Researchers have uncovered more reason to believe that properly managed diet and exercise can help overweight, obese and severely obese people lose weight, two studies have suggested.

Medicine & Health - Health

Oct 26, 2010 2 / 5 (1) 0

An international team of primatologists have discovered a new species of monkey in Northern Myanmar (formerly Burma.) The research, published in the American Journal of Primatology, reveals how Rhinopithecus strykeri, ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 26, 2010 4.4 / 5 (13) 2 |

PayPal unveiled a new micropayments service on Tuesday that makes it easier to buy digital goods and announced an integration with social networking giant Facebook.

Technology - Internet

Oct 26, 2010 3.5 / 5 (4) 1

A new analysis of several major global studies of future species shifts and losses foresees inevitable continuing decline of biodiversity during the 21st century but offers new hope that it could be slowed ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 26, 2010 3 / 5 (2) 1

The most comprehensive assessment of the world's vertebrates confirms an extinction crisis with one-fifth of species threatened. However, the situation would be worse were it not for current global conservation efforts, according ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 26, 2010 5 / 5 (3) 0

Popular online file-sharing service LimeWire was shut down by a US federal court on Tuesday following a lawsuit filed by the music industry.

Technology - Internet

Oct 26, 2010 3.7 / 5 (3) 4

Barnes & Noble Inc. is introducing a new Nook e-reader with a color touch screen for $249 as competition in the fast-growing industry heats up ahead of the holidays.

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Oct 26, 2010 3.3 / 5 (7) 8

Rating agency Moody's said Tuesday it had lowered its outlook on Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia to "negative" from "stable."

Technology - Business

Oct 26, 2010 not rated yet 0

(AP) -- Lists that identify the books, music and movies individual customers bought from online retailer Amazon.com Inc. are protected from North Carolina tax collectors, a federal judge has ruled.

Technology - Business

Oct 26, 2010 not rated yet 0

Scientists at the University of Portsmouth have created a ‘virtual engineer’ which uses artificial intelligence techniques to predict when machines need repairing.

Technology - Engineering

Oct 26, 2010 not rated yet 1

Heavy cell-phone use over many years may threaten one’s health, according to well-known environmental activist, cancer epidemiologist, and author Devra Davis, MPH, PhD, who spoke recently at a seminar on the UCSF Parnassus ...

Medicine & Health - Health

Oct 26, 2010 5 / 5 (3) 3

Journals need to develop policies to handle the inevitable competing interests that arise when they publish papers that may bring them reprint revenue or increase their impact factors. This is the conclusion of a research ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Oct 26, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0

Cutting surveillance for mosquito-borne diseases would likely translate into an exponential increase in both the number of human cases and the health costs when a disease outbreak occurs, according to an analysis by Emory ...

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Oct 26, 2010 not rated yet 0

Scientists have revealed that an anti-obesity drug changes the way the brain responds to appetising, high-calorie foods in obese individuals. This insight may aid the development of new anti-obesity drugs which reduce the ...

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Oct 26, 2010 4.1 / 5 (7) 8 |

Current WHO pesticide classifications are based on toxicity in rats but basing regulation on human toxicity will make pesticide poisoning less hazardous and prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths globally without compromising ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Oct 26, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0