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Jilted fruit flies drink to forget by on Mar 18, 2012California- Frustrated male fruit flies, whose sexual advances are rejected by females, turn to alcohol to drown their sorrows, a study revealed. Study at the University of California, San Francisco finds rejected male flies have a tiny neuropeptide...

The World’s Famous Gates by A Traveler's Tales on Dec 10, 2011Have you ever wondered why gates were built during the medieval times and what are those famous gates? This compact article will answer those questions. Amsterdamse Poort photo link The last remnant of Haarlem’s mediaeval defensive walls, Amste...

Officers in pepper spray incident put on leave by Fresh News Buzz on Nov 20, 2011University of California Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi who was involved in a pepper spraying incident was put on administrative leave as investigation goes on.Katehi said she is taking full responsibility for the incident but insist she will not resi...

Global warming ‘confirmed’ by independent study by on Oct 21, 2011The Earth’s surface really is getting warmer, a new analysis by a US scientific group set up in the wake of the “Climategate” affair has concluded. The Berkeley Earth Project has used new methods and some new data, but finds the sam...

TB smoking toll ‘could reach 40m’ by on Oct 5, 2011Forty million smokers could die from TB by 2050, research suggests. Smokers are about twice as likely to get the lung infection and die from it, compared with non-smokers. Many of the new TB cases will be in Africa, the eastern Mediterranean and Sout...

TB smoking toll ‘could reach 40m’ by on Oct 5, 2011Forty million smokers could die from TB by 2050, research suggests. Smokers are about twice as likely to get the lung infection and die from it, compared with non-smokers. Many of the new TB cases will be in Africa, the eastern Mediterranean and Sout...

DOST explores GM mosquito applications against dengue by on Sep 14, 2011Part of its advocacy to find solutions against dengue, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) explores the possibility of using genetically-modified mosquito (GMM) to curb the population of dengue-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. In a conf...

Graphene is now a reality by zaiblog on Oct 21, 2010Spin Computer to enable graphene. Finally, somebody realized that we should step up the way we make computers and continue to break Moore’s Law. “We found a 30-fold increase in the efficiency of how spins were being injected by quantum tunnel...

Artificial ‘E-Skin’ May Soon Help Robots ‘Feel’ by .•:*¨*:•.K.•:*¨*:•. on Sep 16, 2010Artificial ‘E-Skin’ May Soon Help Robots ‘Feel’ Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a new technology that may help robots feel, give the sense of touch back to those with prosthetic limbs, and u...

Compounds fend off Alzheimer’s disease amyloid pathology by .•:*¨*:•.K.•:*¨*:•. on Sep 8, 2010Compounds fend off Alzheimer’s disease amyloid pathology A team of scientists, led by University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers, has synthesized hundreds of new compounds with the potential of reducing the production of...