The
Mega Foundation
Science News
June 4, 2006
| HIQNews Home Page |
Science News Comments |
 |
Canadians Healthier Than Americans - Live Science ATLANTA (AP)— Americans are 42 percent more likely than Canadians to have diabetes, 32 percent more likely to have high blood pressure, and 12 percent more likely to have arthritis, Harvard Medical School researchers found, in a survey in which American and Canadian adults were asked over the telephone about their health. The study comes less than a month after other researchers reported that middle-aged, white Americans are much sicker than their counterparts in England. |
 |
What a Dozen Cloves of Garlic Will Do - Live Science Studies on the benefits of this food or that supplement often contradict each other, and the message can change over time. One new study on the potential benefits of garlic shows just how complex things can get and how important dosage is. Shela Gorinstein of the Hebrew University and colleagues fed rats garlic doses that ranged from 500 milligrams to 1,000 per kilogram of body weight. Only the 500-milligram dose lowered cholesterol and affected blood clotting. |
|
|
Hurricanes to Unleash Dormant, Hidden Power - Live Science Kerry Emanuel sparked a debate among his colleagues last year when he published a paper that linked global warming to the trend of increasingly stronger Atlantic Ocean hurricanes observed in recent decades. In a study to be published soon, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology climatologist will make another bold claim: The cycling of hurricane activity from high to low, which some scientists have attributed to a natural cycle in global weather patterns, is in fact caused by the rise and fall of pollution released by humans. Furthermore, Emanuel, along with Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, contend that the microscopic aerosol particles, which reflect sunlight and cool the atmosphere, have been masking the effect of global warming on Atlantic Ocean hurricanes for several decades. Meanwhile, other new research by Purdue University scientists supports Emanuel’s original finding and extends it to the entire globe. |
Am. Scientist
AlphaGalileo
Ananova
Arab Media
InternetNetwork
Anthropology
Assoc. Press
Astronomy
Artigen
AsiaWeek
Atlanta Journal
BBC
Beyond 2000
Boston Globe
Business Week
C/Net
CNN
Cosmiverse
Dallas News
Daily Tech
Digg
Duke
Discover
Economist
El.D&Tech.News
El. Engr. Times
EurekAlert!
First Science
Friday Times
Geology Today
Globe & Mail
Globe&Mail Tech
Globe&Mail Sci.
Gl.&Mail Health
HeadlineSpot
Human Nature
Industry Watch
L. A. Times
Live Science
Lycos Science
MedNews
MiddleEast Times
Milli Gazette
MSNBC
Nando
NASA - JPL
NASA - MSFC
Nature
Nat'l. Geo .
News Sites
New Scientist
NY Times
Physics Org
PhysicsWeb
Popular Mech.
Popular Sci.
Rutgers
Salon
Scien. American
ScienceCentral
Science Daily
Sci. Headlines
Science Matters
Science News
SciNews
SciTech
Seattle Times
Silicon Strategies
Space.com
SpaceDaily
Star- Malay
Technology Rev.
Technovelgy
Tech TV
Un.of N.Carolina
Univ. of Wisc.
Universe Today
USA Today
US News
Weekly Mirror
Wired
World Scientist
Yahoo
Biosciences:
6/4/2006: Poison Ivy Grows Faster, Bigger, More Irritating - Live Science
6/4/2006: Lady birds go wild for testosterone - MSNBC
6/4/2006: Mussel beds don't like it hot - New
Scientist
Geosciences, Environment:
6/4/2006: Science: Poison Ivy will likely thrive as global warming increases - C/Net
6/4/2006: Hurricanes to Unleash Dormant, Hidden Power - Live Science
6/4/2006: U.S. to test quake warning systems - MSNBC
6/4/2006: Cosmic
Log: Seismic setback - MSNBC
-
Nature
6/4/2006: Killer quake - New
Scientist
Computers:
Games and Devices
6/4/2006: LCD projector for $700 - C/Net
6/4/2006: Media: Geeks slug it out in 'fight club' - C/Net
6/4/2006: Gaming: Survey
says: PS3 too darned expensive
6/4/2006: Apple: 'Back to the Future' iPod speaker
6/4/2006: Tech
accessories: Diamonds for your nano, fine leather for your PDA - CNN
6/4/2006: Technology and magic meet in 'Rise of Legends' - CNN
6/4/2006: Apple punishes Samsung for iPod 'gaffe' - El.
Engr. Times
6/4/2006: Move it like Mario - New
Scientist
6/4/2006: Microsoft cooking up a gaming
handheld? - Seattle
Times
Hardware and Software
6/4/2006: Memory
Bulletin: NAND glut seen in '06 - El.
