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Getting a 'Head Start' on obesity prevention

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Almost 1 million preschool children from low-income families are enrolled in Head Start, a national program for young children that readies them for school. While the program provides them with educational and social skill ...


New program teaches preschoolers reading skills, getting along with others

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 14, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A study funded by the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies shows that it's possible to teach preschoolers the pre-reading skills they need for later school success, while at the same time fostering the ...





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Bullet pulled from woman's head in China after 42 years: report

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Doctors in southwest China have successfully removed a bullet from a woman's head 42 years after she was shot, putting an end to decades of increasingly unbearable pain, state media said Friday.


A water snake that predicts which way fish will turn when it attacks

A water snake that predicts which way fish will turn when it attacks

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Forget the old folk tales about snakes hypnotizing their prey. The tentacled snake from South East Asia has developed a more effective technique. The small water snake has found a way to startle its prey so ...


Study: Lack of capital not a 'death sentence' for start-ups

Other Sciences / Economics

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A new study from North Carolina State University is turning the conventional wisdom about technology start-up companies on its head, showing that ventures with moderate levels of undercapitalization can still be successful ...


Eager gamers line up for 'Modern Warfare 2'

Technology / Software

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Ryan Norwalk has cleared his schedule. The 26-year-old California State University student plans to spend Tuesday gunning down foes in "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2," the highly anticipated first-person shooter ...


Raindrops fall near Waterloo Bridge in London, in 2008

Raindrops keep falling on your head -- but they burst first

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 5

For generations, schoolchildren have been taught that raindrops start as micro-droplets that then gather together in clouds with their neighbours to become bigger droplets.


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Finnish firms announce electric car plans

Technology / Energy

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Finnish engineering company Metso's unit Valmet Automotive and utility Fortum said Thursday they will jointly develop an electric concept car to be shown at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2010.


Catalonian researchers design smart room

Catalonian researchers design smart room

Technology / Hi Tech

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A room with 85 microphones and eight cameras that act as the eyes and ears of a projected talking head that is capable of recognizing speakers and turning towards their position. The project by these UPC researchers ...


Mothers give interloper's offspring a head start in life

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study has revealed that mother birds can provide an early advantage to the chicks that they have sired with their non-social partner (known as extra-pair offspring).


Honda says to open bio-ethanol research centre

Honda says to open bio-ethanol research centre

Technology / Energy

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Japan's Honda Motor Co., seeking a boost in the race to build greener automobiles, said Thursday it would open a research centre to develop and produce bio-ethanol fuel from non-edible plant matter.


Robots on a recycling rampage

Electronics / Robotics

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- More than 150 robots, in a wide variety of sizes, shapes and capabilities, will battle it out on May 6 and 7 in a contest to see which can collect the most soda cans and simulated bales of trash and return ...



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