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People would be willing to pay more for products that carry detailed nutritional information than for the so-called light items. Thus it has been confirmed by researchers from the University of Santiago de ...

UWM study explores why women leave engineering careers

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While only one in 10 male engineers leave their field by the time they reach their 30s, about one in four women are not working in engineering despite having completed the necessary education.

New research may help to reduce global supply chain disruptions
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Weather-sensitive architectural skins integrate form with function
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The first casualty of war: Study finds news reports match misperception of civilian deaths
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Ancient muscle tissue extracted from 18 million year old fossil
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For improving early literacy, reading comics is no child's play
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New Digital 'Electronics' Concept May Continue Moore's Law, Nov 05, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (50) | 8
Tiny Music Player Made from Wire Bridge (w/ Video), Nov 04, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (13) | 1
Stars Fueled by Dark Matter Could Hold Secrets to the Universe, Nov 03, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (45) | 40
Creating a six-qubit cluster state, Nov 02, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (10) | 2
Second Law of Thermodynamics May Explain Economic Evolution, Nov 02, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (28) | 25

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Atlanta's Fernbank Museum tracks infamous conquistador through southeast

Team tracks infamous conquistador through southeast

Nov 05, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (3) | 0

Archaeologists at Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural History have discovered unprecedented evidence that helps map Hernando de Soto's journey through the Southeast in 1540. No evidence of De Soto's path ...

The last European hadrosaurs lived in the Iberian Peninsula

Nov 05, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

Spanish researchers have studied the fossil record of hadrosaurs, the so-called 'duck-billed' dinosaurs, in the Iberian Peninsula for the purpose of determining that they were the last of their kind to inhabit ...

Professor: Fear, Shame Keep Homeowners From Defaulting

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Nov 05, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Brent T. White, a University of Arizona associate professor of law, said policymakers must consider ways that emotions drive financial decisions.

Community education and evacuation planning saved lives in Sept. 29 Samoan tsunami

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Community-based education and awareness programs minimized the death toll from the recent Samoan tsunami, though there are still ways to improve the warning and evacuation process, according to a team of researchers ...

Farmers' markets harvest new business

Nov 05, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Something fresh is growing in Indiana. The number of farmers' markets in the state has increased at double the rate of other U.S. states; between 1994 and 2004 the number of farmers' markets in Indiana increased by an impressive ...

New study further disputes notion that amputee runners gain advantage from protheses

Nov 04, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 5

A study by six researchers, including a University of Colorado at Boulder associate professor and his former doctoral student, shows that amputees who use running-specific prosthetic legs have no performance ...

Archaeologists uncover prehistoric landscape beneath Oxford

Nov 04, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (8) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists excavating the former Radcliffe Infirmary site in Oxford have uncovered evidence of a prehistoric monumental landscape stretching across the gravel terrace between the Thames ...

T.rex's oldest ancestor identified

Nov 04, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Remains of the oldest-known relative of T.rex have been identified, more than 100 years after being pulled out of a Gloucestershire reservoir, according to research published in the Zoological Jo ...

Study: Internet use leads to more diverse networks

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(AP) -- A new study confirms what your 130 Facebook friends and scores of Twitter followers may have already told you: The Internet and mobile phones are not linked to social isolation.

Discovery of the oldest European marsupial

Nov 04, 2009 | 4 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Remains of one of the oldest known marsupials have been recovered in Charente-Maritime by a palaeontologist team from the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (CNRS, France) and the ...

Portable 3-D laser technology preserves Texas dinosaur's rare footprint

Nov 04, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Using portable 3D laser technology, scientists have electronically preserved a rare 110 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur footprint that was previously excavated and built into the wall of a bandstand at a Texas courthouse ...

Chart junk? How pictures may help make graphs better

Nov 04, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

Those oft-maligned, and highly embellished, graphs and charts in USA Today and other media outlets may actually help people understand data more effectively than traditional graphs, according to new research from North Carolina ...

The x-ray machine has revolutionised how doctors detect disease and injury

X-ray named top achievement by British museum

Nov 04, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

The X-ray was named the most important modern scientific achievement Wednesday in a poll conducted for Britain's Science Museum, beating Apollo spacecraft and DNA.

Economists find new reason to think that environment, not innate ability, determines how well girls do in math class

Nov 04, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When Glenn Ellison’s daughters started middle school in a Boston suburb in 2007, Ellison decided to become a volunteer coach of the school’s math team. While his squad was earning a place ...

Recession May Have Longer-Term Effects on Low-Income Families, Researcher Says