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Smokers and smart phones: real-time data and new treatment options
Researchers at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center are using real-time smart phone data from struggling-to-quit smokers to better understand the quitting process -- and develop improved and individualized treatment options.
Intelligent Energy
The future of storing CO2 and methane: ‘dry water?’
British chemists explore ways "dry water" could join the battle against global warming. The fine, white powder absorbs greenhouse gases, takes methane on the road, and might one day sit in your make-up bag.
Thinking Tech
Super-sensitive robotic nose created with frog eggs
Bet you didn't know that the immature eggs of the African Clawed Frog were so useful.
Science Scope
Vitamin D deficiency linked to autoimmune diseases and cancer
Oxford researchers have shown how vitamin D interacts with our DNA and how a deficiency in it brings on a slew of serious diseases.
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Medicare will pay for all seniors to stop smoking
Now that Medicare is paying, will any of the e-cigarette makers take up my challenge of becoming regulated medical devices?
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