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Exercise makes cigarettes less attractive to smokers

Exercise makes cigarettes less attractive to smokers

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Exercise can help smokers quit because it makes cigarettes less attractive. A new study from the University of Exeter shows for the first time that exercise can lessen the power of cigarettes ...


No sweat: Shuttle's exercise gear on the fritz

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Space junk from a Soviet satellite no longer poses a threat to Discovery shuttle, but astronauts face a vexing new problem: the spacecraft's exercise equipment is on the fritz, NASA said Monday.





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Marketing Professor Studying Adolescents' Sources of Happiness

Marketing Professor Studying Adolescents' Sources of Happiness

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lan Nguyen Chaplin, an assistant professor in the Eller College of Management, says children and teenagers, in finding happiness, do not always place material things before personal relationships.


Colliding auroras produce an explosion of light

Colliding auroras produce an explosion of light

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A network of cameras deployed around the Arctic in support of NASA's THEMIS mission has made a startling discovery about the Northern Lights. Sometimes, vast curtains of aurora borealis collide, ...


Santa should get off his sleigh and walk, says public health doctor

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Santa should share Rudolf's snack of carrots and celery sticks rather than brandy and mince pies and swap his reindeer for a bike or walk, says a public health expert in the Christmas issue published in BMJ today.


MIT's big wheel in Copenhagen

Biking 2.0: MIT's big wheel in Copenhagen (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 6

Yesterday, Dec. 15, at the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change, MIT researchers debuted the Copenhagen Wheel -- a revolutionary new bicycle wheel that not only boosts power, but can keep track of friends, ...


Device connected to tongue designed to help blind perceive images

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

An experimental device that uses the tongue instead of the eyes to "see" could be on the market next year, and a blind Fresno, Calif., teen hopes to be among the first to take one home.


Scientists Investigate Cause of 'Singing Dunes'

Scientists Investigate Cause of 'Singing Dunes'

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- In more than 30 locations around the world, the phenomenon of singing sand dunes has intrigued explorers, tourists, and scientists. When an avalanche occurs or even when the sand is pushed ...


World's mayors tackle climate change on their own (AP)

World's mayors tackle climate change on their own

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- It isn't easy getting Italy's city dwellers out of their Fiats, off their Vespa scooters and onto bicycles to ride to work, "like here in Copenhagen," says an Italian environmental official.


Surgery on beating heart thanks to robotic helping hand

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

If you've been waiting for the day to arrive when computers actually start performing surgery, that moment might soon be upon us. A French team has developed a computerized 3D model that allows surgeons to use robotics to ...


Staying Power: Senate Hearing Focuses On Energy Storage

Staying Power: Senate Hearing Focuses On Energy Storage

Technology / Energy

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 6

Thursday's Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing featured testimony from experts about the power industry's need to develop systems capable of storing large amounts of electricity if the nation's ...


Saturn's Mysterious Hexagon Emerges from Winter Darkness

Saturn's Mysterious Hexagon Emerges from Winter Darkness

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 21

(PhysOrg.com) -- After waiting years for the sun to illuminate Saturn's north pole again, cameras aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft have captured the most detailed images yet of the intriguing hexagon shape ...



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