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Spotlight Stories Headlines
- New material gives visible light an infinite wavelength- Can thermodynamics help us better understand human cancers?
- Juno spacecraft resumes full flight operations on its way to Jupiter
- Four genetic variants linked to esophageal cancer and Barrett's esophagus
- Database of disease genes shows potential drug therapies
- Non-infiltrating bladder cancer exome sequenced
- Researchers identify key proteins that help establish cell function
- Researchers 'fish new pond' for antibiotics
- US universities make big bets on startups
- Nobel economists: Masters of theory, if not of practice
- Growing backlash to government surveillance
- First test of Venice's 5.4 billion euro flood barriers
- Qualcomm's brain-inspired chip: Good phone, good robot
- Rosetta: 100 days to wake-up (w/ Video)
- US Army seeks 'Iron Man' armor for commandos
Space & Earth news
6.4 earthquake hits Trinidad, no reports of damage
The University of the West Indies' Seismic Research Center is reporting an earthquake hit Friday night northwest of Trinidad.
Iran plans new monkey space launch
Iran is planning to send another live monkey into space within a month, a top space official said in remarks reported by media Sunday.
Juno spacecraft resumes full flight operations on its way to Jupiter
(Phys.org) —NASA's Juno spacecraft, which is on its way to Jupiter, resumed full flight operations earlier today. The spacecraft had entered safe mode during its flyby of Earth last Wednesday. The safe mode did not impact the spacecraft's trajectory one smidgeon. This flyby provided the necessary gravity boost to accurately slingshot the probe towards Jupiter, where it will arrive on July 4, 2016.
Rosetta: 100 days to wake-up (w/ Video)
(Phys.org) —ESA's comet-chasing mission Rosetta will wake up in 100 days' time from deep-space hibernation to reach the destination it has been cruising towards for a decade.
First test of Venice's 5.4 billion euro flood barriers
Flood-prone Venice on Saturday carried out the first test of its 5.4 billion euro ($7.3 billion) barrier system known as "Moses", designed to protect the Renaissance city from rising sea levels.
Technology news
Yahoo acquires ad-service, URL-shortner Bread
Yahoo said Saturday that it acquired tech company Bread, a URL shortner that allows users to design then target advertisments to readers who click on their links.
US Army seeks 'Iron Man' armor for commandos
US Army researchers are working on building hi-tech body armor that would give soldiers "superhuman strength" in a real-life version of the suit featured in "Iron Man" films.
Qualcomm's brain-inspired chip: Good phone, good robot
(Phys.org) —This month, chipmaker Qualcomm opened up about its progress and goals in work on a brain-inspired chip architecture. The results are impressive. Computers that can mimic the human brain pose a challenge that attracts many computer scientists. While some people take comfort in the difference between computers and humans, such scientists see the difference as a challenge and ask if the gap can be narrowed. Qualcomm, for one, is working away at a computer architecture modeled after the brain, imitating brain processes. In a recent blog posting, Samir Kumar, Qualcomm director business development, presented his overview of the company's Zeroth processors, which are brain–inspired.
Growing backlash to government surveillance
From Silicon Valley to the South Pacific, counterattacks to revelations of widespread National Security Agency surveillance are taking shape, from a surge of new encrypted email programs to technology that sprinkles the Internet with red flag terms to confuse would-be snoops.
US universities make big bets on startups
Just before graduating from the University of Michigan, Calvin Schemanski began his start-up.
Medicine & Health news
UN alarmed at polio threat in Sudan border region
The U.N. Security Council is expressing alarm at the imminent threat of the spread of polio through Sudan's violence-wracked South Kordofan and Blue Nile states and the continuing outbreak of polio in the Horn of Africa.
Obamacare a success so far? It's hard to say
After more than a week in action, is President Barack Obama's health care overhaul a success or a bust? It's hard to say because there's hardly any data.
Thousands stage Paris 'die-in' to protest asbestos risk
Thousands of people staged a "die-in" in Paris on Saturday over authorities' failure to clear workplaces of asbestos, which can cause fatal respiratory diseases after long exposure.
Psychological interventions halve deaths and CV events in heart disease patients
Psychological interventions halve deaths and cardiovascular events in heart disease patients, according to research from Athens, Greece, presented at the Acute Cardiac Care Congress 2013.
Heart attack patients return to work later and retire earlier if treatment is delayed
System delay in treating patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) postpones their return to work and increases early retirement, according to research presented at the Acute Cardiac Care Congress 2013 by Kristina Laut, PhD student from Aarhus, Denmark.
Study shows that diet and lifestyle advice for those with diabetes should be 'no different' from that for general public
New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes [EASD]) suggests that lifestyle advice for people with diabetes should be no different from that for the general public, although those with diabetes may benefit more from that same advice. The research is by Dr Diewertje Sluik, Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany, and colleagues.
Cancer in EU cost EUR126 billion in 2009
The results, published in The Lancet Oncology, reveal substantial disparities between different countries in the EU in spending on health care and drugs for cancer, with Luxembourg and Germany spending the most on health care for cancer per person, and Bulgaria spending the least. Overall, expenditure on drugs for cancer accounted for around a quarter of the total cost (€14 billion). Spending on cancer medications as a percentage of health care costs was lowest in Lithuania, and highest in Cyprus.
Women in labor may be fine taking in nourishment, study finds
(HealthDay)—There may be good news for moms-to-be: A new study finds that women in labor and delivery may not have to forgo all nutrition or rely solely on ice chips to rehydrate, as is typically the case now.
Could a neck injection ease tough-to-bear hot flashes?
(HealthDay)—A shot in the neck may curb extreme hot flashes associated with menopause, a small new study suggests.
Single gene may predict mental decline after heart surgery
(HealthDay)—A certain gene appears to increase risk for mental decline after heart surgery, a new study suggests.
In a surprise finding, gene mutation found linked to low-risk bladder cancer
An international research team led by scientists from Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has discovered a genetic mutation linked to low-risk bladder cancer. Their findings are reported online today in Nature Genetics.
Four genetic variants linked to esophageal cancer and Barrett's esophagus
An international consortium co-led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Australia has identified four genetic variants associated with an increased risk of esophageal cancer and its precursor, a condition called Barrett's esophagus.
Non-infiltrating bladder cancer exome sequenced
Bladder cancer represents a serious public health problem in many countries, especially in Spain, where 11,200 new cases are recorded every year, one of the highest rates in the world. The majority of these tumours have a good prognosis—70-80% five-year survival after diagnosis—and they do not infiltrate the bladder muscle at the time of diagnosis—in around 80% of cases.
Database of disease genes shows potential drug therapies
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have created a massive online database that matches thousands of genes linked to cancer and other diseases with drugs that target those genes. Some of the drugs are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, while others are in clinical trials or just entering the drug development pipeline.
Can thermodynamics help us better understand human cancers?
(Medical Xpress)—When the "war on cancer" was declared with the signing of the National Cancer Act in 1971, identifying potential physical traits, or biomarkers, that would allow doctors to detect the disease early on was a significant goal. To this day, progress in the battle against cancer depends on understanding the underlying causes and molecular mechanisms of the disease.
Biology news
Researchers identify key proteins that help establish cell function
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have developed a new way to parse and understand how special proteins called "master regulators" read the genome, and consequently turn genes on and off.
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