Fraud plagues prepaid calling card market October 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Rosalba Posada can tick off a list of problems she has encountered trying to use prepaid calling cards to stay in touch with family back in Colombia. | |
Direct recording shows brain signal persists even in dreamless sleep September 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have taken one of the first direct looks at one of the human brain's most fundamental "foundations": a brain signal that never switches off and may ... | |
 First atomic–scale compositional images of fuel-cell nanoparticles October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a step toward developing better fuel cells for electric cars and more, engineers at MIT and two other institutions have taken the first images of individual atoms on and near the surface ... | |
 Group seeks protection for ugly New England fish October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(AP) -- A ferocious-looking denizen of the deep that can gobble up whole urchins and crabs in a few swift chomps needs protection, according to a petition filed with the federal government. | |
Duke researchers show reading can help obese kids lose weight October 04, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | User comments: 1
It's no secret that reading is beneficial. But can it help kids lose weight? In the first study to look at the impact of literature on obese adolescents, researchers at Duke Children's Hospital discovered that reading the ... | |
RIM CEO: AT&T still testing delayed BlackBerry October 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- A delayed top-of-the-line BlackBerry phone from Research in Motion Ltd. is still undergoing testing by AT&T Inc., and RIM's co-CEO implied that the carrier wants to avoid the chorus of complaints about performance ... | |
 Water table depth tied to droughts in Great Plains October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Will there be another “dust bowl” in the Great Plains similar to the one that swept the region in the 1930s? It depends on water storage underground. Groundwater depth has a significant effect ... | |
A little exercise goes a long way for severely obese October 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A little exercise goes a long way toward helping severely obese individuals improve their quality of life and complete important daily tasks, according to researchers at the Duke Diet and Fitness Center. | |
 'Little bang' triggered solar system formation October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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For several decades, scientists have thought that the Solar System formed as a result of a shock wave from an exploding star—a supernova—that triggered the collapse of a dense, dusty gas cloud that contracted ... | |
CERN openlab boosts the performance of LHC computing October 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 3
The LHC Grid Fest, held last Friday at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and at several sites around the world, commemorated the readiness of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). At full capacity, the Large Hadron Collider ... | |
Study shows hotels' Internet connections unsafe October 01, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Travelers who use a hotel's Internet network risk the possibility of data theft, concludes a new study from Cornell's School of Hotel Administration. | |
 HP HDX 18t Notebook Is Now Available October 02, 2008 | User rating: 2.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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HP has just recently announced their HDX 18t Premium Series laptop. HP's HDX 18t is powered by Intel´s latest Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Quad processor. The HDX 18t is equipped with up to 8GB of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce ... | |
Religion makes people helpful and generous -- under certain conditions: UBC researchers October 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Belief in God encourages people to be helpful, honest and generous, but only under certain psychological conditions, according to University of British Columbia researchers who analyzed the past three decades of social science ... | |
Use it or lose it? Researchers investigate the dispensability of our DNA October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Our genome contains many genes encoding proteins that are similar to those of other organisms, suggesting evolutionary relationships; however, protein-coding genes account for only a small fraction the genome, and there are ... | |
 Playing Pinball with Atoms October 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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With nanotechnology yielding a burgeoning menagerie of microscopic pumps, motors, and other machines for potential use in medicine and industry, here is one good question: How will humans turn those devices ... | |
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