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Cox kills Sprint-based cellphone service

(AP) -- Cox Communications, the country's third-largest cable company, stopped offering cellphone service Wednesday, saying it's too small to compete with the big phone companies.

Technology / Telecom

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Solar showdown in Calif. tortoises' desert home

(AP) -- On a strip of California's Mojave Desert, two dozen rare tortoises could stand in the way of a sprawling solar-energy complex in a case that highlights mounting tensions between wilderness conservation ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 02, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

RI tracking swine flu through electronic records

(AP) -- Rhode Island health officials are using electronic prescription records to track the spread of swine flu.

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Blubbery 'researchers' lend fin to climate science

(AP) -- Into the Antarctic enigma, the puzzle of a place with too few researchers chasing too many climate mysteries, slowly waddles the elephant seal.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 1




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U.S. clears path for offshore wind farms

Wind farms could soon be on the horizon for much of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Coast, both figuratively and literally. The Interior Department has completed a study examining how offshore wind development would affect the region, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

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Clam fields found at deep, low-temperature Mariana vents

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have marveled at the unusual life forms thriving at high temperature hydrothermal vents of the deep ocean.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers probe 200-year-old shipwreck off RI

(AP) -- For two centuries it rested a mile from shore, shrouded by a treacherous reef from the pleasure boaters and beachgoers who haunt New England's southern coast.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

DNA test that identifies Down syndrome in pregnancy can also detect trisomy 18 and trisomy 13

A newly available DNA-based prenatal blood test that can identify a pregnancy with Down syndrome can also identify two additional chromosome abnormalities: trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome) and trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome). The ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Castaway lizards provide insight into elusive evolutionary process

A University of Rhode Island biologist who released lizards on tiny uninhabited islands in the Bahamas has shed light on the interaction between evolutionary processes that are seldom observed.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Very good experiences don't just happen for patients

A new training program for emergency department staff at Rhode Island Hospital teaches communication skills by having staff take part in simulations of real patient experiences. The goal is to improve the patient experience ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The impact of deleting 5 personality disorders in the new DSM-5

A newly published paper from Rhode Island Hospital reports on the impact to patients if five personality disorders are removed from the upcoming revision to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 5th edition (DSM-5). Based ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study: paid family leave leads to positive economic outcomes

With a growing need for family-friendly workplace policies, a new study commissioned by the National Partnership for Women & Families, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, concludes that providing paid family leave ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Studies uncover keys in sudden cardiac death

Researchers in Rhode Island Hospital's Cardiovascular Research Center have published two new studies focusing on the causes of arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death (SCD) when a genetic disorder is present. ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Motorized shoes ready to roll into stores

Tired of walking? An American inventor has designed a pair of motorized shoes.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 19


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