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What's the best hangover cure? Truth be told, there isn't one

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the holiday party season at hand, UNC's Dr. James C. Garbutt offers these tips about how to enjoy a few drinks responsibly -- while sparing yourself and those around you from the potentially ...


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Coffee Consumption Associated with Reduced Risk of Advanced Prostate Cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- While it is too early for physicians to start advising their male patients to take up the habit of regular coffee drinking, data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers ...


Nobel winners helped by independence, coffee (AP)

Nobel winners helped by independence, coffee

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Intellectual freedom, independent research and frequent coffee breaks with colleagues helped this year's Nobel Prize winners make their groundbreaking scientific discoveries.


Caffeine doesn't reverse the negative cognitive impact of alcohol, study shows

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

People who drink may want to know that coffee won't sober them up, according to new laboratory research. Instead, a cup of coffee may make it harder for people to realize they're drunk.


Microsoft Store mirrors popular concept of its rival

Technology / Internet

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blink an eye, and the Microsoft Store could be mistaken for an Apple Store.


STAR TRAK for December: Geminid meteors flash in December skies

STAR TRAK for December: Geminid meteors flash in December skies

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The annual Geminid meteor shower, which will reach its maximum on the night of Dec. 13-14, usually offers the best show of the year, outperforming even the Perseid shower of August. This year ...


Probing Question: Is forensic science on TV accurate?

Probing Question: Is forensic science on TV accurate?

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Turn on the television any evening and you're apt to see a scene such as this: Five crime scene investigators, or CSIs, return to the crime scene at night to follow up on some leads. CSI Kathryn Willows looks ...


First Pump-Probe Experiment at LCLS Completed

First Pump-Probe Experiment at Linac Coherent Light Source Completed

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first experiment using the Linac Coherent Light Source to illuminate molecules via a "pump-probe" technique has been completed by an international team of more than 30 scientists from ...


New climate targets may not change daily life much (AP)

New climate targets may not change daily life much

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (19) | comments 31

(AP) -- Americans' day-to-day lives won't change noticeably if President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next decade, experts say.


Does carbon labelling give developing countries a bad deal?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Carbon labelling could unfairly disadvantage economies in the developing world, and mislead consumers, according to an interdisciplinary project carried out by the UK Research Councils' Rural Economy and Land Use Programme. ...


Workers at the Statkraft Osmotic power plant prototype in Tofte

Harnessing the power of salt, Norway tries osmotic power

Technology / Energy

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 4

After wind, sun, currents and tides, a company is preparing to make clean electricity by harnessing another natural phenomenon, the energy-unleashing encounter of freshwater and seawater.


Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss

Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight - creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid ...


Three of a kind

Three of a kind: Revealing language’s universal essence

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- On the surface, English, Japanese, and Kinande, a member of the Bantu family of languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have little in common. It is not just that the vocabularies ...


Coffee break: Compound brewing new research in colon, breast cancer

Coffee break: Compound brewing new research in colon, breast cancer (w/ Podcast)

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A compound in coffee has been found to be estrogenic in studies by Texas AgriLife Research scientists.


Few Americans make end-of-life wishes known (AP)

Few Americans make end-of-life wishes known

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Lillian Landry always said she wasn't afraid to die. So when death came last week, the 99-year-old was lying peacefully in a hospice with no needles or tubes. Her final days saw her closest friend ...