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Study finds congestion pricing works best when partnered with land-use planning

What does it take to convince motorists to drive less -- and thereby reduce traffic congestion, air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions?

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Running on a faster track: Researchers develop scheduling tool to save time on public transport

What matters for commuters is not just if the train will be on time, but how long the journey will take. It's an important factor in public transportation and can make the difference in helping commuters choose mass transit ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Are Magnetically Levitating 'Sky Pods' the Future of Travel?

(PhysOrg.com) -- As a society, we are increasingly interested in finding new ways of transportation that are cleaner for the environment. New concepts in mass transit seem to be one of the main ways to move ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (28) | comments 47 weblog

Got ear plugs? You may want to sport them on the subway and other mass transit

The U.S. mass transit system, the largest in the world, provides affordable and efficient transportation to more than 33 million riders each weekday. The system is generally considered one of the safest modes of travel. But ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2




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Curry spice component may help slow prostate tumor growth

Curcumin, an active component of the Indian curry spice turmeric, may help slow down tumor growth in castration-resistant prostate cancer patients on androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), a study from researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Planets, planets everywhere: But researcher says finding life on these new discoveries is challenging

Recent discoveries have transformed scientific understanding of the galaxy, showing a Milky Way teeming with planets, some of them circling stars in bizarre configurations compared to the staid solar system, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

China to further tighten control of microblogs

A senior Chinese propaganda official has said real-name registration for the nation's hugely popular microblogs will be expanded, as authorities tighten their grip on the web amid fear of unrest.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Re-thinking an alien world

Forty light years from Earth, a rocky world named "55 Cancri e" circles perilously close to a stellar inferno.  Completing one orbit in only 18 hours, the alien planet is 26 times closer to its parent star than Mercury ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

The Milky Way contains at least 100 billion planets according to survey

(PhysOrg.com) -- Our Milky Way galaxy contains a minimum of 100 billion planets according to a detailed statistical study based on the detection of three extrasolar planets by an observational technique called ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

New class of planetary systems: Astronomers find two new planets orbiting double suns

Using data from NASA’s Kepler Mission, astronomers announced the discovery of two new transiting “circumbinary” planet systems -- planets that orbit two stars. This work establishes that such ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

A wealth of habitable planets in the Milky Way

An international team has used the technique of gravitational microlensing to measure how common planets are in the Milky Way.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 102 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover a Saturn-like ring system eclipsing a sun-like star

A team of astrophysicists from the University of Rochester and Europe has discovered a ring system in the constellation Centaurus that invites comparisons to Saturn.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Discovery of three smallest exoplanets: The Barnard's star connection

The discovery of the three smallest planets yet orbiting a distant star, which was announced today at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society, has an unusual connection to Barnard's star, one ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Calculating what's in the universe from the biggest color 3-D map

Since 2000, the three Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS I, II, III) have surveyed well over a quarter of the night sky and produced the biggest color map of the universe in three dimensions ever. Now scientists ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 10 | with audio podcast


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