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Science, Medicine and Technology
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April 28th - 11:30am
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Science

 
  1. Crew in Moscow to Simulate Part of a Flight to Mars
  2. Giant laser experiment powers up
  3. Guest Column: Computers vs. Brains - Olivia Judson Blog
  4. Chicks Do Arithmetic
  5. A Well-Timed Reminder Helps Erase Scary Memories
  6. Brain Power - Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory
  7. How scratching can stop an itch
  8. A Wiring Diagram in the Brain for Depression
  9. Game Simulations Answer Baseball’s What-Ifs
  10. Mind - When All You Have Left Is Your Pride
  11. Observatory - A Soak Extracts DNA and Leaves an Old Bug Intact
  12. From Developing Limbs, Insights That May Explain Much Else
  13. Visual Science - A New Look at Race and Natural Selection
  14. Testosterone boost doesn't fuel risky behaviour in women
  15. Chimpanzees exchange meat for sex
  16. Food memories 'influence tastes'
  17. What You See Is What You Feel 
  18. Women pick up body odour better 
  19. Scientists find 'pleasure nerves' 
  20. Evidence That Mice Produce Egg Cells After Birth
  21. Scientist at Work - John Grunsfeld - Last Voyage for Hubble’s Keeper
  22. A "video game" to reduce aggression 
  23. The Anatomy of the Mesolimbic Reward System: A Link between Personality and the Placebo Analgesic Response
  24. Writing About Values Lifts Some Students’ Grades
  25. Coral Study in Mexico Suggests Rapid Sea Rise From Warmin
  26. Ants inhabit 'world without sex' 
  27. Apples' autumn colour change clue 
  28. Seemingly Misplaced DNA Acts As Lenses 
  29. Spirit Is Ailing But Still Running
  30. A Nose for Disease -- Thomas
  31. How Room Designs Affect Your Work and Mood
  32. The Green Issue - Why Isn’t the Brain Green?
  33. Eye 'Patch' - Sleep Cycles - Autism & Vitamin D
  34. Morning Birds Buckle Under Sleep Pressure
  35. Scientist at Work - Anna Dornhaus - Researcher Studies Ants and Bees, One by One
  36. Brain imaging skewed : Nature News 
  37. Fatty foods 'offer memory boost'
  38. Invoking the Sputnik Era, Obama Vows Record Outlays for Research

Medicine  Top, Science, Medicine, Technology


  1. Taking Age Stereotypes To Heart
  2. Stem cell 'deafness cure' closer
  3. The vaccine/autism theory may be dead, but the treatments live on
  4. Heart Muscle Renewed Over Lifetime, Study Finds
  5. Research Links Poor Children's Stress and Brain Impairment
  6. DNA Test Outperforms Pap Smears
  7. Findings - Public Policy That Makes Test Subjects of Us All
  8. House Dust Yields Clue to Asthma - Roaches
  9. Autism Rates Are Higher for U.S.-Born Somali Children in Minneapolis
  10. Vital Signs - Regimens - Tai Chi Shows Promise as a Stroke Therapy
  11. Diabetes 'impact on brain power'
  12. Eye 'compensates for blind spot'
  13. Oral allergy syndrome may explain mysterious reactions
  14. Diabetes 'impact on brain power' 
  15. 'Double whammy' malaria drug hope 
  16. Women's 'binge tan' cancer risk 
  17. Spray for 'six times longer' sex 
  18. Oral sex linked to throat cancer 
  19. Einstein and Newton 'had autism' 
  20. Rural Doctor Finds Benefits in Electronic Medical Records
  21. Drug offers hope on Alzheimer's 
  22. Prenatal Testing of Thyroid Is Debated
  23. A Deadly Germ Unleashed by Antibiotics - Well Blog
  24. Well - Stomach Bug, C. Difficile, Crystallizes Antibiotic Threat
  25. Jail Time Increases Odds of Hypertension, Researchers Find
  26. Heroin Addiction Drug May Relieve Symptoms of Fibromyalgia
  27. Guidance Counselor - Learning Disabilities - Stepping Up to the Challenge
  28. Health 
  29. Home births 'as safe as hospital'
  30. Stem cells 'can treat diabetes'
  31. Local, State Agencies Lack Resources to Ensure Food Safety
  32. Study: Is Vegetarianism a Teen Eating Disorder?
  33. Well - What Are Friends for? A Longer Life
  34. More Wii Warriors Are Playing Hurt
  35. Birth Ratio Favoring Boys Seems to Vary by Latitude
  36. Stephen Hawking Hospitalized
  37. More Wii Warriors Are Playing Hurt
  38. Avian Flu Cases in Egypt Raise Alarms
  39. Mind - To Fight Stigmas, Start With Treatment
  40. Really? - The Claim - Weight Training Is Bad for Blood Pressure - Question
  41. A Reporter at Large: Brain Gain: Reporting & Essays
  42. Rapid Emotional Swings Could Precede Violence 
  43. Painkiller 'no Alzheimer's block'
  44. What If Vitamin D Deficiency Is a Cause of Autism?
  45. F.D.A. Approves Monthly Injectable Arthritis Drug
  46. Health and Wellness - Well Blog
  47. BBC NEWS | Health | Child behaviour 'linked to sleep' 
  48. Books - Snapshots From the Days of Bare-Hands Anatomy
  49. With Aid of Johns Hopkins Drug Library, New Remedies From Old
  50. Women Who Keep Ovaries After Hysterectomy Live Longer
  51. Drugs to Lower Antibody Levels Expand Kidney Transplants
  52. Vital Signs - Enforcing Law on Cigarette Sales Cuts Teenage Smoking
  53. A.D.H.D. Drugs Linked to Higher Test Scores - Well Blog
  54. Assessing the Danger of New Strain of Swine Flu
  55. Avodart, Prostate Drug, Found to Reduce Cancer Risk
  56. Breast-Feeding Benefits Mothers, Study Finds
  57. Shortage of Doctors an Obstacle to Obama Goals
  58. F.D.A. Easing Access to ‘Morning After’ Pill


