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If you have started using the hand sanitizers as a precaution against the disease carrying germs, especially in the wake of the panic created by last year’s swine flu pandemic, think twice before purchasing them next time.
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eggsIt’s an age-old puzzle that’s stumped generations of scientists. But now they believe they have cracked the conundrum of what came first: the chicken or the...
made popular Jul 15 2010
Glycerin, a common biodiesel waste product, has become so abundant amid the rise in biofuel use that producers often have to pay to dispose of the chemical. Researchers...
made popular Oct 21 2008
Researchers have discovered a mechanism for the rapid growth seen in infantile hemangioma, the most common childhood tumor.
made popular Oct 20 2008
Everything is supposed to be green these days. Your car, your home, your overall lifestyle. Sorry to say that I really can’t offer any advice on where to find energy...
made popular Oct 13 2008
Cyborgs are moving out of science-fiction and into the real world. With an increasing number of first world citizens suddenly turning up missing limbs, due to some...
made popular Oct 13 2008
IN ECONOMIC theory the winner’s curse refers to the idea that someone who places the winning bid in an auction may have paid too much. Consider, for example, bids to...
made popular Oct 10 2008
Crystallized carbon has caused all kinds of trouble throughout human history, with the shiny rocks causing (and continuing to cause) bloodshed and strife by their high...
made popular Oct 9 2008
There may be no such thing as a ’safe’ tan based on ultraviolet (UV) radiation, according to a series of papers published in the October issue of Pigment...
made popular Sep 20 2008
MIT researchers are developing a new kind of autonomous wheelchair that can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its occupant to a given...
made popular Sep 20 2008
Risking being scooped and having patents refused, some scientists are posting their data online as they produce them.
made popular Sep 17 2008
North Carolina State University has just been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to create the National Research Center for Future Renewable Energy...
made popular Sep 11 2008
Computer researchers built a tool that demonstrates how hackers could silently turn Facebook users into a powerful zombie army that can attack other websites or scout...
made popular Sep 7 2008
A new analysis done by researchers from the University of Michigan has determined that captive breeding colonies of a critically endangered Asian vulture, whose numbers...
made popular Sep 7 2008
Two vaccines against cervical cancer are being widely used without sufficient evidence about whether they are worth their high cost or even whether they will...
made popular Aug 21 2008
As science races to confront terrorism with new technology, researchers are unveiling a new generation of devices featuring ever-more sophisticated sensors to quickly...
made popular Aug 20 2008
Who can forget the historical sci-fi moment when the Dr Emmet Brown of “Back to the Future” fame shoved some garbage into his time car to make it run?
made popular Aug 6 2008
Organisms ranging from humans to plants to the lowliest bacterium use molecules to communicate.
made popular Aug 2 2008
While scientists and physicians know what happens if you don’t get six to eight hours of shut-eye a night, investigators have long been puzzled about what...
made popular Jul 31 2008
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A study of forensic psychiatric patients in Michigan - half of whom were deemed unfit to stand trial and half of whom were found not guilty through insanity - revealed...
made popular Jul 27 2008
Like humans with a nose for the best restaurants, roundworms also use their senses of taste and smell to navigate. And now, researchers may have found how a...
made popular Jul 24 2008
LSU scientist Huiming Bao, along with colleagues from UCLA and China, recently discovered some of the first atmospheric evidence in support of the “Snowball Earth”...
made popular Jul 13 2008
A group of US researchers laid out the foundations Monday for a new online library on human genetics stored within the existing framework of open-access encyclopedia...
made popular Jul 10 2008
Fishing in the stream of consciousness, researchers now can detect our intentions and predict our choices before we are aware of them ourselves. The brain, they have...
made popular Jun 28 2008
The brains of people with the memory-robbing form of dementia are cluttered with a plaque made up of beta-amyloid, a sticky protein. But there long has been a question...
made popular Jun 23 2008
European researchers said on Monday they discovered a batch of three “super-Earths” orbiting a nearby star, and two other solar systems with small planets...
made popular Jun 16 2008
Scientists have been aware for many years that if cancer patients are not able to deal with the stress associated with being sick, the cancer will progress faster than...
made popular Jun 10 2008
Criminals, beware! Researchers have for the first time identified human DNA in household dust — a breakthrough which they claim could be used in future to trap...
made popular Jun 2 2008
The Vikings buried on the Danish island of Funen may very well have sailed all the way to Constantinople or Baghdad or Moscow, looting and pillaging with lusty...
made popular May 28 2008
Researchers at HP Labs have built the first working prototypes of an important new electronic component that may lead to instant-on PCs as well as analog computers that...
made popular May 1 2008
It was just a matter of time: Researchers from the ETH Zurich breached the iPhone’s/iPod’s Wi-Fi positioning system and found that the technology is...
made popular Apr 16 2008
Hormone surges among City traders could be partly responsible for driving “boom and bust” economics, say researchers.
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Researchers have discovered that molecules in aging bones are unable to remain in step with one another during the complex molecular dance that results in healthy...
made popular Apr 11 2008
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