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Identifying Aggressive Breast Cancers by Interpreting the Mathematical Patterns in the Cancer Genome
August 23, 2012 It is now possible to identify aggressive breast cancers by interpreting the mathematical patterns in the cancer ... > full story -
Predicting Outbreaks of Dengue Fever According to Climate
August 22, 2012 Dengue fever, transmitted by the Aedes mosquito, affects hundreds of millions of people in around one hundred tropical countries and causes 25,000 deaths per year. In the absence of a vaccine, ... > full story -
Computer Program Recognizes Any Language
August 21, 2012 New technology that allows computers to recognize any language without pre-learning stands to revolutionize automatic speech ... > full story -
Drastic Desertification: Researchers Study Dead Sea Climate Past, Finding Dramatic Results
August 21, 2012 The Dead Sea, a salt sea without an outlet, lies over 400 meters below sea level. Tourists like its high salt content because it increases their buoyancy. "For scientists, however, the Dead Sea ... > full story -
Model Shows Dramatic Global Decline in Ratio of Workers to Retired People
August 20, 2012 A new statistical model predicts that by 2100 the number of people older than 85 worldwide will increase more than previously estimated, and there will be fewer working-age adults to support them ... > full story -
Gamma Rays from Galactic Center Could Be Evidence of Dark Matter
August 13, 2012 Gamma-ray photons seen emanating from the center of the Milky Way galaxy are consistent with the intriguing possibility that dark-matter particles are annihilating each other in space, according to ... > full story -
Quantum Cryptography Theory Has a Demonstrated Security Defect
August 10, 2012 Researchers have just demonstrated the incompleteness and limit of the security theory in quantum key distribution. The present theory cannot guarantee unconditional ... > full story -
Plenty of Dark Matter Near the Sun
August 9, 2012 Astronomers have found large amounts of invisible "dark matter" near the Sun. Their results are consistent with the theory that the Milky Way Galaxy is surrounded by a massive "halo" of dark matter, ... > full story -
Research Links Extreme Summer Heat Events to Global Warming
August 6, 2012 A new statistical analysis by NASA scientists has found that Earth's land areas have become much more likely to experience an extreme summer heat wave than they were in the middle of the 20th ... > full story -
Research May Lead to New Approach to Detect Prostate Cancer
August 3, 2012 An undergraduate student’s technique for detecting certain metabolites in urine samples could lead to a simpler and more accurate way to test for prostate ... > full story
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