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Saving fuel while plowing

Less friction, less power, less fuel – plowshares coated with diamond-like carbon (DLC) slide through the soil like a hot knife through butter. As a result, the tractors pulling them need less power and ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Dengue vaccine could be ready by 2015: Sanofi

French drugs group Sanofi said Friday that its vaccine against dengue, a mosquito-borne infection that kills thousands of people around the world each year, could be launched in about four years.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Apple peel makes mice mighty

For Popeye, spinach was the key to extra muscle. For the mice in a new University of Iowa study, it was apples, or more precisely a waxy substance called ursolic acid that's found in apple peel.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Eye-witness identification may be attributed to bias

For the first time, eye-witness identifications are to be studied to determine if people avoid pointing the finger at someone they like in a police line-up.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Experimental nonsteroidal treatment of asthma shows promise

A new nonsteroidal, anti-inflammatory therapy made from a human protein significantly decreases disease signs of asthma in mice, opening the possibility of a new asthma therapy for patients who do not respond to current steroid ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hormone thought to slow aging associated with increased risk of cancer death

According to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM), older men with high levels of the hormone IGF-I (insulin-like growth factor 1) are at inc ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tips for avoiding, treating swine flu

Swine flu has surfaced in the United States, and people are bound to have many questions as the illness arrives a step closer to home. Dr. Mark Dworkin, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Illinois ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers take first look at the genetic dynamics of inbreeding depression

Researchers have taken a first look at the broad genetic changes that accompany reproductive declines in inbred populations. Although scientists have known for more than a century that small populations of ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Study shows how defective DNA repair triggers 2 neurological diseases

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have teased apart the biological details distinguishing two related neurological diseases—ataxia telangiectasia-like disease (ATLD) and Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS).

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0