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Study Examines Racial 'Blind Spots' in Chicago Area Communities

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Racial residential segregation in the Chicago area may be perpetuated by a lack of knowledge of communities across racial lines, according to a new study led by a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher.


Newly discovered star one of hottest in Galaxy

Newly discovered star one of hottest in Galaxy (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers at The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics have discovered one of the hottest stars in the Galaxy with a surface temperature of around 200,000 degrees ...


Spotting evidence of directed percolation

Spotting evidence of directed percolation

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team of physicists has, for the first time, seen convincing experimental evidence for directed percolation, a phenomenon that turns up in computer models of the ways diseases spread through a population ...


Hawaiian hot spot has deep roots

Hawaiian hot spot has deep roots

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hawaii may be paradise for vacationers, but for geologists it has long been a puzzle. Plate tectonic theory readily explains the existence of volcanoes at boundaries where plates split apart ...


Lose the fat: Targeting grease to curtail sewer overflows

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sewer overflows are a nasty business, posing dangers to human health and the environment. North Carolina State University is launching a new project with funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that targets ...


Judge rejects AT&T's bid to pull Verizon ads

Technology / Business

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request by AT&T Inc. to force competitor Verizon Wireless to pull its "There's a Map for That" commercials.


Research: Baby's sleep position is major factor in 'flat-headedness'

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A baby's sleep position is the best predictor of a misshapen skull condition known as deformational plagiocephaly ? or the development of flat spots on an infant's head -- according to findings reported by ...


Study: Slowdown in warming last year not permanent

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (19) | comments 18

(AP) -- Cooler temperatures in North America last year do not mean global warming is easing, government and academic scientists said Friday.


Group contends popular Zhu Zhu Pets toys unsafe (AP)

Group contends popular Zhu Zhu Pets toys unsafe

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A consumer group contends one of the holiday season's must-have toys is unsafe.


The creature was found at a depth of 161 metres

Japanese researchers film rare baby fish 'fossil'

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Japanese marine researchers said Tuesday they had found and successfully filmed a young coelacanth -- a rare type of fish known as "a living fossil" -- in deep water off Indonesia.



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