Science Blog

Tuesday th 30th of November 2010

People with sleep apnea at higher risk for aggressive heart disease - 01:30

Vitamin D and calcium — updated dietary reference intakes from IOM - 01:30

Acupuncture changes brain’s perception and processing of pain - 01:00

Monday th 29th of November 2010

Apes unwilling to gamble when odds are uncertain - 17:30

Marsupial embryo jumps ahead in development - 17:30

Duke scientists look deeper for coal ash hazards - 17:30

Contact with dads drops when women ovulate - 17:30

Moderate alcohol consumption lowers the risk of metabolic diseases - 16:30

U of I scientists develop tool to trace metabolism of cancer-fighting tomato compounds - 16:30

Evolutionary psychology: Why daughters don’t call their dads - 16:30

How authentic is your pomegranate juice? - 16:30

Study: Avoidance, poor coping challenge prisoners returning to society - 16:30

Neuroscience of instinct: How animals overcome fear to obtain food - 16:30

Hormone oxytocin bolsters childhood memories of mom’s affections - 16:30

Abnormal blood vessel function found in women with broken heart syndrome - 15:30

Motivation to end racism relies on ‘yes we can’ approach - 15:30

Tempest in a teapot: International team of scientists describes swirling natural phenomena - 14:30

A ‘USB’ for medical diagnosis? - 14:30

Blast from the past: Jack pine genetics support a coastal glacial refugium - 14:30

From the brain of a locust - 13:30

Cinnamon can replace harmful chemicals used to create nanoparticles - 13:30

Number of HIV/AIDS cases in sub-Saharan Africa expected to greatly outpace resources - 13:00

Playing with building blocks of creativity help children with autism - 13:00

Fire forecast technology could help rescue teams save lives - 13:00

More lives saved with 24/7 enhanced staffing in medical ICU - 13:00

Bird-brained? Birds’ personalities are correlated with their hormone levels - 13:00

Subsurface scattering in point-based rendering - 13:00

How to avoid employee depression in a recession - 12:31

Color-changing ‘blast badge’ detects exposure to explosive shock waves - 12:30

Clarity in short-term memory shows no link with IQ - 12:30

Scientists discover new mechanism for controlling blood sugar level - 11:30

SOFC micro CHP plants to be climate-friendly power stations in homes - 11:30

Shape optimization of curved slots on 3-D surface - 11:30

Prescriptions for teens and young adults on the rise - 11:30

Scientists develop new DNA technique to aid crops and trees at risk from deadly ‘honey fungus’ - 11:30

Crucial sex hormones re-routed by missing molecule - 10:32

NC State and IBM researchers discover new way to patch holes in the ‘cloud’ - 10:32

Teenage girls face greater violence threat from poverty - 10:32

Confronting sexism may be ‘antidote’ for workplace distress - 10:32

New prostate cancer imaging shows real-time tumor metabolism - 10:32

The John Theurer Cancer Center to unveil 40 presentations at the 52nd ASH Annual Meeting - 10:32

Study suggests that being too clean can make people sick - 03:20

Diagnosis uncertainty increases anxiety in patients - 03:20

Women with personal history of breast cancer should be screened with MRI - 03:20

Walking slows progression of Alzheimer’s - 03:20

Light exercise may prevent osteoarthritis - 03:20

New study reports effects of endurance running - 03:20

Emergency departments see substantial increase in CT exams - 03:20

Bridging between Earth and space: technology breakthroughs for scientific progress - 03:20

First-ever covalent irreversible inhibition of a protease central to hepatitis C infection - 03:20