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More smokers than non-smokers accept HPV vaccination... - 8 Feb 2010
IMAGE: Sally W. Vernon, Ph.D., is director of the Division of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences at the...
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Few women take tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer - 8 Feb 2010
IMAGE: Andrew N. Freedman, Ph.D., is chief of the Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Branch, Division of...
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Inhibiting serotonin in gut could cure osteoporosis - 7 Feb 2010
Finding, in animal model, offers proof of principle that inhibiting serotonin in the gut could become a novel treatment for 10s of millions of...
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Princeton scientist makes a leap in quantum computing - 5 Feb 2010
A major hurdle in the ambitious quest to design and construct a radically new kind of quantum computer has been finding a way to manipulate the...
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Renewable oil companies - 5 Feb 2010
The entry of oil companies into the realm of renewable energy could present major obstacles for the development of a sustainable economy that...
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Sweet! -- sugar plays key role in cell division - 5 Feb 2010
Using an elaborate sleuthing system they developed to probe how cells manage their own division, Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered that...
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Carnegie Mellon first to measure energy released... - 5 Feb 2010
PITTSBURGH—Within a virus's tiny exterior is a store of energy waiting to be unleashed. When the virus encounters a host cell, this...
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Road mapping could be key to curing TB - 5 Feb 2010
The complex chain of metabolic events in bacteria that lead to fatal diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) may be better understood using...
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Carbonate veins reveal chemistry of ancient seawater - 5 Feb 2010
Seawater chemistry IMAGE: Calcium carbonate veins are common in upper ocean crust, where they precipitate from...
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WIREs win 3 prizes at the PROSE awards - 5 Feb 2010
3 awards for Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews at the American Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence Hoboken NJ –...
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Prof. Stephen Hawking to visit Perimeter Institute... - 5 Feb 2010
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, February 5, 2010 – Dr. Neil Turok, Director of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), is...
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Cars of the future could be powered by their... - 5 Feb 2010
Scientists develop new composite material that could revolutionize car design and manufacturing Parts of a car's bodywork could one day double...
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New study finds possible source of beta cell... - 4 Feb 2010
Could hold the key to reversing the disease NORFOLK, Va. – Doctors at Eastern Virginia Medical School's Strelitz Diabetes Center have been...
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Rice physicists kill cancer with 'nanobubbles' - 4 Feb 2010
Team finds method of IDing, destroying individual diseased cells VIDEO: Rapidly expanding nanobubbles blasted...
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NIST's second 'quantum logic clock' based on... - 4 Feb 2010
Clock keeps time to 1 second in 3.7 billion years IMAGE: NIST postdoctoral researcher James Chin-wen Chou with...
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New ORNL system provides hybrid electric autos with... - 4 Feb 2010
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Feb. 4, 2010 -- An advancement in hybrid electric vehicle technology is providing powerful benefits beyond...
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$32 million CU-Boulder instrument package to study... - 4 Feb 2010
A $32 million University of Colorado at Boulder instrument package set for launch Feb. 9 by NASA should help scientists better Contact: Tom...
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Compound created at OSU could become important new... - 4 Feb 2010
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Chemists at Oregon State University have discovered and synthesized a new compound that in laboratory and animal tests...
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Research finds water movements can shape fish evolution - 4 Feb 2010
Researchers from the University of Minnesota have found that the hydrodynamic environment of fish can shape their physical form and swimming...
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First discovery of the female sex hormone... - 4 Feb 2010
IMAGE: Leaves of the walnut tree contain progesterone, the female sex hormone, discovered for the first time...
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Moss helps chart the conquest of land by plants - 4 Feb 2010
Molecular biology of drought tolerance comes into focus VIDEO: Research has revealed the biological mechanisms...
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Where did today's spiral galaxies come from? - 4 Feb 2010
IMAGE: The Hubble sequence six billion years ago was very different from the one astronomers see today. The...
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MIT researchers build first germanium laser - 4 Feb 2010
Step towards computers that use light instead of electricity to move data MIT researchers have demonstrated the first laser built from germanium...
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New material absorbs, conserves oil - 4 Feb 2010
Case Western Reserve University engineers target industry to oceans VIDEO: A new material made at Case Western...
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Aiming to the side - 4 Feb 2010
Weizmann Institute research reveals that flying bats apply the laws of sonar physics to locate objects in the...
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York study maps the effects of acupuncture on the brain - 4 Feb 2010
AUDIO: Dr. Hugh Macpherson, from the University of York, discusses new research into the effects of...
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Habit-learning device will lower energy bills under... - 4 Feb 2010
Smart control units that learn householders' energy habits and provide immediate feedback on consumption could give home energy savings of up...
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Forming the present-day spiral galaxies - 4 Feb 2010
IMAGE: This image created from data taken from both the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the Sloan Digital...
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4 ORNL researchers selected for Recovery Act early... - 4 Feb 2010
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Feb. 4, 2010 -- Four Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are among the 69 scientists that will receive five-year...
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Big book explores a small world: Stuart Lindsay's... - 4 Feb 2010
Stuart Lindsay, Arizona State University Regents' professor and director of the Biodesign Institute's Center for Single Molecule Biophysics,...
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