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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
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, ... | |
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. | |
 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. ... | |
 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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
 Scientists Develop New Method to Investigate Origin of Life September 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Penn State have developed a new computational method that they say will help them to understand how life began on Earth. The team's method has the potential to trace the evolutionary ... | |
 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. | |
 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. | |
 Fermilab physicists discover 'doubly strange' particle September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 57 vote(s)
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Physicists of the DZero experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a new particle made of three quarks, the Omega-sub-b (Ωb). The particle contains ... | |
Court: US can block mad cow testing August 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The Bush administration can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for mad cow disease, a federal appeals court said Friday. | |
 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, ... | |
Scientists examine bird flu infections to monitor for 'pandemic' mutations August 30, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Scientists funded by the Wellcome Trust are to examine what is preventing the H5N1 avian influenza virus from causing a human pandemic and what mutations are required to realise its deadly potential. The research could hold ... | |
87 salmonella cases reported across Quebec August 30, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- A provincial health official says that an unusually high number of people have fallen ill with salmonella food poisoning across Quebec. | |
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