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Science, Medicine and Technology
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November 29th - 11:30
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Science, Medicine, Technology


Science

 
  1. Supersize elements created in lab
  2. Biofuels 'crime against humanity'
  3. Monkeys reveal brain is hard-wired for counting
  4. BBC NEWS | Health | Gene controls response to sweat
  5. Stress, Pain, and Paris Hilton
  6. Adding Color Untangles the Brain’s Gray Secrets
  7. Cognitive Dissonance
  8. Drug calms violent rats
  9. False memories show up in the brain
  10. Eye contact and a smile will win you a mate
  11. Being Overweight Isn't All Bad, Study Says
  12. Amusing pain, elevating music, and other jewels from the Society for Neuroscience meeting: Sciam Observations
  13. Intelligent Design on Trial
  14. Are Cigarettes More of a Drag on Teens than Marijuana?
  15. Imaging Neural Progenitor Cells in the Living Human Brain
  16. Thinking caps reveal how pigeons find their way
  17. A future where your brain is better
  18. Smarty Gene: Breast-fed kids show DNA-aided IQ boost
  19. Glia Stoke Morphine's Fires
  20. Handshake: Window on Your Genes?
  21. Gaze 'key to facial attraction'
  22. Clue to cosmic rays discovered
  23. Bat techniques could find tumours
  24. Curvy women may be a clever bet
  25. In DNA Era, New Worries About Prejudice
  26. Climate scepticism: The top 10
  27. Discovery News : Discovery Channel
  28. Scientists Zero in on the Cellular Machinery that Enables Neurons to Fire
  29. Study Compares States’ Math and Science Scores With Other Countries’
  30. Envious monkeys can spot a fair deal
  31. Low-intensity MRI takes first scan of a human brain
  32. Bat noses inspire robotic sonar
  33. Queen Bees Control Sex of Young After All
  34. Does Death Penalty Save Lives? A New Debate
  35. Pregnancy link to active children
  36. Clue to cosmic rays discovered
  37. Doomsday vault begins deep freeze
  38. Babies 'show social intelligence'
  39. Glia Stoke Morphine's Fires
  40. Handshake: Window on Your Genes?
  41. Low-intensity MRI takes first scan of a human brain
  42. Fly dads sire sexy sons
  43. Ability to read others' emotions can withstand memory loss, study suggests
  44. Thinking caps reveal how pigeons find their way
  45. Envious monkeys can spot a fair deal
  46. Imaging Neural Progenitor Cells in the Living Human Brain
  47. Scientists Zero in on the Cellular Machinery that Enables Neurons to Fire
  48. In DNA Era, New Worries About Prejudice
  49. Study Compares States’ Math and Science Scores With Other Countries’
  50. Mind of a Rock
  51. National Endowment for the Arts
  52. Decline of the Tenure Track Raises Concerns
  53. Human Cloning
  54. New Stem Cell Method Could Ease Ethical Concerns
  55. Man Who Helped Start Stem Cell War May End It
  56. Proposed Ban on Genetically Modified Corn in Europe
  57. Creationism - Geology - Rocks and Minerals - Science - Evolution - Earth
  58. When Night Falls at School, Should Darwin Go Home? - New York Times
  59. Freud Is Widely Taught at Universities, Except in the Psychology Department
  60. Breast-fed kids show DNA-aided IQ boost
  61. Hold the Embryos: Genes turn skin into stem cells
  62. Scientists Fault Climate Exhibit Changes
  63. Strange but True: Antibacterial Products May Do More Harm Than Good
  64. In Study of Brain Evolution, Zeal and Bitter Debate
  65. The Dance of Evolution, or How Art Got Its Start
  66. After Stem-Cell Breakthrough, the Work Begins
  67. Freud Is Widely Taught at Universities, Except in the Psychology Department
  68. Jonah Lehrer's Proust Was a Neuroscientist overstates the case.
  69. First-ever 'State of the Carbon Cycle Report' Finds Troubling Imbalance National Science Foundation (NSF)
  70. Clean, Carbon-Neutral Hydrogen on the Horizon
  71. Climate Change



