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Good code, bad computations: A computer security gray area
If you want to make sure your computer or server is not tricked into undertaking malicious or undesirable behavior, it's not enough to keep bad code out of the system. Two graduate students from UC San Diego's computer science department have just published work showing that the process of building bad programs from good code using... view more... (2008-10-28)
'Virtual' colonoscopy considerably more expensive
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researchers have found that "virtual" colonoscopy using a computer tomography (CT) scanner is considerably more expensive than the traditional procedure due to the detection of suspicious images outside of the colon. view more (2006-10-25)
SOHO discovers its 1500th comet
The ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft has just discovered its 1500th comet, making it more successful than all other comet discoverers throughout history put together. Not bad for a spacecraft that was designed as a solar physics mission. view more (2008-06-30)
Medicine and Biology at the Institute of Physics Congress Brighton Conference Centre, 27-30 March
In-Vitro Bio-Medical Sensing Monday 27 March 2000 Bodily fluids can be screened for the presence of infections by a range of tests using relatively simple technology. X-rays can analyse molecular structures and may be used to distinguish between healthy, benign and malignant breast tissue. In other areas of research, microtechnology is playing an... view more... (2000-03-23)
Blocking effects of viral infections may prevent asthma in young children
Babies who get severe respiratory viral infections are much more likely to suffer from asthma as they get older. view more (2007-11-08)
The Nose Knows: Two Fixation Points Needed for Face Recognition
Many of us are bad at remembering names but we are very quick to point out that at least we never forget a face. view more (2008-10-21)
Sussex psychologists study what causes children's fears and phobias
Dr Andy Field, lecturer in psychology and research fellow Robin Banerjee at the University of Sussex have just won a three-year grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to investigate how fears and phobias are formed. "A phobia is a clinically diagnosed level of fear about a particular thing or situation," says Dr... view more... (2002-01-21)
Sleep disturbances affect classroom performance
As a night of bad sleep can have an adverse effect on an adult's performance at work the next day, an insufficient amount of rest can also have a negative impact on how well middle or high school students perform in the classroom. view more (2007-02-15)
New Peritoneal Dialysis Diagnostic Discovered: Scientists Find Marker for Addressing Infection
Thanks to a discovery by scientists at Robarts Research Institute and The University of Western Ontario, patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis may soon be able to worry less about the risks of infection and lessen their hospital stays. view more (2007-10-18)
Tobacco companies engineer high addiction cigarettes with additives
Tobacco companies have added chemicals to cigarettes to increase the addictiveness of nicotine and keep smokers hooked. A new joint report by ASH, Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the US State of Massachusetts reveals over sixty tobacco industry documents dealing with the use of additives in cigarettes [1]. Over 600 tobacco additives are... view more... (1999-07-14)
Free-radical busting antioxidants might not promote healthy hearts
Antioxidants, such as beta-carotene and Vitamin E, have been touted for their ability to protect against heart disease. This protective effect is attributed to their ability to prevent the oxidation of bad cholesterol by free radicals-a process thought to contribute to the build-up of disease-causing fatty deposits on artery walls. view more (2006-04-10)
Music File Compressed 1,000 Times Smaller than MP3
Researchers at the University of Rochester have digitally reproduced music in a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a regular MP3 file. view more (2008-04-02)
Exercise test may help predict mortality risk in heart failure patients
A simple exercise test may help predict mortality risk in patients with heart failure and help doctors to better tailor treatment strategies, according to new research from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. view more (2007-05-31)
The mystery behind love-hate relationships
People who see their relationships as either all good or all bad tend to have low self-esteem, according to a series of seven studies by Yale researchers published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. view more (2006-06-09)
Found: Key 'go between' in heart disease
Medical researchers at UNSW have shed light on a little-known mechanism involved in the thickening of arteries, a process associated with heart disease. view more (2006-03-15)
The heart attack myth: Study establishes that women do have same the heart attack symptoms as men
The gender difference between men and women is a lot smaller than we've been led to believe when it comes to heart attack symptoms. view more (2009-10-26)
Tracking down the human 'odorprint'
Each of the 6.7 billion people on Earth has a signature body odor - the chemical counterpart to fingerprints - and scientists are tracking down those odiferous arches, loops, and whorls in the "human odorprint" for purposes ranging from disease diagnosis to crime prevention. view more (2009-10-15)
Negativity is contagious, study finds
Though we may not care to admit it, what other people think about something can affect what we think about it. This is how critics become influential and why our parents' opinions about our life choices continue to matter, long after we've moved out. view more (2007-10-05)
Higher risk of death in heart attack victims with no chest pain
An absence of chest pain during a heart attack increases the risk of death, shows research in Heart. Previous research shows that chest pain is not typical of a heart attack in around one in four patients. The study focused on 3684 admissions to 20 adjacent hospitals in Yorkshire for suspected heart attack for three months in 1995. In 2100 cases a... view more... (2001-10-12)
Old mystery solved, revealing origin of regulatory T cells that 'police' and protect the body
More than 150 years after the discovery of Hassall's corpuscles in 1849, the function of these round blobs of cells in the human thymus gland has now been explained. The answer, in turn, ends an intense hunt for the origin of regulatory T cells that has been under way for years. view more (2005-10-13)
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