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Taiwan mulls world's first junk food tax: report

Medicine & Health / Health

created 21 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Taiwan is planning the world's first tax on junk food in a bid to encourage the public to eat healthily and cut obesity rates, a report said Monday.


Why don't robins get fat?

Why don't robins get fat?

Biology / Ecology

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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by the School of Biosciences is shedding light on the reasons why the European robin doesn’t get fat -even though they are feeding for much longer.


Temp workers not stuck in jobs and earn more than regular employees

Other Sciences / Economics

created 10 hours ago | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rather than being trapped in dead-end jobs, many people hired by temporary help agencies actually earn higher hourly wages and are better educated than permanent employees, and move quickly between temporary ...


Egg Processing Plant Carts Can Harbor Bacteria

Egg Processing Plant Carts Can Harbor Bacteria

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Plywood-shelved carts that are used to transport eggs into processing plants can harbor Enterobacteriaceae, according to a microbial survey conducted by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) ...


A man walks his dog in the snow in the East Village

Polluting pets: the devastating impact of man's best friend

Space & Earth / Environment

created 21 hours ago | popularity 1.8 / 5 (13) | comments 22

Man's best friend could be one of the environment's worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle.


Frederic Scheer, head of the plastics manufacturer Cereplast

Potatoes, algae replace oil in US company's plastics

Chemistry / Materials Science

created 21 hours ago | popularity 3.6 / 5 (14) | comments 5

Frederic Scheer is biding his time, convinced that by 2013 the price of oil will be so high that his bio-plastics, made from vegetables and plants, will be highly marketable.


Discovering addiction clues could help smokers kick the habit

Discovering addiction clues could help smokers kick the habit

Medicine & Health / Health

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(PhysOrg.com) -- If you've ever tried to quit smoking, understanding how you got hooked in the first place probably seems irrelevant. But University of Nebraska-Lincoln psychologist Rick Bevins believes those ...


Philippine volcano gets louder, could blow up soon (AP)

Philippine volcano gets louder, could erupt soon

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 21 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- Philippine troops on Monday pressed the last 3,000 villagers who have refused to heed government warnings to leave the danger zone around a volcano that experts say is ready to erupt.


Drug for Multiple Myeloma Demonstrated to Significantly Extend Disease-Free Survival

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created 11 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Initial results from a large, randomized clinical trial for patients with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow, showed that patients who received the oral drug lenalidomide (Revlimid, also ...


First Jesus-era house discovered in Nazareth (AP)

First Jesus-era house discovered in Nazareth

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created 9 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(AP) -- Just in time for Christmas, archaeologists on Monday unveiled what may have been the home of one of Jesus' childhood neighbors. The humble dwelling is the first dating to the era of Jesus to be discovered ...



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