After 6.4 billion U.S. dollars of U.S. arms sale to Taiwan in January, some members of the Chinese armed forces have defended the use of China’s considerable holdings of U.S. Treasuries as a weapon to retaliate against the United States. In a recent article in Chinese magazine Outlook Weekly, senior army officers at the military [...]

Forget iris and fingerprint - scanning nose could be a faster and easier to verify the identity of a person, according to scientists at the University of Bath.
With concerns about illegal immigration and identity theft, authorities are increasingly using the physical characteristics of an individual, known as biometrics, to confirm his identity.
Unlike other facial features [...]

Young adults who have used cannabis or marijuana for a long period of time are more likely to have hallucinations or delusions or to meet the criteria for psychosis, according to a report posted online that appears in the May print edition of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA / Archives journals.
Previous studies [...]

Iowa State University Distinguished Professor of Psychology Craig Anderson has made much of the work of his life studying how to play violent video games affect young people’s behavior. And he says a new study led the analysis of 130 research reports on over 130,000 individuals worldwide, demonstrates conclusively that exposure to violent video games [...]

Children exposed to cocaine face serious consequences from the belly of the drug, but fortunately not in certain critical areas physical and cognitive, as previously thought, according to an exhaustive review of research on the subject of scientific University of Maryland School of Medicine. When a pregnant woman uses cocaine, you can interrupt the flow [...]

A voluntary effort by the service of the U.S. food industry to reduce salt in processed food could have serious consequences for the health of the U.S. population, prevention of strokes and heart attacks in nearly a million Americans and saving 32.1 billion U.S. dollars in medical costs, according to a new study by researchers [...]

Although most children who were affected by the toxin melamine contaminated products in China recovered renal anomalies remained in 12% of children affected, according to an article in the CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) .
In 2008, dairy-melamine-contaminated dairy company Sanlu was a major outbreak of severe kidney damage in Chinese children. Melamine, commonly used in [...]

Mosquitoes - not as suspected bird - could have played a major role in spreading West Nile virus westward across the United States, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study is among the first to examine the role of mosquitoes in the spread of West [...]

Math-based computer models are a powerful tool to discover the details of complex living systems. John Tyson, a professor of biology at Virginia Tech, is the creation of such models to discover how cells process information and make decisions.
“Cells receive information in the form of chemical signals, physical attachment to other cells, or radiation damage, [...]

If the behavior of how seasonal flu virus H1N1 is any indication, the scientists say chances are good that most strains of H1N1 influenza pandemic will be resistant to Tamiflu, the main drug storage to be used against them.
Researchers at Ohio State University have traced the evolutionary history of seasonal influenza virus H1N1, which first [...]

Researchers have developed a urine test that can simultaneously measure the extent of a potential carcinogenic process and an indicator of consumption of garlic in humans.
In a small pilot study, evidence suggests that people eat more garlic, the lower the levels of potential carcinogenic process.
Research is on the body of all the processes associated with [...]

Efforts to prevent childhood obesity must begin much earlier than currently thought - perhaps even before birth - especially for minority children, according to a new study that tracked 1826 women from pregnancy through their children the first five years of life.
Most prevention programs for obesity - including national initiative launched recently by First Lady [...]

Los esfuerzos para prevenir la obesidad infantil debe empezar mucho antes de lo pensado hasta el momento - tal vez incluso antes de nacer - especialmente para los niños de las minorías, según un nuevo estudio que dio seguimiento a 1.826 mujeres desde el embarazo a través de sus hijos los cinco primeros años de [...]

Research in recent years about Down syndrome has focused on the gene for DYRK1A. The superexpression of this gene affects the transmission in neurons, according to Garikoitz Azkona at the Center for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona.
In his doctoral thesis, The molecular basis of neuropathology in Down syndrome: the role of DYRK1A, Azkona argues that failure [...]

Researchers at the Vanderbilt Eye Institute are now one step closer to deciphering the leading cause of blindness in the United States - glaucoma.
In a recent study, David Calkins, Ph.D., research director of the VEI, found the first sign of glaucoma damage actually occurs in the brain.
Glaucoma is usually considered a disease of the eye [...]

A rare, old polar bear fossil discovered in Norway in 2004 is to obtain a wealth of essential information about the age and evolutionary origin of the species whose future is now seen as synonymous with the devastation caused by climate change.
An article in the current edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of [...]

Atrazine, one of the most widely used pesticides in the world, wreaking havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, three quarters maul them and becoming one of 10 women, according to a new study from the University of California, Berkeley biologists.
The 75 percent that are chemically castrated are essentially “dead” due to their [...]

An asteroid could not only explain the disappearance of the oceans and land life 65 million years, but towards the fireball and the resulting dust, darkness and toxic metal contamination can explain the geographic differences of extinction and recovery, according to Penn State geoscientist.
“Our results shed light on the causes of extinction nanoplankton, how was [...]

The telecommunications provider NTT America (www.nttamerica.com) said Monday it has launched new virtualization capabilities and expanded through its data centers and dedicated hosting platforms.
The services combine virtualization hosting infrastructure NTT America is safer with the VMware virtualization platform to provide a basis “very efficient and flexible IT infrastructures for hosted,” says the company.
Virtualization Services NTT [...]

The telecommunications provider Terremark Worldwide (www.terremark.com) announced Monday it has chosen Melissa Hathaway to its board.
Hathaway has over 20 years of high level public and private sector experience and is considered one of the leading experts in cybersecurity.
Hathaway is president of Global Strategies Hathaway, and a senior adviser at Harvard’s Kennedy School Belfer Center.
She has [...]

In an effort to help law enforcement to investigate child pornography and other serious crimes, FBI Director Robert Mueller is asking Internet service providers to retain records of browsing history of customers and retain those records for two years.
An attorney’s office said Mueller reaffirmed its support for the original recording of Internet users “and destination [...]

® Mimecast, a holistic email management company offering SaaS-based email archiving, continuity, security and policy control, today announced the results of its Survey of Adoption of Cloud Computing, which examined the perception and adoption of cloud computing solutions among the 565 respondents responsible for managing their IT operations organization and budget through the U.S. and [...]

GlobalSign Inc., one of the longest established authorities Certification (CA) and specialists in digital identities to obtain PDF documents, today announced the success of GlobalSign digital signature solution, the pharmaceutical industry DocumentSign. Euthymics, a new biotech company has implemented a joint GlobalSign and SafeNet’s solution is not only designed to meet the needs of the [...]

The planet today formally announced plans to spend over $ 7 million to upgrade the network infrastructure in Houston and Dallas, operating their cities. The company plans capital investments in improvements of network capacity, expanding infrastructure for its solutions and Virtual Private Rack, new routers and switches, and platforms of evidence to evaluate solutions. To [...]

Abstract
Recently, the use of gold nanoparticles as potential selective tumor radiosensitizer has been
proposed as a major advance in radiotherapy. Experiments in living cells and in vivo have
demonstrated the effectiveness of metal nanoparticles when combined with low energy X-ray
radiation (below 1 MeV Linac conventional radiation). Other DNA studies have
performed in order to better understand the fundamental [...]

Using the new material graphene super, Sweden and American researchers have managed to produce a new type of lighting components. It is cheap to produce and can be completely recycled.
The invention, which paves the way for the shiny wallpaper made entirely of plastic, for example, is published in the journal ACS Nano by scientists at [...]