University of Manchester researchers have identified a genetic variant in a region on chromosome 6 that is associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the most common inflammatory arthritis affecting 387,000 people in the UK.
Breastfeeding boosts infants' IQs, but only if the babies have a genetic variant that enhances their metabolism of breast milk, a Yale researcher and collaborators report today.
Research in Zanzibar,Tanzania, where people with malaria have had free access to ACT since late 2003 and children under five years old and pregnant women have been given free ITNs since early 2006, has found a remarkable fall in the number of children dying from malaria.
Look, if the OLPC can be used to surf for porn , why would this surprise anyone? These are Macbooks, after all ... built-in webcam ... and as Apple likes to say, great for multimedia!
Three years after the United Nations called for a Green Revolution in Africa, a renowned group of speakers will share the promise of fighting hunger in Africa through agricultural productivity.
Is this the worst possible bug ever in an OS? Possibly not, but at least it's not Windows, for once. In Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), if you use Finder to move files (not copy), and for some reason the connection to the drive is lost (let's say you lose your wi-fi connection; somehow knock your USB flash drive out, etc. etc.), the data which was not already copied will be lost. It's as though the OS thought the copy completed successfully and it deletes the source files.
Physician-scientist Wilhelm Reich, best known for his claims of a cosmic life force associated with sexual orgasm, died in federal prison, and the government burned tons of his books and other publications and destroyed his equipment. But half a century later, a small number of scientists and other believers are working to advance the European-born psychiatrist's work on what he called "orgone energy" - a theory largely forgotten in the scientific mainstream.
When the stars are shining above the atmosphere, they give off radiation across a wide spread of wavelengths. As Earth rotates, the star appears to sink down. When that happens, the atmosphere acts as a filter, blocking out certain wavelengths of the star’s radiation. While nice to see with your girlfriend, of importance to astronomers is that the blocked wavelengths are representative of the molecules and atoms in the planet’s atmosphere.
