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British women top obesity chart, French aren't all thin: EU

British women and Maltese men topped European obesity rates according to data released Thursday that also undermined popular belief that all French women are thin.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

iPhone 4S coming to more countries on November 11

Apple said Tuesday that the iPhone 4S, the latest version of its hot-selling smartphone, would go on sale in more countries in Asia, Europe and Central America this month.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nearly 90,000 swine flu cases reported worldwide: WHO

Some 89,921 people in 125 countries and territories have caught swine flu, with 382 having died since the outbreak was uncovered in April, World Health Organisation data released Friday showed.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 03, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Controversial research on bird flu

In a top-security lab in the Netherlands, scientists guard specimens of a super-killer influenza that slays half of those it infects and spreads easily from victim to victim.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 28, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 13

Catching a coral killer

Coral reefs play an important role in marine ecosystems, so it's concerning to scientists, as well as ocean conservationists, that many coral reefs around the world are in distress or dying off.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Spain's digital gender gap is larger than European average

Researchers at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) have compared internet use and frequency in Spain with the rest of the 31 European countries. Their results suggest that Spanish women use the internet ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Startup transports Web browsers to underwater world

It's a living, breathing ocean that you can "dive into," exploring underwater habitats from the Indian Ocean to the Sea of Cortez while encountering thousands of fish - as they swim across your computer screen.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Latest iPhone launched in New Zealand

Tech-savvy New Zealanders queued for up to 15 hours to snap up the latest Apple iPhone on Friday, kicking off the second phase of the smartphone's global roll-out.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Apple fixing iPhone 4S battery drain

Apple said it is working to squash software bugs that have evidently been eating away at battery life in the iPhone 4s and other gadgets powered by its latest mobile operating system.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

FRAX calculator issued in version 3.4

FRAX®, the widely used online fracture risk assessment calculator hosted at the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases, University of Sheffield (http://www.shef.ac.uk/FRAX), has now been released in version 3.4. Wi ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

IBM survey reveals new type of energy concern: Lack of consumer understanding

IBM today unveiled findings from its "2011 IBM Global Utility Consumer Survey," which revealed that many consumers around the globe do not understand the basic unit of electricity pricing and other energy concepts used by ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

350 million adults have diabetes: Study reveals the scale of global epidemic

A major international study collating and analyzing worldwide data on diabetes since 1980 has found that the number of adults with the disease reached 347 million in 2008, more than double the number in 1980. The research, ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 25, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Low fertility in Europe -- is there still reason to worry?

The post-war trend of falling birth rates has been reversed across Europe, according to a new study. However, despite an increasing emphasis on family and fertility policies in Europe, this recent development involves social, ...

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created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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