Ripples in solid materials act like the bizarre particles long sought by scientists
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Researchers have identified a gene that acts as a master switch to control obesity in mice. When the switch is turned off, even high-fat-diet mice remain thin.
Vaccinating women against the human papillomavirus may prevent some forms of breast cancer and save tens of thousands of lives each year, new Australian research suggests.
One way to maximize the eco-friendly factor of a structure is to include a green roof. “Greening” a roof, or covering a roof with vegetation, is gaining popularity in North America, where the number of green roofs increased 30 percent from 2006 to 2007. Benefits of green roofs include improved storm water management, energy conservation, [...]
Directly inhibiting the activity of a key protein mediator of inflammation reduced radiation toxicity in zebrafish embryos, and may ultimately be of help to patients receiving radiation therapy, according to researchers.
Google’s algorithm for ranking web-pages can be used to determine which species are critical for sustaining ecosystems. Now researchers find that “PageRank” can be applied to the study of food webs, the complex networks describing who eats whom in an ecosystem.
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The public health measures taken in response to swine flu may be seen as alarmist, overly restrictive, or even unjustified, says one U.S. expert who argues that our plans for pandemics need to take into account more than the worst case scenarios, and calls for a new framework for thinking about epidemic disease.
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