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It's about time: Consumers may be more likely to enjoy purchase when ads mention time

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Do consumers respond more positively to advertisements that mention time ("Miller Time") or money ("Perfection Has Its Price")? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research found that mentioning time makes consumers more ...





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Scientists show that plants have measure of the shortest day

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is not only people who feel the effects of short winter days - new research by the University of Edinburgh and the University of Warwick has shed light on how plants calculate their own winter solstice. ...


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Controlling the TV with a wave of the hand

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Touchscreens are so yesterday. Remote controls? So last century. The future is controlling your devices with a simple wave of the hand.


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Probing Question: What are the origins of skiing?

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Swoosh…Undeniably, this is the sound of skiing. As winter approaches, legions of avid skiers are preparing their equipment. Skis are being waxed, boots are being pulled out of storage and people are yearning ...


How nurses can better support families of dying children

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Most nurses that work in a children's critical care unit feel prepared and trained to help parents during the final moments of their child's life and the difficult hours that follow.


The world's next economic hot spot?

The world's next economic hot spot?

Other Sciences / Economics

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A bailout by neighboring emirate Abu Dhabi has apparently stabilized Dubai’s financial crisis. But the longer-term economic impact—on Dubai and other nations—could grow more serious.


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Tiny whispering gallery: Sensor can detect a single nanoparticle and take its measurement

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanotechnology has already made it to the shelves of your local pharmacy and grocery: nanoparticles are found in anti-odor socks, makeup, makeup remover, sunscreen, anti-graffiti paint, home ...


Survey of young adults finds wide majority support health reform

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

An overwhelming majority -- 88 percent -- of young adults across the political spectrum think it is important for Congress and the President to pass health reform legislation that would assure affordable health insurance ...


Acid oceans: the 'evil twin' of climate change (AP)

Acid oceans: the 'evil twin' of climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (21) | comments 24

(AP) -- Far from Copenhagen's turbulent climate talks, the sea lions, harbor seals and sea otters reposing along the shoreline and kelp forests of this protected marine area stand to gain from any global ...


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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Resumes Observations

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are receiving new science data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter after the spacecraft's six science instruments resumed observations today.


World's rarest gorilla ready for its close-up

World's rarest gorilla ready for its close-up (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The world's rarest -- and most camera shy -- great ape has finally been captured on professional video on a forested mountain in Cameroon, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society and Germany's NDR Naturfilm.



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