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To queue or not to queue?

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 22, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

If there's one thing that separates humankind from the animals, it's that human beings wait in lines. To make a deposit at the bank, to pay for groceries, even to vote -- we've all learned to queue, one behind the other. ...





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Caltech scientists discover aggression-promoting pheromone in flies

Scientists discover aggression-promoting pheromone in flies (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Have you ever found yourself struggling to get your order taken at a crowded bar or lunch counter, only to walk away in disgust as more aggressive customers elbow their way to the front? It turns out that ...


Gift Guide: High-tech happiness for $100 or less (AP)

Gift Guide: High-tech happiness for $100 or less

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- No one's going to blame you for keeping holiday gifts minimal this year. But if you want to round out your handmade cards, scarves, pickles and jam with a gadget or gizmo, here are a handful of our ...


Jumping the queue for official documents

Technology / Software

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Software developed by European researchers allows citizens and local governments to exchange official documents over mobile phones. The software could help usher in the era of mobile government services and ...


Hurdles remain as FCC ponders Internet data rules (AP)

Hurdles remain as FCC ponders Internet data rules

Technology / Internet

created Oct 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 8

(AP) -- With Democrats in charge in Washington, supporters of so-called "net neutrality" rules seem poised to finally push through requirements that high-speed Internet providers give equal treatment to all ...


Blueprint from the interior of a catalyst

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Irregularities in industrial catalysts can inhibit the conversion of crude oil, Utrecht University chemists have concluded. They were the first to provide a detailed blueprint of the interior of a commercially used catalyst ...


Rhapsody streaming app approved for iPhones (AP)

Rhapsody streaming app approved for iPhones

Technology / Software

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- RealNetworks Inc.'s subscription music service Rhapsody has been approved for use on iPhones and iPod Touches, the first time Apple Inc. has allowed an on-demand music streaming program on its devices ...


East German Trabant cars

Smoke-spewing Trabant poised for rebirth as electric car

Technology / Energy

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Once the much-mocked symbol of drab communist East Germany, Trabant cars are revving up for a dramatic rebirth as electric cars -- 20 years after they drove through the fallen Berlin Wall to freedom.


Britain to outlaw most private organ transplants

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- The British government said Friday that it plans to ban private organ transplants from dead donors to allay fears that prospective recipients can buy their way to the front of the line.


Suh Nam-Pyo, president of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

SKorean moves to turn science fiction into fact

Technology / Hi Tech

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 9

A computer screen that folds up like a pocket handkerchief, a harbour that goes out to a ship and a road which recharges electric vehicles -- it sounds like the stuff of science fiction.


Bathroom Web site tells you when you can go without missing key parts of a film

Technology / Internet

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

If you're heading to a movie theater this weekend, perhaps to see the new Disney-Pixar film, there's a Web site that could help you know when to get "Up" and go to the bathroom.



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