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You can look -- but don't touch

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Consumers are often told that if they break an item, they buy it. But a new study suggests that if they just touch an item for more than a few seconds, they may also end up buying it.





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Researchers evaluate highway rest areas for wind power

Technology / Energy

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (45) | comments 0

Illinois is the Prairie State and home to the Windy City. And sometimes, when standing out in that prairie and feeling the wind racing across the state, you begin to wonder if there is anything between here and Kansas that ...


Statewide program to improve emergency care for children

Medicine & Health / Other

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

An initiative is underway to improve emergency medical care for Illinois' youngest patients. Loyola University Health System (LUHS), in collaboration with the Illinois Department of Public Health and other area hospitals, ...


Savings help the medicine go down

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 25, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

[B]Prescription drug coverage for low income seniors reduces Medicaid[/B] A new study of state-subsidized pharmacy assistance programs showed that providing prescription drug coverage for low-income seniors reduces Medicaid and ...


Real and virtual pendulums swing as one in mixed reality state

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 3

Using a virtual pendulum and its real-world counterpart, scientists at the University of Illinois have created the first mixed reality state in a physical system. Through bidirectional instantaneous coupling, each pendulum ...


'Unfunded liabilities' a financial myth, expert says

Other Sciences / Economics

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A growing chorus of complaints about the U.S. government’s “unfunded” debts may be unsettling, but no cause to become unnerved, a University of Illinois tax expert says.


Improved technique determines structure in membrane proteins

Chemistry /

created Aug 17, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Understanding the form and function of certain proteins in the human body is becoming faster and easier, thanks to the work of researchers at the University of Illinois.


New particle explains odd behavior in cuprate superconductors

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 17, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (47) | comments 0

New fundamental particles aren’t found only at Fermilab and at other particle accelerators. They also can be found hiding in plain pieces of ceramic, scientists at the University of Illinois report.


Aluminum-oxide nanopore beats other materials for DNA analysis

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fast and affordable genome sequencing has moved a step closer with a new solid-state nanopore sensor being developed by researchers at the University of Illinois.


Smaller mosquitoes are more likey to be infected with viruses causing human diseases

Biology /

created Nov 03, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An entomologist at the Illinois Natural History Survey, a division of the new UI Institute for Natural Resource Sustainability, says smaller mosquitoes are more likely to be infected with viruses that cause diseases in humans. ...


Over time, an invasive plant loses its toxic edge

Over time, an invasive plant loses its toxic edge

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Like most invasive plants introduced to the U.S. from Europe and other places, garlic mustard first found it easy to dominate the natives. A new study indicates that eventually, however, its primary weapon ...



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