CHICAGO (Reuters) – New mammogram screening guidelines from an influential panel of U.S. experts reaffirm earlier guidance that breast cancer screening should begin at age 50 for most women, but …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Day: April 20, 2015
Mindfulness therapy as good as medication for chronic depression – study
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LONDON (Reuters) – Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) may be just as effective as anti-depressants in helping prevent people with chronic depression from relapsing, scientists said on Tuesday. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Type, frequency of e-cigarette use linked to quitting smoking
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LONDON (Reuters) – Two new studies looking at whether electronic cigarettes help smokers to quit their deadly habit have found that while some of them can, it depends on the …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Black hole hunters tackle a cosmic conundrum
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Astrophysicists have not only proven that a supermassive black hole exists in a place where it isn’t supposed to be, but in doing so have opened a new door to …read more Source:: Science
Getting a better grasp of primate grip
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Scientists are coming to grips with the superior grasping ability of humans and other primates throughout history. In a new study, a research team found that even the oldest known …read more Source:: Science
Technology can transfer human emotions to your palm through air, say scientists
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Human emotion can be transferred by technology that stimulates different parts of the hand without making physical contact with your body, a study has shown. For example, short, sharp bursts …read more Source:: Science
Microsoft readies first developer preview of its new microservices Service Fabric
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Microsoft’s Service Fabric will target first ISVs and startups building public cloud applications, and later come to Windows Server and Linux. …read more Source:: Linux
Tiniest circuits: Light-controlled molecule switching
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Researchers have succeeded in light-controlled molecule switching. Scientists are working on storing and processing information on the level of single molecules to create the smallest possible components that will combine …read more Source:: Science
Cold Spot suggests largest structure in Universe: A supervoid 1.3 billion light years across
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In 2004, astronomers examining a map of the radiation left over from the Big Bang discovered the Cold Spot, a larger-than-expected unusually cold area of the sky. The physics surrounding …read more Source:: Science
Solving the Free Software Liability Conundrum
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By editor@techworld.com (Glyn Moody) As you may have noticed, a lot of software has a lot of bugs. Even open source code has them, but the main damage tends to come from certain well-known, …read more Source:: Open Source