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Diabetes and Stem Cell Research: A Report From The World Ste...

Stem cells and diabetes are old friends, and if you’ve spent any time reading about diabetes, you probably have at least a vague sense that stem cells are important for a cure for diabetes. As a diabetic, then, I was pleased to atte [...]

Posted On : Oct, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

The world's top 100 universities ranked for medicine, biolog...

Harvard university has swept the board ranking highest in the world's top 100 universities for medicine, biological sciences and psychology with Cambridge and Oxford following closely behind. Once again, the elite American univer [...]

Posted On : May, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

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Posted On : Oct, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Ancient eruption 'killed off world's sea life'

A huge volcanic eruption in China some 260 million years ago led to the sudden extermination of marine life clear around the world, British paleontologists announced, in a report being published this week in the journal Science. The resea [...]

Posted On : May, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

The World of Science and Technology at Rutgers Day

Challenge your senses and test your mind. Let Rutgers scientists and engineers open doors for you to new worlds and let them guide you through the mysteries of virtual reality, forensics and pharmaceuticals. A world of wonder and exci [...]

Posted On : Apr, 17 2009 | Comments : 0

World Science Day is commemorated today.

World Science Day is commemorated today. The main these of this year is “science for development”. Accordingly, special awareness programmes will be implemented. Several programmes are organised by Ministry of Science and Techno [...]

Posted On : Nov, 10 2008 | Comments : 0

AMD Launches World's Fastest Motherboard GPU: AMD 790GX

AMD today announced the availability of the industry’s preeminent performance desktop platform, the AMD 790GX. Packing a host of innovations, the AMD 790GX integrates advanced performance tuning for AMD Phenom processors, plus ATI Rad [...]

Posted On : Aug, 08 2008 | Comments : 0

World First Double Arm Surgery

A middle-aged German man has had the world's first double arm transplant.And he has been given the arms of a teenage boy who is believed to have died in a car crash.The 54-year-old unnamed patient lost both of his arms in a farming accident [...]

Posted On : Jul, 31 2008 | Comments : 0

A Genetics Pioneer Who Mapped the Inner World

Insights from the fully transcribed human genome -- those 3 billion letters of DNA -- will drive the medical discoveries of the 21st century and probably the 22nd century as well. And yet the person most responsible for this astonishing adv [...]

Posted On : Jul, 24 2008 | Comments : 0

Microsoft's Worldwide Telescope Application Blasts Onto The ...

Microsoft has launched (an appropriate metaphor this time) its Worldwide Telescope desktop application. You must download the software, but then you're treated to a beautiful array of images and "guided tours" of the cosmos (see [...]

Posted On : May, 13 2008 | Comments : 0

Using Abstract Mathematics to Solve Real-World Problems

Dr. Roman Polyak is a fortunate man. In mathematics, his area of research, few get to see their discoveries translated into actual applications during their lifetime. Yet more than two decades after he first developed his theory and pub [...]

Posted On : May, 10 2008 | Comments : 0

Pakistan Causes Worldwide YouTube Outage

Most of the world's Internet users lost access to YouTube for several hours Sunday after an attempt by Pakistan's government to block access domestically affected other countries. The outage highlighted yet another of the Internet' [...]

Posted On : Feb, 26 2008 | Comments : 0

Science Bloggers Want to Save the World

As the temperature dropped in North Carolina this weekend, hundreds of science bloggers shared stories and ideas at the Sigma Xi headquarters in Research Triangle Park. While white flakes fell gently outside, panelists discussed topics ra [...]

Posted On : Jan, 22 2008 | Comments : 0

Climate change is endangering coral reefs around the world.

Global warming might seem like a distant threat to most people, but to coral reefs it’s a clear and present danger. Evolutionary ecologist Drew Harvell of Cornell says warm temperatures seem to weaken corals’ immune systems whil [...]