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Web site runs elaborate Secret Santa gift exchange

Technology / Internet

created 6 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- 'Tis the season for heart-melting tales of spontaneous good will among strangers, which, like the rest of our relationships, has gotten a lot more convenient since the advent of the Internet.


Small Fingers More Touch Sensitive

Small Fingers More Touch Sensitive

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created 18 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

When it comes to finger sensitivity, bigger isn't always better.


Callers of all incomes ditching landlines for cell

Technology / Telecom

created 18 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The number of households with cell phones but no landlines continues to grow, but the recession doesn't seem to be forcing poor cellular users to abandon their traditional wired phones any faster than higher-income ...


New Web tool may help predict risk of second stroke

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Scientists have developed a new web-based tool that may better predict whether a person will suffer a second stroke within 90 days of a first stroke, according to research published in the December 16, 2009, online issue ...


The drink and violence ?gender gap?

Medicine & Health / Health

created 19 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Women and men are at the same risk of violence - until they start drinking, new research from Cardiff University has shown.


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Study: Earth's polar ice sheets vulnerable to even moderate global warming

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 21 hours ago | popularity 2.8 / 5 (26) | comments 11

A new analysis of the geological record of the Earth's sea level, carried out by scientists at Princeton and Harvard universities and published in the Dec. 16 issue of Nature, employs a novel statistical approa ...


Astronomers find super-Earth using amateur, off-the-shelf technology

Astronomers Find Super-Earth Using Amateur, Off-the-Shelf Technology (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 21 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (18) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a "super-Earth" orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. They found the distant planet with a small fleet of ground-based ...


Scientists use DNA sequencing to attack lung cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created 22 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Aided by next-generation DNA sequencing technology, an international team of researchers has gained insights into how more than 60 carcinogens associated with cigarette smoke bind to and chemically modify human DNA, ultimately ...


Scientists use cell phone records to predict spread of malaria

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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University of Florida researchers at work on a malaria elimination study in Africa have become the first to predict the spread of the disease using cell phone records.


Surveying bird biodiversity from space?

Biology / Ecology

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A fundamental rule of wildlife ecology says that diverse habitats foster greater biodiversity: The Amazon has far more species than Greenland. But how do habitat and biodiversity relate in a state like Wisconsin, ...



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