Researcher finds that women are speaking up August 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- There's a whole industry of books and seminars that hinge on the premise that women somehow need to be "fixed" when it comes to communication and must change the way they talk and behave to advance their ... | |
No evidence to support 'organic is best' 9 hours ago | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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New research in the latest issue of the Society of Chemical Industry's (SCI) Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture shows there is no evidence to support the argument that organic food is better than food grown ... | |
 Australia bans exotic cat breed August 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Australia has banned imports of an exotic breed of cat, calling it an extreme risk to the country's native wildlife, a minister said Sunday. | |
Oral pill turns slacker mice into marathonists: study August 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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US researchers have come up with a pill that promises to give a typical junk-food snacking couch potato the silhouette of an athlete and the endurance of a marathon runner. | |
 Booger is back: Woman receives 5 cloned puppies August 05, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Booger is back. An American woman received five puppies Tuesday that were cloned from her beloved late pitbull, becoming the inaugural customer of a South Korean company that says it is the world's ... | |
Americans try to see the bright side of high gas prices August 04, 2008 | User rating: 2.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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It's hard, anywhere in the world, to be positive about sky-high gasoline prices. But in the United States, some experts and ordinary citizens are focusing on the benefits of high energy costs to forget about the money pinch ... | |
Great white's mighty bite revealed August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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The bite force of a great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is the highest known for any living species, according to new research to be published in the Journal of Zoology. This is the first time that scientists ... | |
Exercise pill is no replacement for exercise August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Recently, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, a research organization focused on biology and its relation to health, published a study in the journal ... | |
Electronic tongue tastes wine variety, vintage August 04, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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You don't need a wine expert to identify a '74 Pinot Noir from Burgundy – a handheld "electronic tongue" devised by European scientists will tell you the grape variety and vintage at the press of a button. | |
 World's smallest snake found in Barbados August 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's smallest species of snake, with adults averaging just under four inches in length, has been identified on the Caribbean island of Barbados. The species -- which is as thin as ... | |
Bulging prison system called massive intervention in American family life August 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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The mammoth increase in the United States' prison population since the 1970s is having profound demographic consequences that disproportionately affect black males. | |
Survival of the fittest: even cancer cells follow the laws of evolution August 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Scientists from The Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton and the University of California discovered that the underlying process in tumor formation is the same as for life itself—evolution. After analyzing a half million ... | |
 For the birds or for me? Why do conservationists really help wildlife? 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Volunteers who take part in conservation efforts may do it more for themselves than the wildlife they are trying to protect, a University of Alberta case study shows. | |
 South American stork spotted in Louisiana 15 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- A stork that's abundant in South America but rare farther north was spotted in Louisiana, one of fewer than a dozen sightings of the bird in the U.S. | |
 Possible Shakespearean theater found in London August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The theater where "The Merchant of Venice" and "Romeo and Juliet" likely debuted and where William Shakespeare himself may have trodden the boards has likely been discovered in east London, archaeologists ... | |
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