It may not be the most eaten fruit, that may be Gogurt or whatever people think is fruit today, but at least the tomato is the most Googled fruit in English-speaking countries, according to a review by World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) to coincide with Fruity Friday, which everyone who is anyone knows is tomorrow, May 13th. 

 The review, using data from Google's Insights for Search, suggests there are almost twice as many searches for "tomatoes" as there are for "apples", the second most Googled fruit.   The data on Google searches is from Googles Insights for Search, accessed on May 3, 2011. The plural of each fruit was used and they note the results are not intended to suggest overall consumption levels or popularity.

It's common practice among learned people that, the more educated the company, the more obscure the lists of people they will invent any time there is a question about history.   Science may be universally quantifiable but history of science is quite subjective.   So on a site where we all extol Al-Khwarizmi,  Pietro Monti, Zu Chongzhi,  Ibn al-Haytham and too many others to count in our quest to be thorough, I am going to make a bold claim sure to infuriate historians and nationalists from many countries, including America; some of the greatest scientists of any age were all in one place, at one time, and that place was Britain.

Digital communications is no longer a free-for-all, it can take you right to courts of law if you use it and people don't like what it tells them about you.   A US court just slashed alimony payments (Cardone v. Cardone, 2011 WL 1566992, Conn.Super. April 4, 2011) to an ex-wife because of her blog posts, which detailed how she was sailing around the Caribbean for months with her new boyfriend while she rented out her apartment.    The poor sap ex-husband had been paying for 10 years and the court reduced it by 70% because she was clearly living with someone else and being subsidized by her ex-husband.

SUNNYVALE, California, May 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Accuray Incorporated , a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, announced today that 85 percent of European CyberKnife(R) centers are performing prostate SBRT to treat localized prostate cancer. There is an increasing trend towards treating prostate cancer patients with a hypofractionated regimen.

"More than 25 percent of our CyberKnife patients are being treated for prostate cancer with further growth anticipated," said Dr David Feltl, Head of the Oncology department, Ostrava University Hospital, Ostrava, Czech Republic.

The Porton Group, the private equity partner of the British Ministry of Defence, has accused 3M Corporation of "negligence and possible recklessness putting lives at risk" due to "botched" 2007 clinical trials of a medical device called "BacLite," which can detect within five hours the presence of the potentially deadly MRSA/staph "superbug." The trials were conducted after notification of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and after seeking FDA advice, which 3M proceeded to ignore, according to Porton. 

As a result, Baclite was withdrawn and the group that sold it to 3M are blaming 3M.

SAN DIEGO, May 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Amira Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that it will present preclinical data on AM152, an LPA1 receptor antagonist, during the Annual Meeting of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) in Denver, Colorado. The poster, titled "The LPA1 Antagonist, AM152, Is Efficacious in Mouse Models of Fibrosis," will be presented on Monday, May 16, from 8:15 to 10:45 a.m. MDT.

Driver safety technology is a key factor in preventing accidents and creating a crash-free future for drivers, says Andy Yeoman, managing director of Trimble Mobile Resource Management (MRM) in Europe, a provider of telematics technology. 

 Studies have shown the majority of road traffic accidents are a result of driver behavior or distractions but a recent study from UK road safety charity Brake suggests that the majority of drivers believe they are safer than, or as safe as, the average driver and are quick to place blame on third parties instead.

 
Approximately 55  million people in Europe are living with diabetes and many require insulin to manage their condition. For people who use insulin, managing diabetes can often involve challenging calculations to determine an appropriate mealtime insulin dose. Individuals soemtimes have trouble with the calculations required for insulin dose adjustment, resulting in insulin dose calculation errors.

In 2009, Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman published a series of articles here at Science 2.0 with ways to improve science education (see Why Not Try A Scientific Approach To Science Education?) and one of the ideas he advocated was using clickers and consensus groups along with generally remaking the traditional lecture method.

A few years ago, when 2% of astronomers decided Pluto should no longer a planet, the confusion was so great and the definition so arbitrary and so we now have five 'dwarf' planets in our solar system - Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Haumea and Makemake.