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A Hidden Architecture: Researchers Use Novel Methods to Uncover Gene Mutations for Common Diseases
March 25, 2012 Human geneticists have debated whether the genetic risk of the most common medical conditions derive from many rare mutations or common differences throughout the genome that modestly influence risk. ... > full story -
Physicists Simulate Strongly Correlated Fermions
March 18, 2012 Combining known factors in a new way, physicists have solved an intractable 50-year-old problem: How to simulate strongly interacting quantum systems to accurately predict their properties. It could ... > full story -
Research Examines Momentum in the NFL
March 15, 2012 Is the existence and effect of momentum real, or is it a sports superstition? New research analyzes five years’ worth of plays in the ... > full story -
Market Exchange Rules Responsible for Wealth Concentration, Physicists Say
March 7, 2012 Physicists have shown that wealth concentration invariably stems from a particular type of market exchange rules -- where agents cannot receive more income than their own capital. The authors ... > full story -
Elusive Higgs Boson May Nearly Be Cornered
March 7, 2012 New measurements indicate that the elusive Higgs boson may nearly be cornered. After analyzing the full data set from the Tevatron accelerator, which completed its last run in September 2011, the two ... > full story -
T. Rex Has Most Powerful Bite of Any Terrestrial Animal Ever
February 28, 2012 Research, using computer models to reconstruct the jaw muscle of Tyrannosaurus rex, has suggested that the dinosaur had the most powerful bite of any living or extinct terrestrial ... > full story -
Noninvasive Method Accurately and Efficiently Detects Risk of Down Syndrome, Researchers Say
February 21, 2012 Using a noninvasive test on maternal blood that deploys a novel biochemical assay and a new algorithm for analysis, scientists can detect, with a high degree of accuracy, the risk that a fetus has ... > full story -
Brain Makes Call on Which Ear Is Used for Cell Phone
February 21, 2012 A new study finds a strong correlation between brain dominance and the ear used to listen to a cell phone, with more than 70 percent of participants holding their cell phone up to the ear on the same ... > full story -
Extreme Summer Temperatures Occur More Frequently in U.S. Now, Analysis Shows
February 15, 2012 Extreme summer temperatures are already occurring more frequently in the United States, and will become normal by mid-century if the world continues on a business as usual schedule of emitting ... > full story -
Computer Program Scores 150 in IQ Test, Swedish Researchers Demonstrate
February 14, 2012 Intelligence -- what does it really mean? In the 1800s, it meant that you were good at memorizing things, and today intelligence is often measured through IQ tests where the average score for humans ... > full story
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