Questionable degrees raise doubts on Navy surgeon general's vetting October 01, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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When Vice Adm. Donald Arthur retired as Navy surgeon general, Adm. Mike Mullen - now chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - paid tribute to a "Renaissance man." "His resume says a lot," Mullen said. "B.A., M.A., J.D., Ph.D. ... | |
Are we trading energy conservation for toxic air emissions? October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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A team of Yale scientists has found that certain countries and some U.S. states stand to benefit from the use of compact fluorescent lighting more than others in the fight against global warming. Some places may even produce ... | |
 Internet pop-up "scareware purveyors" sued September 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Microsoft and Washington state's top prosecutor have filed a lawsuit to stop "scareware purveyors" that trick people with pop-up messages claiming computers need critical repairs. | |
 A Star That Bursts, Blinks and Disappears September 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 41 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "Twinkle, twinkle little star" goes the nursery rhyme. Now, astronomers are reporting on a strange case where one of the littlest of stars "twinkled" with gamma rays, X-rays, and light -- ... | |
Computer hardware 'guardians' protect users from undiscovered bugs September 30, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As computer processor chips grow faster and more complex, they are likely to make it to market with more design bugs. But that may be OK, according to University of Michigan researchers who have devised a ... | |
Immigrant children from poor countries academically outperform those from developed countries September 30, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Immigrants who seek a better life in Western countries may not be able to escape the influence of their home country when it comes to their children's academic performance, according to findings from the October issue of ... | |
 Dinosaurs survived 2 mass extinctions and 50 million years before taking over the world and dominating ecosystems September 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Reporting in Biology Letters, Steve Brusatte, Professor Michael Benton, and colleagues at the University of Bristol show that dinosaurs did not proliferate immediately after they originated, but that ... | |
Pneumococcal vaccine associated with 50 percent lower risk of heart attacks 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Pneumococcal (pneumonia) vaccination was associated with a 50% lower risk of heart attacks 2 years after vaccination, suggests a large hospital-based case-control study published in CMAJ. | |
 NASA spacecraft ready to explore outer solar system 21 hours ago | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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The first NASA spacecraft to image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space is ready for launch Oct. 19. The two-year mission will begin from ... | |
 India to launch unmanned lunar mission this month 22 hours ago | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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India will launch its first lunar mission on October 22 from southern India, a top official from the country's space agency said Monday. | |
Girls have harder time than boys adjusting in language-learning environment 22 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Girls who don't share a common language may have more difficulty adjusting socially than boys, according to surprising new Michigan State University research looking at language acquisition among young children. | |
Mystery illness kills four in South Africa: official October 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Four people, two of them Zambians, have died in Johannesburg of a mystery flu-like illness, the health department spokesman said Monday. | |
 3 share Nobel prize for work on AIDS and cancer October 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Three European scientists shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for separate discoveries of viruses that cause AIDS and cervical cancer, breakthroughs that helped doctors fight the deadly ... | |
 Obama has huge lead over McCain -- in cyberspace October 05, 2008 | User rating: 2.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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If the US presidential election was being held in cyberspace, Barack Obama would win in a landslide. The Democratic candidate has raised tens of millions of dollars more than Republican John McCain online ... | |
 Gas From the Past Gives Scientists New Insights into Climate and the Oceans October 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In recent years, public discussion of climate change has included concerns that increased levels of carbon dioxide will contribute to global warming, which in turn may change the circulation ... | |
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