New guide explores making the most of Social Security September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Many older Americans may be shortchanging their golden years by tapping into Social Security too soon, according to a University of Illinois expert who has studied the federal retirement program for nearly two decades. | |
Microsoft releases beta version of Internet Explorer 8 September 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Microsoft last week released a broadly available test version of its latest Web browser, Internet Explorer 8, including a tool to cover one's tracks across the Web. | |
Bad sign for global warming: Thawing permafrost holds vast carbon pool September 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Permafrost blanketing the northern hemisphere contains more than twice the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, making it a potentially mammoth contributor to global climate change depending on how quickly it thaws. | |
Study: Teen suicide spike was no fluke September 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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A troubling study in the September 3rd Journal of the American Medical Association raises new concerns about kids committing suicide in this country. After a one year spike in the number of suicides, doctors were hoping ... | |
 The thousand-ruby galaxy September 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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ESO's Wide Field Imager has captured the intricate swirls of the spiral galaxy Messier 83, a smaller look-alike of our own Milky Way. Shining with the light of billions of stars and the ruby red glow of hydrogen ... | |
Doctors say Vytorin-cancer link can't be ruled out September 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- Results from three studies of the cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin are not enough to prove or rule out a possible link to a higher risk of cancer, so the drug should be used with great caution until more is known, ... | |
 Switchable bio-adhesion September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a new type of property-changing polymer: It is water-repellent at 37°C, which makes it an ideal culture substrate for biological cells. At room temperature it attracts ... | |
 Finder of key hominid fossil disputes 7-million-year dating September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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A fresh storm has broken out over an ancient fossil presented by its defenders as a forebear of humanity and dismissed by its critics as the remains of a vulgar chimp. Controversy has swirled around Toumai, ... | |
Ice Age lesson predicts a faster rise in sea level August 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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If the lessons being learned by scientists about the demise of the last great North American ice sheet are correct, estimates of global sea level rise from a melting Greenland ice sheet may be seriously underestimated. | |
 Methane gas oozing up from Siberian seabed: Swedish researcher August 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is leaking from the permafrost under the Siberian seabed, a researcher on an international expedition in the region told Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter on Saturday. | |
 Pyrenees glaciers will melt by 2050: Spanish study 7 hours ago | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Climate change will melt the 21 remaining glaciers in the Pyrenees mountains before 2050, a group of Spanish researchers said Friday. | |
 New technique makes corn ethanol process more efficient September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are proposing to borrow a process used in breweries and wastewater treatment facilities to make corn ethanol more energy efficient. They are ... | |
 Future of biology rests in harnessing data avalanche September 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(PhysOrg.com) -- Like most sciences, biology is inundated with data. However, a group of researchers warns in a Nature feature that the avalanche of biological information is at the point where the ... | |
 Theory of the sun's role in formation of the solar system questioned September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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A strange mix of oxygen found in a stony meteorite that exploded over Pueblito de Allende, Mexico nearly 40 years ago has puzzled scientists ever since. Small flecks of minerals lodged in the stone and thought ... | |
Caught in a trap: bumblebees vs. robotic crab spiders September 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
Bumblebees learn to avoid camouflaged predators by sacrificing foraging speed for predator detection, according to scientists from Queen Mary, University of London. | |
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