Indirubin, the active ingredient in a traditional Chinese herbal medicine, might offer a new strategy…
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Scientists model physics of a key dark-energy probe: Simulations improve characterization of cosmology’s ‘standard ruler’
Researchers are leveraging powerful supercomputers to investigate one of the key observational probes of “dark…
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Researchers urge awareness of dietary iodine intake in postpartum Korean-American women who consume brown seaweed soup
Researchers have brought attention to the potential health impacts for Korean and Korean-American women and…
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Low dose naltrexone: Harnessing the body’s own chemistry to treat human ovarian cancer
Researchers have discovered that a low dose of the opioid antagonist naltrexone (LDN) markedly suppresses…
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Zeus Trojan hits Android smartphones
A strain of the notorious bank account-hijacking Zeus Trojan has been found on Android smartphones,…
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Zeus Trojan hits Android smartphones
A strain of the notorious bank account-hijacking Zeus Trojan has been found on Android smartphones,…
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Cancer mortality rates are higher in men than women in U.S., study finds
Overall cancer mortality rates are higher for men than women in the United States, according…
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Computer learns language by playing games
Researchers have created a system that allows a computer to learn to play a computer…
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Goalies tend to dive right in World Cup penalty shoot-outs when their team is behind … why?
In the quarterfinal of the 2006 Soccer World Cup, England and Portugal played for 90…
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Deeper insight in the activity of cortical cells
Scientists can now image the processing of information deeper in the cortex with the help…