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Music and speech based on human biology (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A pair of studies by Duke University neuroscientists shows powerful new evidence of a deep biological link between human music and speech.





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Movies promote smoking among Mexican-American adolescents

Medicine & Health / Health

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The more movie scenes of smoking they watch, the more likely Mexican-American youths are to experiment with smoking, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and Dartmouth College report in the ...


Comcast-NBC deal shows future is in content (AP)

Comcast-NBC deal shows future is in content

Technology / Telecom

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(AP) -- Comcast Corp. is buying control of NBC Universal from GE largely because Comcast wants to own more movies and TV shows. The point is to give it a position of strength if fewer people sign up for its ...


Loves Me, Loves Me Not: Researchers Discover New Method for Measuring Hydrophobicity at the Nanoscale

Loves Me, Loves Me Not: Researchers Discover New Method for Measuring Hydrophobicity at the Nanoscale

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered a new, more precise method for measuring how much — or how little - nanoscale interfaces love water.


Samsung Announces the Premium I8910 HD Gold Edition

Samsung Announces the Premium I8910 HD Gold Edition

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

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Samsung Electronics today announced the availability of the I8910 HD (Omnia HD, GT-I8910) Gold Edition. This premium version of the ground-breaking full touch screen smartphone features a luxurious new look ...


BirdsEye -- a new iPhone app -- resolves your rapture for raptors or finding a finch

Biology / Other

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Looking for larks? Searching for surfbirds? Checking for chickadees? There's an app for that.


FTC: Children still marketed violent content

Technology / Other

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(AP) -- The video game industry is doing a better job at keeping young kids away from violent and other inappropriate content than the music and movie businesses, according to a new report by the Federal Trade Commission.


Smokeless tobacco called 'moist snuff' is contaminated with harmful substances

Smokeless tobacco called 'moist snuff' is contaminated with harmful substances

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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A new study on the smokeless tobacco product called moist snuff — placed between lip and gum — has led scientists in Minnesota to urge the tobacco industry to change manufacturing practices to reduce snuff's ...


I see your pain

I see your pain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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(PhysOrg.com) -- How can some sportsmen and women, in the heat of the moment, play on through pain that would floor anyone else? Bert Trautmann, the Manchester City goalkeeper, famously played on through to ...


Study explains how exercise helps patients with peripheral artery disease

Medicine & Health / Research

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Peripheral artery disease (PAD) affects 5 million individuals in the U.S. and is the leading cause of limb amputations. Doctors have long considered exercise to be the single best therapy for PAD, and now a new study helps ...


MySpace Music has launched in Britain with a campaign that includes a playlist of tunes from the Vatican

MySpace Music debuts in Britain

Technology / Internet

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

MySpace Music has launched in Britain with a "Get Real Close" campaign that includes a playlist of tunes from the Vatican.



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