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Google+ opens up to teenagers

Google on Thursday opened up Google+ to teenagers, just days after loosening the rules about using real names on the social network.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Google to allow some nicknames on Plus service

Google is relaxing a requirement that real names be used on its Plus social network.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Teasing is good for you!

(PhysOrg.com) -- The use of insults at a young age improves social skills and helps children develop a sense of humour according to research by Dr Erin Heerey of the School of Psychology.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0




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A spoonful of sugar or a bitter blocker?

Dr Hannah Newton, an historian of science with an interest in how previous generations coped with childhood illness, digs up some 17th century tips for making medicine taste better and finds evidence for common ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A pocket of star formation

(PhysOrg.com) -- This new view shows a stellar nursery called NGC 3324. It was taken using the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The intense ultraviolet ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New 'shieldcroc' species of ancient crocodile discovered

A University of Missouri researcher has identified a new species of prehistoric crocodile. The extinct creature, nicknamed "Shieldcroc" due to a thick-skinned shield on its head, is an ancestor of today's ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Suriname forest reveals 46 new species

A "cowboy frog" and a "crayola katydid" are among 46 new species that have been discovered in the dense forests of the tiny South American nation of Suriname, scientists said Wednesday.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists discover unusual 'tulip' creature

A bizarre creature that lived in the ocean more than 500 million years ago has emerged from the famous Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Tit-for-tat hack as Israeli posts Saudi credit cards

An Israeli hacker published details of what he claimed were more than 200 Saudi-owned credit cards online overnight in a revenge attack after a similar move by "Saudi" hackers earlier this month.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Mars-bound NASA rover aiming for an August landing

A NASA spacecraft hurtling toward Mars prepared to fire its thrusters Wednesday to put itself on course for an August landing.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Planetary professor shows what alien sunset really looks like

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the great things about science is how so many people are able to use their imagination to conjure ideas, concepts or in some cases actual images of things in their mind, and then to ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Hubble breaks new ground with discovery of distant exploding star

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has looked deep into the distant universe and detected the feeble glow of a star that exploded more than 9 billion years ago. The sighting is the first finding of an ambitious ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Mars-bound NASA rover adjusts course to red planet (Update)

Firing on all engines, NASA's latest rover to Mars executed a course adjustment Wednesday that put it on track for a landing on the red planet in August.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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