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Zinc Deficiency Linked To Increased Risk Of Less--Common Form Of Esoph
Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, have found that zinc deficiency in humans is associated with an increased risk of developing esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, an often-fatal form of esophageal cancer that has about 7,000 cases a year. Grokster Goes Down
In a surprise move, the company settles a piracy lawsuit by taking down its file-sharing service. A new fee-based version of its software will be available from a new parent company. Low carbon straw house passes fire safety test
A newly designed straw house -- built of pre-fabricated straw-bale and hemp panels -- has fire resistance as good as houses built of conventional building materials, according to researchers in the UK. Sudoku Classic
Archive of sudoku puzzles, published six days a week, ranging from easy to difficult. Sudoku (a puzzle popular in Japan, and now gaining popularity in the U.K. and the U.S.) has one rule, "place the numbers from 1 to 9 in each row, in each column and each 3x3 box."From the Guardian Unlimited, the online companion to the British newspaper The Guardian. Lesser Of Two Evils: When Do We Prefer To Get Rid Of Things?
The theory of loss aversion is used in many contexts to explain why potential loss has a greater mitigating influence on behavior than potential gain. In trading situations, consumers will most likely opt to keep what they have, tending to place a larger value on the items already in their possession (also known as the "endowment effect"). However, these theories generally assume that consumers like what they have enough to want to keep it. What happens when we're in possession of something we hate? Penn Researchers Take A Big Step Forward In Making Smaller Circuits
In the race to take advantage of the amazing electric properties of nanotubes, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania developed a new method to create functional nanotube circuits. The physicists overcame some of hurdles of working with nanotubes -- particularly their size -- by dipping semiconductor chips into liquid suspensions of carbon nanotubes. Their findings represent a big step toward creating things like nanoscale chemical sensors, flexible electronics and high-density microprocessors. Quick Microchip Test For Dangerous Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
Researchers have developed microchips capable of quickly and cheaply identifying dangerous and drug resistant bacteria in clinical samples, scientists recently announced. One dose of H1N1 vaccine may provide sufficient protection for infants
One dose of vaccine may be effective to protect infants and children and reduce transmission of the H1N1 virus, according to a new study. Scientists Discover Influenza's Achilles Heel: Antioxidants
As the nation copes with a shortage of vaccines for H1N1 influenza, a team of Alabama researchers have raised hopes that they have found an Achilles' heel for all strains of the flu -- antioxidants. In a new study, they show that antioxidants -- the same substances found in plant-based foods -- might hold the key in preventing the flu virus from wreaking havoc on our lungs. Facts for Features Special Edition: Launch of Sputnik I and Start of t
Facts and statistics marking the 50th anniversary in 2007 of the launch "by the Soviet Union on Oct. 4, 1957 [of] Sputnik I ... the first satellite to be put into orbit. The launch ignited the 'Space Race' between the United States and Soviet Union."Data covers the aerospace industry, U.S.-Russia trade, and population of the U.S., Soviet Union and Russia, and Brevard County, Florida (home of Cape Canaveral). From the U.S. Census Bureau.
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