Even With More Free Time, Women Feel No Less Rushed, Study Finds
Jan 25, 2006 |
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While more free time sounds like a good thing for everyone, new research suggests it is a better deal for men than it is for women.
Briefs: Opera unveils versatile cell-phone browser
Jan 25, 2006 |
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An Internet browser usable on a wide range of mobile phones has been developed by Norway's Opera Software.
XMM-Newton scores 1000 top-class science results
Jan 25, 2006 |
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XMM-Newton, ESA's X-ray observatory, continues its quest for the unknown. This month, after five years of operations, the mission saw the publication of its 1000th scientific paper, corresponding to an equivalent ...
Pesticides place amphibians in danger
Jan 25, 2006 |
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University of California scientists say amphibians around the world are in danger from even extremely low concentrations of widely used pesticides.
Report: China's AIDS epidemic is worsening
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International health experts say China's AIDS epidemic is among the fastest-growing in the world and will likely increase.
Swans help explain evolutionary question
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University of Oxford scientists say they have answered a longstanding evolutionary question involving mute swans.
Pittsburgh U. gets fossil-rich land
Jan 25, 2006 |
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A Wyoming cattle rancher has donated about 4,700 acres of his dinosaur-bone rich Wyoming ranch to the University of Pittsburgh.
NASA loans engine to private industry firm
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NASA officials in Washington say they are loaning a rocket engine to Rocketplane Limited Inc. of Oklahoma City as part of an industry partnership program.
UW scientists unravel mystery of how flu viruses replicate
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Like any other organism, an influenza virus's success in life is measured by its genetic track record, its ability to pass on genes from one generation to the next. But although much is known about the genes and inner workings ...
Evolution delays Fla. science curriculum
Jan 25, 2006 |
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Florida's public school science curriculum won't be updated until 2008, reportedly to avoid an evolution fight until Gov. Jeb Bush leaves office.
EPA announces latest Green Power list
Jan 25, 2006 |
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its latest "Green Power" list Wednesday, led by the U.S. Air Force and the Whole Foods Market chain.
Egypt may have eradicated the polio virus
Jan 25, 2006 |
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Scientists believe the world's first cases of polio occurred about 5,000 years ago in Egypt, but now that nation has apparently eradicated the virus.
The grass is greener after a cold winter
Jan 25, 2006 |
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We may well be shivering through an unusually chilly winter, but the dip in temperature is not all bad news, at least for your lawn. Researchers at Harper Adams University College, Shropshire, believe a cold winter leads ...
3,400-year-old Egyptian statue is found
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Johns Hopkins archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a life-sized, 3,400-year-old statue of one of the queens of the powerful king Amenhotep III.
Rights experts question Google censorship
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Google's decision to do business in China by adhering to the government's strict censorship rules has come under attack by many bloggers, academics and activists alike. What's more, some question whether the ...
