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Cell Phones Become Handheld Tools For Global Development

by mokosam on November 12, 2009

Mobile phones are on the verge of becoming powerful tools to collect data on many issues, ranging from global health to the environment.
Computer scientists at the University of Washington have used Android, the open-source mobile operating system championed by Google, to turn a cell phone into a versatile data-collection device. Organizations that want a fully [...]

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Heart Attacks Become More Common But Less Often Fatal In Women

by mokosam on November 10, 2009

Heart attacks appear to have become more common in middle-aged women over the past two decades, but all women and especially those younger than 55 have recently experienced a greater increase than men in their chances of survival following such a heart event, according to two reports in the October 26 issue of Archives of [...]

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Caught In The Act: Butterfly Mate Preference Shows How One Species Can Become Two

by mokosam on November 10, 2009

Breaking up may actually not be hard to do, say scientists who`ve found a population of tropical butterflies that may be on its way to a split into two distinct species.
The cause of this particular break-up? A shift in wing color and mate preference.
In a paper published this week in the journal Science, the researchers [...]

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Cancer Projected To Become Leading Cause Of Death Worldwide In 2010

by mokosam on December 9, 2008

Despite the recent good news that cancer incidence and death rates for men and women in the United States continue to decline, cancer is projected to become the leading cause of death worldwide in the year 2010, and low- and middle-income countries will feel the impact of higher cancer incidence and death rates more sharply [...]

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Quantum Trick Makes Metals Become Insulators

by mokosam on December 5, 2008

The investigation of complex materials such as high-temperature superconductors is problematic because of the presence of disorder and many competing interactions in real crystalline materials. "This makes it difficult to identify the role of specific interactions and, in particular, to decide whether repulsive interactions between electrons alone can explain high-temperature superconductivity," says Dr. Theodoulos Costi [...]

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