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New research backs FDA ban on flavored cigarettes

Medicine & Health / Health

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

New research showing that thrill-seeking teenagers are especially susceptible to fruit-flavored cigarettes is in line with the recent ban on the sale of flavored cigarettes by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in ...


French scientist Herwan Amire shows two pink winkle in Xelha's Cove,  south of Cancun

Mexico's conch shells yield clues into effects of warming

Biology / Ecology

created 8 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Divers plumb the turquoise depths of ocean waters some 100 kilometers south of this vacation paradise, in search of the distinctive queen conch shell prized by vacationers and souvenir-seekers.


Privacy watchdog files complaint against Facebook

Technology / Internet

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

(AP) -- A Washington-based privacy advocacy group has filed a complaint against Facebook over the social network's latest privacy changes.


Proposed Spacetime Structure Could Provide Hints for Quantum Gravity Theory

Proposed Spacetime Structure Could Provide Hints for Quantum Gravity Theory

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (53) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- Spacetime, which consists of three dimensions of space and one time dimension, is such a large, abstract concept that scientists have a very difficult time understanding and defining it. Moreover, ...


Researchers crack part of the neuronal code

Researchers crack part of the neuronal code

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created 7 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Prostheses for paralysed patients, communication with patients who have lost all capacity for normal communication - the hopes for modern brain research are high. However, such brain-machine ...


Sign language

Sign language puzzle solved

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have known for 40 years that even though it takes longer to use sign language to sign individual words, sentences can be signed, on average, in the same time it takes to say them, ...


Financial instruments could be spiked with unfindable risks

Financial instruments could be spiked with unfindable risks

Other Sciences / Economics

created 22 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a result that may have implications for financial regulation, researchers from computer science and economics have revealed potentially impenetrable problems with the pricing of financial ...


Internet-based customized newscast has been cooking in the InfoLab at a US university for over three years

US university coding future of news

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Personalized newscasts culled from the Web and presented by digital avatars. Baseball stories written by computers using raw data.


New Web tool may help predict risk of second stroke

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Unique 'Climate One Stop' Web Site Unveiled in Copenhagen

Unique 'Climate One Stop' Web Site Unveiled in Copenhagen

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (9) | comments 6

There's a storm brewing -- a storm of information, that is, in climate and environmental research. People are wading through the turbulence, trying to make sense of it all.



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