Thursday, June 9, 2011

How it works

How it works


Researchers learning how nicotine works as an appetite suppressant

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 08:37 AM PDT

Smoking has been associated with weight loss for centuries. In the modern world, advertisements and other aspects of popular culture often link slimness with cigarettes. Scientific research generally supports this link as well; researchers have found that smokers have a lower body mass index than nonsmokers, and they have discovered that nicotine decreases the amount of food animals will eat ...

How It Works And Why We Need A Real Research Hospital

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 07:15 AM PDT

The expanded UConn Health Center can't come soon enough. From The Day : Pfizer Inc., in the midst of a research-and-development makeover that will lead to 1,100 job losses in southeastern Connecticut, said Wednesday it is increasing its commitment to the Boston area in an attempt to speed up the delivery of critical new medicines. Pfizer announced it will invest $100 million over five years to ...

How iTunes Works in the Cloud—Beta Version

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 12:53 PM PDT

This week, Apple announced the beta version of its new wireless, cloud-based service, iCloud . I wrote a summary of it here . The iCloud service includes some new features in the latest version of the iTunes Store, which allows you to access all your iTunes songs, mobile apps, and eBooks purchased in their respective iTunes stores and download that media to up to 10 of your devices—your iTunes ...

Dog rescued; how he got in storm drain a mystery

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 09:54 PM PDT

Public Works officials don't know exactly how a 13-year-old dog got lost in the storm drain system underneath Main Street near Pioneer Avenue. Firefighters pulled Sketcher, a 60-pound Australian cattle dog, out alive and uninjured from a storm drain the afternoon of June 1.

How cells' sensing hairs are made

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 02:27 PM PDT

New research provides insights into how sensory hairs, or cilia, on the surface of cells are assembled.

New sensor network protecting art in NY museum

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 08:54 AM PDT

It will take a good eye to spot them, but dozens of tiny, very modern works of art have been installed near the 15th-century unicorn tapestries and other medieval masterpieces at a New York City museum.

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