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A well-known effect in breakfast cereal helps physicists understand the universe

Friday, September 10th, 2010

Have you ever noticed how the last bits of cereal in the bowl always seem to cling to one another, making it easy to spoon up the remaining stragglers? Physicists have — and they’ve given it a name: the “Cheerios effect”.

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A well-known effect in breakfast cereal helps physicists understand the universe

Best Buy to offer Amazon’s Kindle e-reader

Friday, September 10th, 2010

Best Buy said Thursday that it will begin selling Amazon’s Kindle electronic reader this year, making the US consumer electronics giant the third brick-and-mortar US store to offer the device.

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US says electronic cigarettes must get government approval

Friday, September 10th, 2010

So-called electronic cigarettes cannot be sold in the United States without getting regulatory approval, the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday.

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Hurd’s Oracle gig: Is Ellison perk or problem?

Friday, September 10th, 2010

(AP) — As co-president at Oracle Corp., ousted Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd will have to adapt to a new role playing second fiddle to one of Silicon Valley’s most domineering bosses – Larry Ellison.

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Wall Street’s super traders come under fire

Friday, September 10th, 2010

A handful of traders who master stock markets using ultra-fast computers may soon face a clampdown by US watchdogs as they try to prevent freak electronic glitches.

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White House names overseer of federal effort against invasive Asian carp

Friday, September 10th, 2010

The White House has tapped a former leader of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and the Indiana Wildlife Federation as the Asian carp czar to oversee the federal response to keeping the invasive species out of the Great Lakes.

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How mycobacteria avoid destruction inside human cells

Friday, September 10th, 2010

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a dreaded contagious disease of the lungs and other organs.

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How mycobacteria avoid destruction inside human cells

Strategy discovered to prevent Alzheimer’s-associated traffic jams in the brain

Friday, September 10th, 2010

Amyloid beta (Αβ) proteins, widely thought to cause Alzheimer’s disease (AD), block the transport of vital cargoes inside brain cells.

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Strategy discovered to prevent Alzheimer’s-associated traffic jams in the brain

Mexican-Americans with heart rhythm disorder have increased risk for second stroke

Friday, September 10th, 2010

Mexican-American stroke survivors with a heart rhythm disorder have more than twice the risk for another stroke compared to non-Hispanic whites, according to a study published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.

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