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Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Dec 07, 2010 4 / 5 (2) 0

When Dawn Shrum was in college a few years ago, her one and only Web browser was Microsoft Internet Explorer. Boy, has her browsing changed since then.

Technology - Software

Dec 07, 2010 3.7 / 5 (10) 12

(AP) -- Amazon.com is giving other merchants a chance to sell selections from its electronic book store and earn a commission.

Technology - Internet

Dec 07, 2010 not rated yet 0

(AP) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested and jailed without bail Tuesday in a sex-crimes investigation, but his organization scarcely missed a beat, releasing a new batch of the secret cables ...

Technology - Business

Dec 07, 2010 5 / 5 (2) 37

Most people feel chills and shivers in response to music that thrills them, but some people feel these chills often and others feel them hardly at all. People who are particularly open to new experiences are most likely to ...

Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 07, 2010 4.8 / 5 (5) 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The brain's visual neurons continually develop predictions of what they will perceive and then correct erroneous assumptions as they take in additional external information, according to new ...

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Dec 07, 2010 5 / 5 (7) 2 |

Better known as the light sensor that sets the body's biological clock, melanopsin also plays an important role in vision: Via its messengers-so-called melanopsin-expressing retinal ganglion cells, or mRGCs-it ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

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A US company has received the go-ahead to launch its first space capsule into orbit Wednesday, in a key test for the future of commercial space flight as NASA looks to end its shuttle program.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Dec 07, 2010 5 / 5 (2) 2

Dutch professors Bauke Dijkstra and Lubbert Dijkhuizen have deciphered the structure and functional mechanism of the glucansucrase enzyme that is responsible for dental plaque sticking to teeth. This knowledge will stimulate ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Dec 07, 2010 4.8 / 5 (37) 33 |

Among smokers with military-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), integrating smoking cessation treatment with mental health care for PTSD resulted in higher rates of prolonged smoking abstinence, compared to referral ...

Medicine & Health - Health

Dec 07, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0

System 94B has not been classified as a tropical depression, but NASA satellite data has shown that it is creating heavy rainfall near India's southeastern coast. A second NASA satellite revealed that strong ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Dec 07, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0

The use of tobacco cessation medication in a population may lead to reduced hospital admissions for heart attacks and for coronary atherosclerosis within the two years after use according to a study by Thomas Land and colleagues ...

Medicine & Health - Health

Dec 07, 2010 not rated yet 0

(AP) -- A Microsoft executive says the company has tried to take advantage of the fact that it's playing catch up.

Technology - Software

Dec 07, 2010 not rated yet 0

A new formulation of Amphotericin B (AmB) developed by University of British Columbia researchers has been shown to be stable in tropical climates and effective in treating Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) in mouse models.

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Dec 07, 2010 not rated yet 0

Children exposed to second-hand smoke are more likely to get invasive meningococcal disease than children who are not exposed, reports a study from Chien-Chang Lee at the Harvard School of Public Health (Boston, USA) and ...

Medicine & Health - Health

Dec 07, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0