Futile veterinary care is widespread, study finds
When faced with terminal illness in their pets, some owners would do anything to prolong their lives.
When faced with terminal illness in their pets, some owners would do anything to prolong their lives.
Veterinary medicine
May 31, 2022
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As concern about online privacy grows, Mozilla is promising to let people cloak Internet activity in free Firefox Web browsing software being released early next year.
Software
Dec 19, 2010
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Among corporations involved in the 2006 stock-option backdating scandal, those implicated earlier were more likely to dismiss their top executives than those that surfaced later on, according to new research from Rice University ...
Economics & Business
Feb 1, 2012
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There's a reason Wall Street resembles a rocket experiment gone wrong: rocket scientists helped make it happen.
Mathematics
Apr 7, 2009
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You may have heard in the recent media that the world was going to end. Uh, again. Worse still, the devastation wasn't limited to Earth; the whole universe might end. Bad news, right? And you thought 2012 was the year to ...
General Physics
Feb 28, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Researchers at the University of Southampton in the U.K. have devised a means for using nanoparticles to cause angiogenesis (the growth of new blood vessels) to speed up or slow down. In their paper published ...
Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have developed a highly successful vaccine against a heroin high and have proven its therapeutic potential in animal models.
Biochemistry
Jul 20, 2011
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Scientists have used CRISPR gene-editing technology to successfully block the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in infected human cells, according to research released Tuesday that could pave the way for COVID-19 treatments.
Biotechnology
Jul 13, 2021
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More restaurants and vending machines offer healthy choices these days, so why do Americans' waistlines continue to expand? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research shows that some efforts to control eating may backfire.
Social Sciences
Apr 20, 2009
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The danger of acquiring a computer virus or spyware used to come with the risk of visiting the dark, sketchy corners of the Internet. But now trusted and harmless smartphone apps like MyFitnessPal and Candy Crush carry their ...
Software
Feb 23, 2016
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