Extremely small nanoscale particles are released by common kitchen appliances in abundant amounts, greatly outnumbering…
Month: November 2008
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Alzheimer’s Gene Slows Brain’s Ability To Export Toxic Protein
The only known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease slows down the brain’s ability to…
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How Eating Red Meat Can Spur Cancer Progression: New Mechanism Identified
Researchers have shown a new mechanism for how human consumption of red meat and milk…
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Time to focus on climate change
International Herald Tribune: As world leaders gather in Washington, they would do well to remember…
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Parallels 4.0 Bridges OS Universes
Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac became available recently. If you live mostly in one computing…
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Young Britons ‘shy from science’
A survey commissioned by the European Commission has shown that young Britons are among the…
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Sector Snap: Activision, EA decline (AP)
AP – Shares of Activision Blizzard Inc. and Electronic Arts Inc. declined Friday after October’s…
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Extrasolar Planets Get Spot in Hubble Photo Album
Earth seems to have its first fuzzy photos of alien planets outside our solar system,…
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Indian probe lands on Moon
India’s first unmanned lunar spacecraft, Chandrayaan 1, places a probe on the surface of the…
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Controllers Cheer As Data Arrive From NASA’s Spirit Rover
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit communicated via the Mars Odyssey orbiter Nov. 13 right at…