This week is International Fraud Awareness Week, and there’s no better time to brush up…
Month: November 2011
Combination ‘epigenetic’ therapy may restore anti-cancer gene activity in late-stage lung cancer patients
A new type of therapy aimed at reversing the gene-silencing that promotes cancer-cell growth has…
Kawasaki disease linked to wind currents: First evidence that long-range wind transport of an infectious agent might result in human disease
Kawasaki Disease (KD) is a severe childhood disease that many parents, even some doctors, mistake…
Exploring the last white spot on Earth
Scientists will soon gain new insight into matter at conditions so extreme it can only…
Hubble uncovers tiny galaxies bursting with starbirth in early Universe
Using its infrared vision to peer nine billion years back in time, astronomers have uncovered…
Nano car has molecular 4-wheel drive: Smallest electric car in the world
Reduced to the max: the emission-free, noiseless 4-wheel drive car, jointly developed by Swiss researchers…
Biological clock controls activation of skin stem cells
A new study reveals the role of the daily biological clock (circadian rhythms) in the…
Report: Android and iOS mobile gaming revenue now beats that of Sony and Nintendo (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends – What a turnaround. The 20-year dominance of Nintendo and Sony in the…
Online coupon company WhaleShark raises $150 million (Reuters)
Reuters – Online coupon company WhaleShark Media has raised $150 million in financing from JP…
Simulating black hole radiation with lasers: Lasers produce the first Hawking radiation ever detected
A team of Italian scientists has fired a laser beam into a hunk of glass…