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Replicating Milgram: Researcher finds most will administer shocks when prodded by 'authority figure'
Dec 19, 2008 |
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Nearly 50 years after one of the most controversial behavioral experiments in history, a social psychologist has found that people are still just as willing to administer what they believe are painful electric shocks to others ...
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Microsoft's monthly security fixes spare Windows 7
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(AP) -- Microsoft's newest computer operating system has survived its first few weeks on the market without needing any security fixes.
Scientists to develop 'swarms' of miniature robotic ocean explorers (w/ Video)
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In an effort to plug gaps of knowledge about key ocean processes, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have been awarded nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation ...
China chip maker to pay $200 mln to settle TSMC claims
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) said Tuesday China's top chip maker will pay it 200 million US dollars cash after they settled a long-running dispute over alleged theft of trade secrets.
Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance
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A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they lacked health insurance and thus had reduced access to care. That figure is ...
Back pain permanently sidelines soldiers at war
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Military personnel evacuated out of Iraq and Afghanistan because of back pain are unlikely to return to the line of duty regardless of the treatment they receive, according to research led by a Johns Hopkins pain management ...
Deepening the search for clues to rheumatoid arthritis
Nov 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The gnawing pain of rheumatoid arthritis is a signal that the body’s immune system has hit the wrong target: its own cartilage and bone.
Deep creep means milder, more frequent earthquakes along Southern California's San Jacinto fault
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Nov 08, 2009 |
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With an average of four mini-earthquakes per day, Southern California's San Jacinto fault constantly adjusts to make it a less likely candidate for a major earthquake than its quiet neighbor to the east, the ...
W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback
Nov 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.
Sea lions killed, but Columbia salmon toll rises
Nov 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Killing or removing 25 California sea lions over the past two years has not reduced the toll on salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River.
eStadium application brings multimedia sports features to smartphones
Nov 06, 2009 |
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The intimate and spirited quarters of a stadium offer perhaps the most ideal venues to experience an athletic event. Or do they?
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