Soft economy speeds newspaper decline, job cuts August 30, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- The newspaper industry's downward spiral is accelerating as the weak U.S. economy depresses already-tumbling advertising revenue and forces more rounds of job cuts and other trims. | |
Gait may be associated with orgasmic ability September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 77 vote(s)
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A new study found that trained sexologists could infer a woman's history of vaginal orgasm by observing the way she walks. The study is published in the September 2008 issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, the official ... | |
Zen training speeds the mind's return after distraction, brain scans reveal September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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Experienced Zen meditators can clear their minds of distractions more quickly than novices, according to a new brain imaging study. | |
 Stanford's 'autonomous' helicopters teach themselves to fly September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 47 vote(s)
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Stanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching other helicopters perform the same maneuvers. ... | |
 Physicist's gadget lets you hear the sound of a perfect golf swing September 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Golf is a game of intense concentration. Golfers receive advice on the precise stance, grip, wrist angle, shoulder angle, head angle, and other details to improve their swings. But a new golf gadget developed ... | |
 Physicists Rule Out the Production of Dangerous Black Holes at the LHC September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 75 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On August 8, the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, began the process of slowly throttling to full power. When its proton beams are circling ... | |
 Closest Look Ever at the Edge of a Black Hole September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 100 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have taken the closest look ever at the giant black hole in the center of the Milky Way. By combining telescopes in Hawaii, Arizona, and California, they detected structure at ... | |
 Paraben's CSI Stick Copies Data from Cell Phones September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Beware the next time someone borrows your cell phone or you leave it unattended. You may become the next victim of having all your cell phone data copied to the CSI Stick. | |
New master switch found in the brain that regulates appetite and reproduction August 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Body weight and fertility have long known to be related to each other – women who are too thin, for example, can have trouble becoming pregnant. Now, a master switch has been found in the brain of mice that controls both, ... | |
 Electrons discover their individuality September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 58 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Electrons have something in common with people: the more information they acquire about their setting, the more they become aware of their individuality and the more belonging to a group loses ... | |
Physicists investigate how time moves forward 7 hours ago | User rating: 4 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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As humans, we have a very intuitive concept of time, and of the differences between the past, present, and future. But, as scientists Edward Feng of the University of California, Berkeley, and Gavin Crooks of the Lawrence ... | |
 Do 68 molecules hold the key to understanding disease? September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 37 vote(s)
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Why is it that the origins of many serious diseases remain a mystery? In considering that question, a scientist at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has come up with a unified molecular ... | |
World-first trial proves exercise helps memory September 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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West Australian health experts are urging older people to get active after proving for the first time that just 20 minutes of activity each day can prevent memory deterioration. | |
 Playing, and even watching, sports improves brain function September 01, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Being an athlete or merely a fan improves language skills when it comes to discussing their sport because parts of the brain usually involved in playing sports are instead used to understand sport language, ... | |
 Next stop: The fourth dimension September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 60 vote(s)
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How did the universe come to be? What is it made of? What is mass? Can science prove that there are other dimensions? We may have answers soon. | |
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