Enjoying school key to tackling teenage pregnancy
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Youth development programmes that tackle deprivation and help children and young people enjoy school are successful in reducing teenage pregnancy rates, say researchers in BMJ today.
Rosetta bound for outer Solar System after final Earth swingby (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- This morning, mission controllers confirmed that ESA’s comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth at 8:45 CET as planned, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for an epic ...
Clinton: No binding climate deal at Denmark talks
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Next month's climate change summit in Copenhagen is not likely to produce a legally binding treaty to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that are widely blamed for global warming, U.S. Secretary of ...
NPD: October video game sales tumble 19 percent
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- After a slight reprieve in September, U.S. video game retail sales slumped again in October, unable to escape the economic turmoil that's cutting into consumer spending and swelling the ranks of unemployed.
CDC's swine flu toll: 4,000 dead, 22 million ill
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Estimates of deaths caused by the swine flu have grown to nearly 4,000 since April, roughly quadrupling previous estimates. But that doesn't mean swine flu suddenly has worsened.
Does modernization affect children's cognitive development?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Societal and technological changes have taken place at a dizzying pace over recent decades. A new cross-cultural study aimed to determine whether these dramatic changes have had an effect on the thinking skills that are learned ...
YouTube to support 1080p high-definition videos
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- YouTube says starting next week it will support the same high-resolution video that can now be seen on flat screen TVs.
Russia gains new land after quake, lava flows: scientist
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Russia, the world's largest country, has grown even larger recently thanks to an earthquake and a volcanic eruption in its seismically active far eastern regions, a scientist said on Friday.
Samsung Launches Open Mobile Platform: Samsung Bada
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Samsung Electronics today announced it will launch its own open mobile platform, Samsung Bada [bada] in December. This new addition to Samsung’s mobile ecosystem enables developers to create applications for ...
Review: 'Band Hero,' 'Lego Rock Band' -- clean rock
Nov 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Musical video games are already family-friendly. There's no violence, and their developers have already weeded out most of the sex and drugs in rock 'n roll. And just about anyone can pick up a fake ...
Quarter of a million children in England at risk of skin cancer from sunbeds
Nov 12, 2009 |
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An estimated quarter of a million 11-17 year olds in England are being put at increased risk of developing malignant melanoma by using sunbeds, warn researchers in a letter to this week's BMJ.
Gene knockout may cheer up mice
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Removing the PKCI/HINT1 gene from mice has an anti-depressant-like and anxiolytic-like effect. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience applied a battery of behavioral tests to the PKCI/HINT1 knocko ...
Doctors' tests often miss high blood pressure in kids with kidney disease
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Many children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) who show normal blood pressure readings at the doctor's office have high blood pressure when tested at home, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of ...
Brazil: Deforestation sees biggest drop in 20 yrs
Nov 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46 percent from August 2008 to July 2009 - the biggest annual decline in two decades, the government said Thursday.
New chemical reaction offers opportunities for drug development
Nov 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at University College Dublin have solved a chemistry problem which has stumped researchers worldwide for more than a decade. The results have earned the group the cover story of the leading scientific ...
