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Experts call for local and regional control of sites for radioactive waste

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5 hours ago | not rated yet | 1

The withdrawal of Nevada's Yucca Mountain as a potential nuclear waste repository has reopened the debate over how and where to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level nuclear waste.

Scientific achievements less prominent than a decade ago

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7 hours ago | not rated yet | 1

A new report by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press finds that overwhelming majorities of Americans believe that science has had a positive effect on society and that science has made life easier for most people. ...

Paleontologists brought to tears, laughter by Creation Museum

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Jun 30, 2009 | 4 / 5 (51) | 209

For a group of paleontologists, a tour of the Creation Museum seemed like a great tongue-in-cheek way to cap off a serious conference.

New data show jump in science and engineering graduate study

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Jun 24, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

New data show that enrollment in U.S. science and engineering (S&E) graduate programs in 2007 grew 3.3 percent over comparable data for 2006--the highest year-over-year increase since 2002 and nearly double the 1.7 percent ...

Research says modern work-related stress damages national output more than 1970s strikes

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Jun 23, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research presented by Bernard Casey of the University of Warwick’s Institute for Employment Research shows that work-related stress today damages national output even more than the loss to national output ...

Found: piece of Canadian history

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Jun 22, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

Archivists in the William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections recently re-discovered a bill of treason dating back to the Rebellion of 1837.

The UK's 'taste dialects' defined for the first time

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Jun 19, 2009 | 2 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Where we are born not only determines how we speak but also how we taste our food and drink.

Colleges expand summer sessions

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Jun 19, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Summer session -- once a relatively small piece of the academic calendar -- is now a full-blown term for most colleges and universities, with more offerings, more students and more of an expectation that you can't graduate ...

Gap between boys and girls persists in tech

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Jun 18, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (4) | 0

My 4-year-old daughter Kalian has become fascinated about printing on the -- "'puter," as she calls it. My wife or I will open a Word file on our family PC, and she'll plop down in the chair, peck away on the keyboard and ...

Online tutorials help elementary school teachers make sense of science

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Jun 18, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

Interactive Web-based science tutorials can be effective tools for helping elementary school teachers construct powerful explanatory models of difficult scientific concepts, and research shows the interactive tutorials are ...

Death Penalty Does Not Deter Murder, According to New Study

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Jun 17, 2009 | 2.6 / 5 (5) | 8

Eighty-eight percent of the country's top criminologists do not believe the death penalty acts as a deterrent to homicide, according to a new study published today in Northwestern University School of Law's Journal of Criminal ...

Why pay when you can copy for free?

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Jun 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

New empirical research identifies successful strategies for the exploitation of television formats. Television formats such as X-Factor or Britain's Got Talent are extremely popular with audiences. Over the last decade, the ...

The power of prayer?

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Jun 17, 2009 | 3 / 5 (11) | 17

Health and religion have always been intertwined, most obviously through prayer on behalf of the sick. Does intercessory prayer for sick people actually help heal them? For thousands of years some people have believed so. ...

How consumers continue enjoying their favorite experiences

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Jun 15, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

We've all experienced listening to a song until we can't stand it. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research may help people continue to enjoy the products and experiences they once loved.

Japanese government plans to scientifically test oft-repeated earthquake instructions

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Jun 14, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 2

"When an earthquake strikes, hide under a table." "Don't rush outside immediately." Are these actually life-saving actions in an earthquake? The Education, Science and Technology Ministry plans to see if such commonly given ...

Calif. to probe latest HIV case in porn industry

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Jun 13, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 1

(AP) -- State health officials are looking into the latest HIV case reported in California's multibillion-dollar porn industry, fearing that reckless practices on film sets might be raising the risk of new infections.

Promising device snags young inventors coveted spot at IShow

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Jun 12, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (10) | 0

The IShow is for young inventors what "American Idol" is for young performers, and a pair of local researchers has won a coveted spot in the IShow finale in Palm Desert, Calif., this weekend.

The dark side of animation

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Jun 11, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (14) | 11

We've all sat through one of those presentations where the animated slides are more interesting than the speaker. Bold and brassy titles slide into view, tasty slices of pie chart fill the screen one by one, and a hail of ...