESA’s Integral has been setting records, discovering the unexpected and helping understanding the unknown over its first five years.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

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The world’s oceans are becoming more acid, with potentially devastating consequences for corals and the marine organisms that build reefs and provide much of the Earth’s breathable oxygen.

Space & Earth - Environment

Oct 17, 2007 4.7 / 5 (11) 2

Insulin, long known as an important regulator of blood glucose levels, now has a newly appreciated role in the brain.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Oct 17, 2007 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

A study to be published in the October edition of Hypertension Research reveals Pycnogenol, (pic-noj-en-all), an antioxidant plant extract from the bark of the French maritime pine tree, helps individuals by enhancing healthy ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Oct 17, 2007 3.6 / 5 (9) 0

Humans may not be any more sensitive in detecting biological motion compared with nonbiological motion, concludes a study recently published in Journal of Vision, an online, free-access publication of the Association for ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Oct 17, 2007 3.3 / 5 (4) 0

If the care received by vulnerable older people concurrently enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid was evaluated on a grading scale, it would squeak by with a barely passing mark, a new UCLA study has found.

Medicine & Health - Health

Oct 17, 2007 4.3 / 5 (3) 0

These days, Halloween is all about good scary fun, but people have been thrilling to spooky tales as far back as ancient Greece and Rome, according to University of Massachusetts Amherst classics professor Debbie Felton, ...

Other Sciences - Other

Oct 17, 2007 4.1 / 5 (8) 0

A team of researchers led by biologists at the University of California, San Diego has discovered a completely new mechanism that mammalian cells employ to fight infections of the Hepatitis C virus, which affects approximately ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Oct 17, 2007 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

After an eight-year run that gave astronomers a completely new perspective on the universe, NASA has concluded the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer mission. The satellite, known as FUSE, became inoperable in July when ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

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Using a little-known Google Labs widget, computer scientists from UC San Diego and UCLA have brought common sense to an automated image labeling system. The common sense comes as the ability to use context ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Oct 17, 2007 4.5 / 5 (19) 4

Using acupuncture before and during surgery significantly reduces the level of pain and the amount of potent painkillers needed by patients after the surgery is over, according to Duke University Medical Center anesthesiologists ...

Medicine & Health - Other

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Clarkson University researchers have developed technology that uses the vibrations caused by passing traffic to power wireless bridge monitoring sensors.

Technology - Engineering

Oct 17, 2007 4.8 / 5 (5) 0