When treating hospitalized children with acute osteomyelitis — a bacterial bone infection — an early…
Month: February 2009
NASA-Funded Carbon Dioxide Map Of U.S. Released On Google Earth
Interactive maps that detail carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion are now available on…
Nanoscopic Changes To Pancreatic Cells Reveal Cancer
Scientists have developed a way to examine cell biopsies and detect never-before-seen signs of early-stage…
How We Keep Visual Details In Short-term Memory
People voluntarily pick what information they store in short-term memory. Now, using functional magnetic resonance…
Sony counting on software; Nintendo’s new portable (AP)
AP – Real news from the virtual world:
Vertu Opens First Japan Store (PC World)
PC World – Vertu, the luxury cell phone brand created by Nokia, has opened its…
When Dreaming Is Believing: Dreams Affect People’s Judgment, Behavior
While science tries to understand the stuff dreams are made of, humans, from cultures all…
Cosmological Simulations Key To Understanding The Universe
Physicists are harnessing the power of supercomputing to recreate how galaxies are born, how they…
When Acute Hepatitis Develops Into Chronic Hepatitis
Researchers demonstrate how the immune system reacts to a hepatitis B infection. Hepatitis B is…
Gut Parasites That Can Infect Humans May Be Widespread In Domestic And Wild Animals
The gut protozoans Giardia duodenalis and various species of Cryptosporidium are extremely contagious single-celled parasites…