All news dated 06/12/2008

Medicine & Health

'Faulty' brain connections may be responsible for social impairments in autism

Cell surface receptors are all 'talk' in T cell stimulation

Head injuries increase after motorcycle helmet law repeal

Study pinpoints strategies that protect older adult's physical health

Driving while phoning danger as bad as drink-driving

Study Finds Benefits to Earlier Colon Cancer Screenings

Tsunami in the brain

'Chatter Box' computer will unravel the science of language

Even before tomato warning, many Americans lacked confidence in the food safety system

Researchers Find Source of Drug-Tolerant Tuberculosis

Primary tumors can drive the growth of distant cancers

Researchers discover significant efficacy of travelers' diarrhea vaccine

REM sleep associated with overweight in children and adolescents

New target to enhance anti-cancer drug sensitivity found in translation

Frequent self-cutting linked to risky sexual behavior in teens

UT Southwestern investigators test groundbreaking depression research in real-world setting

Fever may trigger heart failure in patients with the genetic disease LQT-2

Insomnia in parents can result in sleep problems, suicidal behavior among their offspring

General Science

Centromeres cross over, a lot

US still leads the world in science and technology

Breaking new boundaries

Study: Women make management strides when firms downsize, restructure

Beaded viruses and geology-inspired paintings show the art in science

Technology

NXP Launches The World’s Fastest Cellular Modem

Vision sensors keep their eye on the ball at Euro 2008

Samsung Introduces 90-Nanometer High Performance Smart Card IC

Tests check out rescue robots' life-saving vision

Electronic Devices

Roadrunner supercomputer puts research at a new scale

Space & Earth science

Doritos makes history with world's first extraterrestrial advert

If a Tree Falls in the Forest, and No One Is Around to Hear It, Does Climate Change?

Phoenix Mars Lander Delivers Soil Sample to Microscope

Scientist highlights urgent need for new computer models to address climate change

Freshwater runoff from the Greenland Ice Sheet will more than double by the end of the century

Sun to set on Ulysses solar mission on July 1

Field project seeks clues to climate change in remote atmospheric region

Golfers and golf courses benefit from the use of native grasses in roughs

Medical research on ice