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Study: Premature Babies Can Feel Pain

April 4th, 2006 at 11:52 pm » Comments (0)

Premature babies can actually feel pain and are not just displaying a reflex reaction to a stimulus, a team of doctors and scientists said on Tuesday.



Study: Cancer Cure Worth $50 Trillion

April 4th, 2006 at 11:47 pm » Comments (0)

University of Chicago economists say finding a cure for cancer would be worth about $50 trillion in social value.



Top 10 Strangest Keyboards

April 4th, 2006 at 11:34 pm » Comments (0)

Keyboards come in many shapes - from the simplest computer grey $10 standard 102-key keyboard to variants that seem to come straight out of a Star Trek episode. Here’s our Top 10 list of the strangest keyboards ever.



The Faces of Insects and a Frog

April 4th, 2006 at 11:28 pm » Comments (0)

Beauty comes in many forms.  Here are some amazing photos of insect faces and a couple frogs.



Slow Starters Have Higher IQ

April 4th, 2006 at 10:45 pm » Comments (0)

Youth with superior IQ are distinguished by how fast the thinking part of their brains thickens and thins as they grow up, researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have discovered.



Smart Glasses: Dynamically Changing Lenses to Replace Bifocals

April 4th, 2006 at 9:10 pm » Comments (0)

Here’s a pair of glasses from PixelOptics that replace bifocals, changing from distant vision to close-up with the flick of a switch.  Cool photo.



The US is on the Wrong Side of the Technology Gap

April 4th, 2006 at 2:41 pm » Comments (0)

 By several measures, the US appears to be less "connected" than many other countries. Great stats.



Doctors Grow Organ from Patient’s Own Cells

April 4th, 2006 at 7:58 am » Comments (0)

For the first time in medical history, scientists have grown a human organ from a patient’s own cells to transplant back into their bodies.



Basement Concert Yields Huge Record Deal

April 4th, 2006 at 7:38 am » Comments (0)

An unknown singer has signed a huge record deal after staging webcam gigs from her basement.