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Twitter buys Mixer Labs to map tweeting locations

Technology / Internet

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Twitter is buying a startup called Mixer Labs in an effort to pinpoint the locations of people posting short messages on its service.


Physicians knowledge of childhood food allergies needs room for improvement

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

With an estimated four to six percent of children in the U.S. suffering from food allergies, a new study shows that pediatricians and family physicians aren't always confident they have the ability to diagnose or treat food ...


Scientists show that plants have measure of the shortest day

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is not only people who feel the effects of short winter days - new research by the University of Edinburgh and the University of Warwick has shed light on how plants calculate their own winter solstice. ...


Medical simulators can breathe, bleed, give birth -- and help students hone skills

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It was a high-stress situation for three nurses who had never delivered babies: A woman was 32 weeks pregnant, in pain and having contractions.


Scientists demonstrate multibeam, multi-functional lasers

Scientists demonstrate multibeam, multi-functional lasers

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

An international team of applied scientists from Harvard, Hamamatsu Photonics, and ETH Zürich have demonstrated compact, multibeam, and multi-wavelength lasers emitting in the invisible part of the light spectrum ...


Plan to breed lab monkeys splits Puerto Rican town (AP)

Plan to breed lab monkeys splits Puerto Rican town

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Puerto Rico has such a bad history with research monkeys running amok that some residents are stunned that its government has tentatively approved a plan to import and breed thousands of primates ...


Sleeping off childhood?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Are your 11- and 12-year-olds staying up later, then dozing off at school the next day? Parents and educators who notice poor sleeping patterns in their children should take note of new research from Tel Aviv University ― ...


Fungal footage fosters foresight into plant, animal disease

Meddling in mosquitoes' sex lives could help stop the spread of malaria, says study

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stopping male mosquitoes from sealing their sperm inside females with a 'mating plug' could prevent mosquitoes from reproducing, and offer a potential new way to combat malaria, say scientists ...


Birds Play an Important Role in the Spread of Lyme Disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The range of Lyme disease is spreading in North America and it appears that birds play a significant role by transporting the Lyme disease bacterium over long distances, a new study by the Yale School of ...


Our devices will spin denser webs of data in 2010s (AP)

Our devices will spin denser webs of data in 2010s

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(AP) -- Ten years ago, we would have been blown away by a cell phone with far more computing power and memory than the average PC had in 1999, along with a built-in camera and programs to manage every aspect ...



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