Medicine  Top, Science, Medicine, Technology

  1. Troops assessed for brain injury
  2. Helmet Design Absorbs Shock in a New Way
  3. A Wake-Up Call for Coffee Drinkers
  4. Be thin to cut cancer, study says
  5. Getting the Most From Your Shrink
  6. The Claim: Cayenne Peppers Can Cure Headaches
  7. Seasons 'affect blood pressure'
  8. Exercise on the Brain
  9. Placenta 'fools body's defences'
  10. Simple therapy 'best for backs'
  11. Women drinkers are fit to burst
  12. Vitamin D 'may help slow ageing'
  13. A future where your brain is better
  14. Vioxx settlement to total $4.85bn
  15. Drugs for ADHD 'not the answer'
  16. Concern over menstrual blood bank
  17. Fresh case of bird flu in turkeys
  18. ADHD Brain Delay
  19. Are Antimicrobial Soaps Breeding Tougher Bugs?m
  20. Fat pills give modest weight loss
  21. Heroin clinic 'reduces drug use'
  22. Gene therapy treats Parkinson's
  23. Vitamin D 'may help slow ageing'
  24. Is Lincoln Earliest Recorded Case of Rare Disease?m
  25. Fresh case of bird flu in turkeys
  26. Australian men find solace in a shed
  27. Brain scans 'may detect OCD risk'
  28. Obesity 'may distort cancer test'
  29. Concern over menstrual blood bank
  30. 'Later puberty' in stable family
  31. Drugs for ADHD 'not the answer'
  32. Are Antimicrobial Soaps Breeding Tougher Bugs?m
  33. Exercise on the Brain
  34. Is Alzheimer’s Diabetes?: Science Videos
  35. Fat pills give modest weight loss
  36. Dogs to sniff out owner diabetes
  37. Simple therapy 'best for backs'
  38. At a Cigar Show, an Air-Quality Scientist Under Deep, Smoky Covers
  39. Unlocking the Benefits of Garlic
  40. A future where your brain is better
  41. ADHD Brain Delay
  42. Vioxx settlement to total $4.85bn
  43. Placenta 'fools body's defences'
  44. Women drinkers are fit to burst
  45. Big Rise in Cost of Birth Control on Campusess
  46. Depression Linked to Bone-Thinning in Premenopausal Women
  47. A Theory That Raises Questions - washingtonpost.com
  48. Patterns: Stress Disorder’s Ties to Asthma Pose Mystery
  49. Amputees 'regain sense of touch'
  50. Blood cell transfusions 'up risk'
  51. 'Super' scanner shows key detail
  52. Lifespan link to depression drug
  53. City living 'breast cancer risk'
  54. Smoking increases 'baldness risk'
  55. Good Germs, Bad Germs by Jessica Snyder Sachs - Drug Resistant Bacteria
  56. Stronger warning of mental issues from flu drug
  57. One in 10 suffers 'hospital harm'
  58. 'Supermouse' bred to beat cancer
  59. Drug maker accepts FDA's new Tamiflu warning


Technology  Top, Science, Medicine, Technology

  1. For a Devotee of Solar Energy, a Shot at Earning Respectmes
  2. Coming of age for 'future fibres'
  3. Technology, the Stealthy Tattletale
  4. Digital Music to Please Even the Snobs
  5. Last Supper gets 16bn pixel boost
  6. Gears of War wins Joystick awards
  7. Microsoft buys stake in Facebook
  8. New kind of 'vampire' sucks power out of homes
  9. Gene therapy sees early success for neurodegenerative disease
  10. Hello, India? I Need Help With My Math
  11. The Future of Solar-Powered Homes
  12. For a Devotee of Solar Energy, a Shot at Earning Respect
  13. Coming of age for 'future fibres'
  14. Technology, the Stealthy Tattletale
  15. Digital Music to Please Even the Snobs
  16. Last Supper gets 16bn pixel boost
  17. Gears of War wins Joystick awards
  18. Microsoft buys stake in Facebook
  19. New kind of 'vampire' sucks power out of homes
  20. Gene therapy sees early success for neurodegenerative disease
  21. Hello, India? I Need Help With My Math
  22. The Future of Solar-Powered Homes
  23. Getting the measure of a kilogram
  24. '$100 laptop' begins production
  25. Wind-up lights for African homes
  26. Robot cars race around California
  27. Graphics chips rev up research results
  28. Outing for giant military rocket
  29. Graphics chips rev up research results
  30. California sues US over car fumes
  31. Shrinking chips use novel recipe
  32. Social networkers warned of risk
  33. In Korea, a Boot Camp Cure for Web Obsession
  34. A Deeply Green City Confronts Its Energy Needs and Nuclear Worries s
  35. New kind of 'vampire' sucks power out of homes
  36. Technology, the Stealthy Tattletale
  37. Coming of age for 'future fibres'
  38. Colossus loses code-cracking race
  39. Getting the measure of a kilogram
  40. In Eco-Friendly Factory, Low-Guilt Potato Chips
  41. Gears of War wins Joystick awards
  42. Hello, India? I Need Help With My Math
  43. Shrinking chips use novel recipe
  44. '$100 laptop' begins production
  45. Microsoft buys stake in Facebook
  46. Gene therapy sees early success for neurodegenerative disease
  47. Tinkering at Home, Selling on the Web es
  48. In pictures: Transistor history
  49. Scientists harvest fish oil crop
  50. For a Devotee of Solar Energy, a Shot at Earning Respect
  51. Digital Music to Please Even the Snobs
  52. The Future of Solar-Powered Homes
  53. Social networkers warned of risk
  54. Outing for giant military rocket
  55. Graphics chips rev up research results
  56. Kidizoom Camera From VTech
  57. California sues US over car fumes
  58. Wind-up lights for African homes
  59. Sweden Turns to a Promising Power Source, With Flaws
  60. Science adviser urges GM rethink
  61. Homes 'can cut CO2 by up to 80%'
  62. Mathematicians' role in market mayhem
  63. Politics 'stifling $100 laptop'
  64. Round 2 for Biotech Beets
  65. Google's cheaper-than-coal target
  66. 20 Gadgets You Wantn
  67. Yahoo to put adverts in PDF files
  68. Nasa outlines manned Mars vision


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