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Health-centered weight control method shows promise

Most weight-control strategies emphasize energy-restricted diets and increased physical activity - and most are not effective over the long term. In a study of a "weight-acceptance" intervention, published in the November ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Twisting molecules by brute force: A top-down approach

Molecules that are twisted are ubiquitous in nature, and have important consequences in biology, chemistry, physics and medicine. Some molecules have unique and technologically useful optical properties; the medicinal properties ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Making skinny worms fat, fat worms skinny

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers exploring human metabolism at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have uncovered a handful of chemical compounds that regulate fat storage in worms, offering a new ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Quality of life measures in breast cancer clinical trials

Quality of life measures tend to be most useful for clinical decision-making in trials in which quality of life is the primary outcome, according to a recent study published online January 7 in The Journal of the National Ca ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Senators to NASA chief: Go somewhere specific

(AP) -- NASA needs to go somewhere specific, not just talk about it, skeptical U.S. senators told the space agency chief Wednesday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 24, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 11

Cheap, sensitive sensors could detect explosives, toxins in water

(PhysOrg.com) -- A sensitive new Stanford-developed disposable chip detects low concentrations of the explosive trinitrotoluene (TNT) and a close chemical cousin of the dreaded toxic nerve agent sarin in water ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Pittsburgh Center Unveils a Bigger, Faster Supercomputer Called 'Big Ben'

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) now has it own "Big Ben" -- only this technological bellwether rings out in teraflops. PSC acquired Big Ben, the first XT3 system to be shipped from Cray, Inc., with a ...

Electronics /

created Jul 21, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New Supercomputing Center in Pittsburgh

The U.S. academic community will soon have access to a new supercomputer modeled on the highest-performance systems currently being built in the United States, through a $9.7 million award to the Pittsburgh Supercomputin ...

Technology /

created Sep 29, 2004 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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