Archive: 08/25/2006
Study: Snuff users tend to obesity
A Swedish study finds that people who use snuff are more likely to be overweight and to have high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
Aug 25, 2006 |
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Milwaukee tops U.S. cities for drinking
Milwaukee, sometimes called "The Nation's Watering Hole," has been named the hardest-drinking city in America in a new Forbes.com ranking.
Aug 25, 2006 |
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Laser surgery saves twins' lives
A new laser surgery is being used to save the lives of identical twins suffering from twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, or TTTS.
Aug 25, 2006 |
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Development threatens Galapagos Islands
Officials in Ecuador are worried about the recent discovery of a foreign iguana and turtle on the Galapagos Islands.
Aug 25, 2006 |
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Study reveals causes for freshwater increase in oceans
A new analysis of 50 years of changes in freshwater inputs to the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans may shed light on what’s behind the recently observed increase in freshwater in the North Atlantic. University ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2006 |
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ORNL Jaguar supercomputer surpasses 50 teraflops
An upgrade to the Cray XT3 supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the most powerful supercomputer available for general scientific research in the United States, has increased the system's computing ...
Aug 25, 2006 |
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Samsung Unveils Dual T-DMB Mobile Phone at IFA
Good news for mobile TV users! Up to now, the Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) standard was restricted to just four TV channels in Germany. Soon, however, avid viewers could in theory be spoiled for choice with as many ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 25, 2006 |
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Suspicion Confirmed: Flat Molecules Better for Conducting Electricity
Columbia research scientist Latha Venkataraman has demonstrated that in creating single-molecule electronic devices, flatter molecules conduct electricity better. That principle has long been suspected, but ...
Aug 25, 2006 |
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Martian Misinformation
On Sunday, August 27th, Mars will be far from Earth, dim and unremarkable. In short, a total bore. That's news? It is when a widely-read email claims just the opposite.
Aug 25, 2006 |
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Stem Cell Researcher Says It's Too Soon to Cheer About Recent Stem Cell Findings
Recently, scientists announced that they had found a way to establish colonies of human embryonic stem cells without destroying a human embryo. University of Missouri-Columbia researcher Elmer Price, who works with adult stem c ...
Aug 25, 2006 |
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How modern were European Neandertals?
Neandertals were much more like modern humans than had been previously thought, according to a re-examination of finds from one of the most famous palaeolithic sites in Europe by Bristol University archaeologist, ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 25, 2006 |
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Australia To Build 232 Megawatt Wind Farm
The Planning Minister, Rob Hulls, today gave the green light to building Australia's most powerful wind farm at Mt Gellibrand, near Colac, with the capacity to power 133,450 homes a year.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Aug 25, 2006 |
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Berries beneficial for brains
If humans are anything like rats, scientists at Tufts University in Boston may be on the road to discovering the fountain of youth for the human brain.
Aug 25, 2006 |
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Mountain climate change trends could predict water resources
New research into climate change in the Western Himalaya and the surrounding Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains could explain why many glaciers there are growing and not melting.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2006 |
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Suspicion lingers over bisphenol A and breast cancer
Bisphenol A, a common industrial chemical claimed to speed the growth of human breast and ovarian cancers, retains its carcinogenic properties even after being modified by body processes, report Indiana University and University ...
Aug 25, 2006 |
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