(PhysOrg.com) -- Immune systems have their sinister side, especially when they have not learned how hard to fight. Crohn's disease and other inflammatory bowel diseases inflict more than a million Americans ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Feb 23, 2011 4.7 / 5 (22) 12 |

Victor Timmins was having trouble doing even the simplest tasks; even walking was difficult.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A principle area of investigation in the field of metacognition is the question of whether nonhuman animals can - like their human counterparts - monitor or self-regulate their own cognitive states and processes.

Biology - Other

Feb 23, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers studying a large deposit of Neanderthal bones in Italy have discovered the remains of birds along with the bones, and evidence the feathers were probably used for ornamentation. ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Feb 23, 2011 4.8 / 5 (14) 23 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- For insects, as for humans, mating can involve complicated interactions between males and females, with each partner engaging in rituals or behaviors that influence the other.

Biology - Biotechnology

Feb 23, 2011 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered a signaling mechanism in the bacterial ribosome that detects proteins that activate genes for antibiotic resistance.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Feb 23, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

Computer chips' clocks have stopped getting faster. To maintain the regular doubling of computer power that we now take for granted, chip makers have been giving chips more "cores," or processing units. But ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Feb 23, 2011 4.7 / 5 (3) 4 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- UC scientists and cooperators traveled the world looking for natural enemies of the olive fruit fly — the most important pest of olive trees — and found several parasites of the fruit fly that may ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 23, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

Engineers at Newcastle University, UK, will today begin an ambitious project to drill 2,000m under the heart of the city in search of renewable energy. In a landmark project that will reach new depths in an attempt to ha ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Feb 23, 2011 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent data for gas rich galaxies precisely match predictions of a modified theory of gravity know as MOND according to a new analysis by University of Maryland Astronomy Professor Stacy McGaugh. ...

Physics - General Physics

Feb 23, 2011 4.7 / 5 (41) 96 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ultrasensitive electronic skin developed by Stanford researcher Zhenan Bao is getting even better. Now she's demonstrated that it can detect chemicals and biological molecules, in addition ...

Technology - Engineering

Feb 23, 2011 4.6 / 5 (12) 1 |

Rightwing candidates are better looking than their leftwing counterparts, something they benefit from during elections, according to a study conducted by Swedish and Finnish economists.

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Feb 23, 2011 4 / 5 (11) 26

(PhysOrg.com) -- If a plan to build new 4G mobile phone base stations in the US goes ahead, engineers say GPS satellite navigation systems will be seriously jammed and huge areas of the country will become ...

Technology - Telecom

Feb 23, 2011 4.2 / 5 (12) 7 |

(AP) -- The launch of an Earth-observation satellite has been delayed to no earlier than Friday to give engineers time to troubleshoot a problem.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Feb 23, 2011 not rated yet 0

Baby dolphins are washing up dead along the oil-soaked US Gulf Coast at more than 10 times the normal rate in the first birthing season since the BP disaster, researchers said.

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 23, 2011 3 / 5 (3) 1