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A 'reunion' that left her embarrassed

Technology / Internet

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Q. In December, I was contacted by 16 former colleagues and friends who had received "invitations" from me through Reunion.com, a Web site I had never visited. It was quite embarrassing, because the colleagues were at a ...





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Roads not taken disappear more quickly than we realize

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 17, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 0

Researchers have identified a key reason why people make mistakes when they try to predict what they will like. When predicting how much we will enjoy a future experience, people tend to compare it to its alternatives—that ...


Researchers create first chikungunya animal model

Biology /

created Feb 19, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers have developed the first animal model of the infection caused by chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an emerging arbovirus associated with large-scale epidemics that hit the Indian Ocean (especially the French Island of ...


Chikungunya virus and maternal infection

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 18, 2008 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Chikungunya virus, an infectious agent transmitted by mosquitoes, appears seldom to harm infants of mothers infected early in pregnancy, but can frequently cause serious problems, including lasting brain injury, in babies ...


Huge waves that hit Reunion Island tracked from space

Huge waves that hit Reunion Island tracked from space

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 16, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 0

The origin and movement of waves reaching up to 11 metres that devastated France's Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean on Saturday evening have been detected with ESA's Envisat satellite.


Huge waves from 1 storm slam coasts some 6000 km apart

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 30, 2007 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Huge waves that struck Reunion Island and coastlines across Indonesia earlier this month all originated from the same storm that occurred south of Cape Town, South Africa, and were tracked across the entire Indian Ocean for ...


In Twin Paradox Twist, the Accelerated Twin is Older

In Twin Paradox Twist, the Accelerated Twin is Older

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (42) | comments 85

Just when you thought you were beginning to understand the twin paradox (maybe), scientists have found something new to ponder. In the original version of the famous thought experiment on time dilation, one ...


Remarkable journeys may save bat species

Biology /

created Jul 12, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers have new hope for the future of an endangered species of bat after two of the flying mammals traveled 110 miles to a Welsh cave to live.


UF study: World shark attacks rise slightly but continue long-term dip

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 14, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Shark attacks edged up slightly in 2006 but continued an overall long-term decline as overfishing and more cautious swimmers helped take a bite out of the aggressive encounters, new University of Florida research finds.


Project Whirlwind comes home

Project Whirlwind comes home

Technology / Other

created May 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Project Whirlwind Computer collection -- a compilation of pioneering digital computing research conducted at MIT in the 1940s and 1950s -- has been transferred back to the Institute from ...


W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback (AP)

China sends panda expert to Taiwan to aid breeding

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Nothing like a little time apart to rekindle the affections that could lead to a baby panda.



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