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The virtue of variety: More options can lead to healthier choices

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 15, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Could longer menus lead people to choose salads over French fries? According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, people who choose from a large variety of menu items are more likely to make healthy choice ...





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Sharp to Introduce World’s Largest 108-Inch LCD Monitor for Commercial Applications

Sharp to Introduce World's Largest 108-Inch LCD Monitor for Commercial Applications

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 13, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Sharp Corporation will introduce into the Japanese market a 108V-inch LCD monitor, the world’s largest, for business and commercial applications.


Early whales gave birth on land, fossil find reveals

Early whales gave birth on land, fossil find reveals (Video)

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two newly described fossil whales---a pregnant female and a male of the same species--reveal how primitive whales gave birth and provide new insights into how whales made the transition from ...


Mars Rover Opportunity Looks Back at Arena of Exploration

Mars Rover Opportunity Ascends to Level Ground

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 01, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has climbed out of the large crater that it had been examining from the inside since last September.


Scientists find 'great Pacific Ocean garbage patch'

Scientists find 'great Pacific Ocean garbage patch'

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (33) | comments 30

Scientists have just completed an unprecedented journey into the vast and little-explored "Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch."


Plants live, die according to their size

Plants live, die according to their size

Biology /

created Oct 22, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (42) | comments 2

Plants self-regulate their populations to maintain stability and optimize their lives, with the lengths of their lives directly related to their mass, a recent study has found. Further, a single scaling power ...


Nanocrystals' 'self-purification' mechanisms explained by energetics

Nanocrystals' 'self-purification' mechanisms explained by energetics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 21, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (55) | comments 0

Doping semiconductor nanocrystals will likely provide a basis for a wide variety of nano applications. But since the tiny nanocrystals tend to repel impurities, scientists must first find a way to overcome ...


Some obese people perceive body size as OK, dismiss need to lose weight

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Some obese people misperceive that their body size is normal and think they don't need to lose weight, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2009.


Building the nuclear pore piece by piece

Building the nuclear pore piece by piece

Biology /

created Apr 16, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 0

The nuclear pore complexes are the sole gatekeepers for the cell’s nucleus — proteins, RNA, viruses, anything that passes between the nucleus and the rest of the cell has to use one of these giant protein ...


Bigger not necessarily better, when it comes to brains

Bigger not necessarily better, when it comes to brains

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals, despite only having a brain the size of a pinhead, say scientists at Queen Mary, University of London.


Tiny cameras have big market

Technology / Hi Tech

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Having earned a reputation helping other companies make smaller and faster semiconductors, San Jose-based Tessera now hopes to use its miniature camera technology to revolutionize how a wide array of gadgets interact with ...



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