Pesticides Exposure Associated With Parkinson's Disease (June 26, 2006) -- A large-scale, prospective study has shown links between chronic, low-dose exposure to pesticides and Parkinson's ... > full story

Vega's Second Stage Motor Roars To Life (June 26, 2006) -- The European Space Agency's Vega small satellite launch vehicle has made a new step toward its maiden flight, late next year, with the success of the first firing test on its second stage motor, the ... > full story

Study Reveals How ADHD Drugs Work In Brain (June 26, 2006) -- Although millions depend on medications such as Ritalin to quell symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), scientists have struggled to pinpoint how the drugs work in the brain. ... > full story

Stealth Radar System Sees Through Trees, Walls -- Undetected (June 26, 2006) -- Ohio State University engineers have invented a radar system that is virtually undetectable, because its signal resembles random noise. The radar could have applications in law enforcement, the ... > full story

He Who Hesitates ... Might Get A Bargain (June 26, 2006) -- In the first article to examine bargaining behavior from a consumer perspective, researchers from the University of Maryland found that buyers gauge the success of a round of bargaining not by the ... > full story

Researchers Develop System To Thwart Unwanted Video And Still Photography (June 26, 2006) -- Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have completed a prototype device that can block digital-camera function in a given area. Commercial versions of the technology could be used to ... > full story

Cell Phone Emissions Excite The Brain Cortex (June 26, 2006) -- Electromagnetic fields from cell phones excite the brain cortex adjacent to it, with potential implications for individuals with epilepsy, or other neurological ... > full story

Researchers Get To Heart Of Tropical Disease (June 26, 2006) -- A new study found that mice lacking a gene crucial to the normal functioning of their immune systems didn't become ill when they were exposed to a pathogen that causes a horrendous infection in the ... > full story

Key To Early Diagnosis Of Autism May Be In The Placenta (June 26, 2006) -- Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered in the placenta what may be the earliest marker for autism, possibly helping physicians diagnose the condition at birth, rather than the ... > full story

New Model Suggests Antarctic More Dynamic Than Previously Believed (June 26, 2006) -- Through dated geological records scientists have known for decades that variations in the Earth's orbit around the sun control ice ages. But, for the first 2 million years of the Northern Hemisphere ... > full story

Elephants, Large Mammals Recover From Poaching In Africa's Oldest National Park (June 26, 2006) -- A recent wildlife census conducted in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) revealed that several species of large mammal are now recovering from a decade of civil war and ... > full story

Device Burns Fuel With Almost Zero Emissions (June 25, 2006) -- Georgia Tech researchers have created a new combustor (combustion chamber where fuel is burned to power an engine or gas turbine) designed to burn fuel in a wide range of devices with next to no ... > full story

Fluid Research To Help Warfighters, Civilians (June 25, 2006) -- With research funded by the Department of Defense, two scientists have taken novel approaches with IV resuscitation fluids to find ways to save Soldiers' and civilians' lives. Joseph Messina of the ... > full story

Spider Silk Researchers Uncover Treasure Trove Of Genetic Information About The Wonder Fibers (June 25, 2006) -- Scientists seeking the genetic origins of spider orb-web silks have discovered evidence indicating that wagon-wheel shaped nets are extremely old, so old that dinosaurs may have seen them. The ... > full story

Gene Associated With Both Susceptibility And Disease Progression In Rheumatoid Arthritis (June 25, 2006) -- New research, announced recently at the 7th EULAR annual congress, reveals the Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase N22 (PTPN22) gene is associated not only with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease ... > full story

World's Coral Reefs Left Vulnerable By Paper Parks (June 25, 2006) -- Of the 18.7% of tropical coral reefs that lie within "Marine Protected Areas," less than 2% are extended protection complete with regulations on extraction, poaching and other major threats, ... > full story

People Keep Driving Even When Sleepy (June 25, 2006) -- People continue to drive even when they know they are sleepy, suggests a large study published on the web site of the British Medical Journal. This has important implications for public safety, say ... > full story

Why Is The Universe More Partial To Matter Than Antimatter? (June 24, 2006) -- A new milestone in the quest to understand the matter-antimatter imbalance in our universe has been reached with experiments aimed at understanding the "unitarity triangle" at the Stanford Linear ... > full story

Viagra Improves High Altitude Exercise Performance Up To 45% For Some (June 24, 2006) -- Sildenafil (Viagra) significantly improved the cardiovascular and exercise performance measures of trained cyclists at high altitude, mostly because the drug helped some participants improve a lot ... > full story

First Surveys Of Tanzanian Mountains Reveal 160+ Animal Species, Including New & Endemic (June 24, 2006) -- The first field surveys of the Rubeho Mountains in Tanzania revealed over 160 animal species--including a new species of frog and eleven endemic species--according to an article published in the ... > full story

New Therapy May Mean Less Dietary Restrictions For Celiac Sufferers (June 24, 2006) -- Scientists have discovered what may be a successful non-dietary therapy for celiac sprue, an inherited inflammatory disorder of the small intestine that impacts an estimated 1 in 200 people around ... > full story

Diamond By-product Of Hydrogen Production And Storage Method (June 24, 2006) -- There may not be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but there appears to be nanocrystalline diamonds at the end of a process to produce and store hydrogen using anthracite ... > full story

Earliest Known 'Bling' Revealed (June 24, 2006) -- Fresh analysis of beads made from seashells by a team led by a UCL (University College London) researcher reveals that modern humans used jewellery at least 25,000 years earlier than previously ... > full story

YOU: The Owner's Manual : An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger
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If there ever was a pair of docs who can make the small intestine seem truly intriguing, here they are. Dr. Mehmet Oz is an alternative-medicine maverick and a cardiologist known to implement acupuncture during open-heart surgery. Dr. Michael ... > read more

Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid ... > read more

Stumbling on Happiness
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Do you know what makes you happy? Daniel Gilbert would bet that you think you do, but you are most likely wrong. In his witty and engaging new book, Harvard professor Gilbert reveals his take on how our minds work, and how the limitations of our ... > read more

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. ... > read more

The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
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Composition teachers throughout the English-speaking world have been pushing this book on their students since it was first published in 1957. Co-author White later revised it, and it remains the most compact and lucid handbook we have for matters ... > read more

The Great Deluge : Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
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Bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley, a professor at Tulane University, lived through the destruction of Hurricane Katrina with his fellow New Orleans residents, and now in The Great Deluge he has written one of the first complete accounts of that ... > read more

The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two (Revised and Updated Edition)
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In their excellent (and hefty) resource guide, The Baby Book, attachment parenting specialists William Sears and Martha Sears have provided new parents with their approach to every aspect of baby care basics, from newborns to toddlers. Attachment ... > read more