Engr. Times
Communications
6/4/2006: Next-generation Wi-Fi tech to deliver IPTV - C/Net
6/4/2006: Slingbox lands in Europe - C/Net
6/4/2006: China battles rejection of Wi-Fi encryption algorithm - C/Net
6/4/2006: • Social Networking Goes Mobile - C/Net
6/4/2006: • Sí
TV: Not Your Papi's Network - C/Net
Internet
6/4/2006: McAfee sends 'Falcon' after Symantec, Microsoft - C/Net
6/4/2006: Study: Online advertising up 38 percent in first quarter - C/Net
6/4/2006: Google's video replay - C/Net
6/4/2006: Feds put squeeze on Internet firms - CNN
Miscellaneous
6/4/2006: Digital piracy a menace to comic
heroes? - L. A. Times
6/4/2006: Microsoft plunging deeper into PC security - Seattle
Times
Energy:
6/4/2006: Hoku Scientific to sell solar modules, polysilicon - El.
Engr. Times
6/4/2006: Solar power - seriously souped up - New
Scientist
Health:
Cardiovascular
Cancer
Infectious
6/4/2006: Google enlisted to fight bird flu - C/Net
6/4/2006: •
Vaccines: Back on the Front Burner - C/Net
6/4/2006: Another tragedy strikes Indonesia
-
Nature
6/4/2006: UNAIDS: HIV infection rate has stabilised at last - New
Scientist
Non-Infectious
Miscellaneous
6/4/2006: • Gates Says It's Not the Motion - C/Net
6/4/2006: •
Retrospective: Weighing in On E3 - C/Net
6/4/2006: Canadians Healthier Than Americans - Live Science
6/4/2006: What a Dozen Cloves of Garlic Will Do - Live
Scienc
6/4/2006: The Most Important Exercise Tip - Live Science
6/4/2006: The
Appendix: Slimy But Not Worthless - Live Science
Prolongevity
History, Anthropology:
Miscellaneous:
6/4/2006: Sparring over techie fight club - C/Net
6/4/2006: McAfee's CFO out in options investigation - C/Net
6/4/2006: Court outlaws EU-U.S. passenger data transfer - C/Net
6/4/2006: The DVD war against consumers - Business
Week
6/4/2006: Billion-dollar babies - C/Net
6/4/2006: Debating the bugs of high-tech voting - C/Net
6/4/2006: Net ad spend poised to overtake national press - C/Net
6/4/2006: Digital jukeboxes crank out the tunes - CNN
6/4/2006: Rambus caught up in growing stock option scandal - El.
Engr. Times
6/4/2006: Sling Media brings place-shifting TV to Europe - El.
Engr. Times
6/4/2006: The ABCs of
IPOs: Easy-to-Pronounce Stocks Do Best - Live Science
6/4/2006: Bush's Treasury pick sought assurances of influential role - Seattle
Times
Neurosciences:
Alzheimers
Parkinsons
Other
6/4/2006: Heavy metals may be implicated in autism - New
Scientist
6/4/2006: Bipolar teens see hostility in neutral faces - New
Scientist
Physical Sciences:
6/4/2006: Satellite could open door on extra dimension - New
Scientist
6/4/2006: Physics: Are we nearly there yet - New
Scientist
Space and Astronomy:
6/4/2006: Mergers in private space travel - C/Net
6/4/2006: Lost luggage forces spacewalk rethink - New
Scientist
6/4/2006: Can bulldozers save Moonwalkers from solar
flares? - New
Scientist
6/4/2006: The Moon's highlands show their age - New
Scientist
6/4/2006: The Tricky Task of Aerobraking at Mars - Space.com
6/4/2006:
6/4/2006:
6/4/2006:
6/4/2006:
6/4/2006:
6/4/2006:
6/4/2006:
6/4/2006:
6/4/2006:
6/4/2006:
6/4/2006:
6/4/2006:
6/4/2006:
Technology:
6/4/2006: Why technology negotiations are different - C/Net
6/4/2006: Technology leaves teens speechless - USA Today
6/4/2006: Standards, costs keep docs from digital age - CNN
6/4/2006: Navy developing nanotech to improve ships - CNN
6/4/2006: Seertech to develop paper displays - El.
Engr. Times
6/4/2006: Mini fridge exploits brownian motion
-
Nature
6/4/2006: Simple sounds make for sound investments
-
Nature
6/4/2006: Carbon nanotubes pinned down at last - New
Scientist
6/4/2006: Invention: Mile-high showers - New
Scientist
6/4/2006: The next generation of prosthetic arms - New
Scientist
6/4/2006: Experts call for smarter seat belts - New
Scientist
6/4/2006: Another standards clash on the
horizon? - Seattle
Times
6/4/2006: Autonomous Software Improves Data Flow - Space.com