Noteworthy Web Articles: December 2012
Wellness News You Can Use
- Cheap vitamin D 'would boost health'
- Ancient foot massage may ease cancer symptoms
- Device Helps Children with Disabilities Access Tablets
- Antibiotics 'ineffective for coughs'
- Family meals 'boost child fruit and vegetable intake'
- Physicians' empathy raises patients' pain tolerance
- Got food allergies? Thanks to UCLA, you can test your meal on the spot using a cell phone
- Study: Home air conditioning cut premature deaths on hot days 80 percent since 1960
- Squirrels and Birds Inspire Researchers to Create Deceptive Robots
- Salk scientists develop faster, safer method for producing stem cells
- Multitasking plasmonic nanobubbles kill some cells, modify others
- DNA Analysis of Microbes in a Fracking Site Yields Surprises
- In the Loop: The Sounds of Space: New “Chorus” Recording By RBSP’s EMFISIS Instrument
- Organic metamaterial flows like a liquid, remembers its shape
- A Tiny Transforming Robot Inspired by Protein (and Junkyard Magnets)
- C. diff spread 'fast and easy'
- DNA mapping for cancer patients
- Honey bees' genetic code unlocked
- Porcupine's prickly defence mystery solved
- Are bald men more virile?
- International Team of Green Scientists, Including Carnegie Mellon's Terry Collins, Proposes Safety Testing System for Development of New Chemicals
- Individual cells respond to electrical signal
- Tiny structure gives big boost to solar power
- Tallow Candle: Hans Christian Andersen's 'first work'
- Characteristics of U.S. Science and Engineering Doctorates Detailed in New Report
- Bringing fossils to life
- Mussel goo inspires blood vessel glue
- More than 3,000 epigenetic switches control daily liver cycles
- New technology allows scientists to capture and preserve cancer cells circulating in the bloodstream
- Hybrid tunnel may help guide severed nerves back to health
- Capturing circulating cancer cells could provide insights into how disease spreads
- Nasa to test space-sleep colour-changing lights
- Virus rebuilds heart's own pacemaker in animal tests
- Berkeley Lab Scientists Developing Quick Way to ID People Exposed to Ionizing Radiation
- NC State Study Offers Insight Into Converting Wood to Bio-Oil
- Team solves mystery associated with DNA repair
- Capturing circulating cancer cells could provide insights into how disease spreads
- Virus rebuilds heart's own pacemaker in animal tests
- Trojan-horse therapy 'completely eliminates' cancer in mice
- Two bowel cancer genes discovered
- Energy Department Announces New SunShot Investment in Solar Energy Grid Solutions
- Dragonflies have human-like 'selective attention'
- New Meteorite Suggests that Asteroid Surfaces More Complex than Previously Thought
- Scripps Florida Scientists Create New Approach to Destroy Disease-Associated RNAs in Cells