Technology



  1. Concrete Being Remixed With Environment in Mind
  2. Behind the Wheel - 2010 Toyota Prius - Hybrid Superstar Shines Brighter
  3. Wind-powered car breaks record
  4. Google to venture into start-ups
  5. China Vies to Be Leader in Electric Vehicles
  6. Economy Takes the Controls From Some Video-Game Pros
  7. Thin and Inexpensive Netbooks Affect PC Industry
  8. Hal, Call Your Office - Computers That Act Like Physicists
  9. Investors Drop Bid to Build Power Lines From Upstate to New York City
  10. Hoping to Make iPhone Toys as a Full-Time Job
  11. Digital Domain - Web-Based Competition for Microsoft Word
  12. Microsoft’s Netbook Conundrum
  13. Will the iPhone 3.0 Fuel a Second Gold Rush?
  14. G.M. Conjures Up a People-Moving Pod
  15. Macs Aren’t Safer, Just a Smaller Target
  16. Video Game Review - Nintendo DSi - More Than Just Games in Nintendo’s New Toy
  17. Microsoft Encarta Dies After Long Battle With Wikipedia
  18. T-Mobile to Use Google Software in Devices for Home
  19. Cameras With Time-Machine Powers - Pogue’s Posts Blog
  20. State of the Art - HD Radio Is Crying Out to Be Heard
  21. Keeping Up With Being Kept - Making it Easy for "Sugar Daddies" to Connect With "Sugar Babies"
  22. From the Desk of David Pogue - Cameras With Time-Machine Powers
  23. Spies 'infiltrate US power grid' 
  24. PlayStation outsells Wii in Japan 
  25. ‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers
  26. Novelties - On the Lookout, With a Digital Security Camera
  27. Report Says Small-Car Buyers Sacrifice Safety for Fuel Economy
  28. Small Cars Rate Poorly in New Crash Tests - Wheels Blog
  29. State of the Art - The Quest to Shrink the S.L.R.
  30. E.P.A. to Clear the Way for Regulation of Warming Gases
  31. Apple Tops PC Customer Service Rankings
  32. Germans protest over pig patent 
  33. Creating a panoramic experience
  34. Vitamin deficiency asthma 'link' 
  35. The Green Issue - Batteries Not Included 
  36. Aerodynamics on Land - Aiming for 800 M.P.H.
  37. Findings - Use Energy, Get Rich and Save the Planet
  38. In Sun, Oracle Sees a Software Gem 
  39. Google News, and More, on a Timeline
  40. Now You Can Change What Google Says About You
  41. Improved Lithium Ion Battery Technology Could Fast-Charge Electric Vehicles, Boost Acceleration
  42. Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate
  43. Tunbridge Wells Journal - Holdouts for Humble Bulb Defy a Government Phase-Out
  44. Novelties - Eyeglasses With a Digital Dimension
  45. Apple Says No to Netbooks - Gadgetwise Blog
  46. Unboxed - Verizon’s Experiment in Volunteer Customer Service
  47. Whatever Happened to the Top 15 Web Properties of April, 1999?
  48. Opera Mini Continues Its Path for Global Domination
  49. Apple Said to Be in Talks to Sell IPhone for Verizon
  50. Cablevision Goes for U.S. Broadband Speed Record - Bits Blog
  51. G.E.’s Breakthrough Can Put 100 DVDs on a Disc
  52. Universities get $5 million in grants to use IBM/Google cloud
  53. First Android netbook to cost about $250

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