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• Today's Healthcare
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  How Superbug Spreads Among Regional Hospitals: A Domino Effect

  July 30, 2013 — A moderate increase in vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) at one hospital can lead to a nearly 3 percent increase in VRE in every other hospital in that county, according to a new ... > full story
• Diet and Weight Loss
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  Math Model Predicts Effects of Diet, Physical Activity on Childhood Weight

  July 29, 2013 — Researchers have created and confirmed the accuracy of a mathematical model that predicts how weight and body fat in children respond to adjustments in diet and physical ... > full story
• Software
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  Computer Scientists Develop 'Mathematical Jigsaw Puzzles' to Encrypt Software

  July 29, 2013 — Computer science experts have designed a system to encrypt software so that it only allows someone to use a program as intended while preventing any deciphering of the code behind it. This is known ... > full story
• Global Warming
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  Ice-Free Arctic Winters Could Explain Amplified Warming During Pliocene

  July 29, 2013 — Year-round ice-free conditions across the surface of the Arctic Ocean could explain why the Earth was substantially warmer during the Pliocene Epoch than it is today, despite similar concentrations ... > full story

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  • Arctic Sea Ice During the Pliocene Era
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  Cells Move as Concentration Shifts

  July 29, 2013 — Sheets of biological cells move along the organs they cover by altering the external concentrations of specific molecules. What do wound healing, cancer metastasis, and bacteria colonies have in ... > full story
• Chemistry
  Inorganic Chemistry
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  Nature of Water
   

  Seemingly Competitive Co-Catalysts Cooperate to Accelerate Chemical Reaction

  July 29, 2013 — Chemists report that a new and counterintuitive strategy, inspired by computational studies, opened the door to the development of a substantially more efficient chemical reaction from a highly ... > full story
• Quantum Physics
  Nature of Water
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  When Fluid Dynamics Mimic Quantum Mechanics

  July 29, 2013 — Researchers expand the range of quantum behaviors that can be replicated in fluidic systems, offering a new perspective on wave-particle ... > full story
• Albert Einstein
  Physics
  Quantum Physics
  Black Holes
  Cosmic Rays
  Optics
   
  

  Experimental Quest to Test Einstein's Speed Limit

  July 29, 2013 — Special relativity states that the speed of light is the same in all frames of reference and that nothing can exceed that limit. UC Berkeley physicists used a novel experimental system -- the unusual ... > full story
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  Cinderellas Reign in Final Four Ratings

  July 25, 2013 — Research shows that Cinderella teams boost Final Four ratings by 35 percent - 3 million more homes in a semifinal and 4.5 million in a title ... > full story
• Computer Modeling
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  Computer Can Infer Rules of the Forest

  July 25, 2013 — Researchers have devised a computer algorithm that takes intermittent samples -- for example, the number of prey and predating species in a forest once a year, or the concentration of different ... > full story

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