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GPS shoe lets families keep track of elderly relatives

A Teaneck, N.J., shoe maker has joined with a California technology company to create a shoe that uses GPS technology that records where a wearer walks - and can send alerts to caregivers if someone suffering from Alzheimer's ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

First lady promotes healthy food in California

(AP) -- Michelle Obama says a proposed new supermarket in the middle of a blue-collar Hispanic neighborhood in Southern California is an example of how the effort to bring healthy foods to low-income communities is paying ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Investors clamor for Facebook's IPO

Wall Street is about to get Facebook fever. The social networking giant with nearly 1 billion users is expected to file papers any day now to sell stock to the public. The timing stems partly from federal rules that would ...

Technology / Business

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

NASA's NuSTAR ships to Vandenberg for March 14 launch

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, shipped to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on Tuesday, to be mated to its Pegasus launch vehicle. The observatory will detect X-rays ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Stephen Hawking misses second 70th birthday party

British scientist Stephen Hawking was forced to miss a second celebration of his 70th birthday due to illness, organisers said late Thursday.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Dropbox co-founder aims to build his own Google, not sell to them

Four years ago, Drew Houston was just another super-smart hacker with ambitions of starting his own company.

Technology / Business

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Black Friday provides bushfire answers

Clearing vegetation close to houses is the best way to reduce impacts of severe bushfires, according to a team of scientists from Australia and the USA who examined house loss after as a result of Black Saturday, when a series ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Who's wealthy? Beyond net worth, asset and debt levels change our perceptions

(Medical Xpress) -- Will borrowing money to buy a new car make you feel richer? It depends on your net worth, says a new study in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science. “People’s percept ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Even neighborhoods with higher-educated ethnic minorities arouse resistance

The resistance towards ethnically mixed neighborhoods decreases if higher-educated people from ethnic minorities live there. Yet even then a large proportion of the autochthonous Dutch population still prefer to avoid neighbourhoods ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New approach to prostate cancer care draws patients with riskiest disease

(Medical Xpress) -- In choosing where they get treatment, prostate cancer patients tend to opt for a major cancer center if they have severe disease, but stick closer to home for less complicated cases, even when offered ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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