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Driver misjudgment and landscape variations cause collisions at stop sign intersections
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Stop signs are supposed to be traffic safety tools, but how effective are they? According to one Ryerson University researcher, intersections with stop signs can be some of the deadliest places ...
Solar-powered safety: Road signs blink their warnings
Jun 19, 2009 |
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Across New Jersey, more towns are using solar-powered warning signs, capitalizing on the technology's effectiveness to inform the public, warn motorists of danger and save energy.
I quit, we quit -- what works better for smokers?
Jan 22, 2009 |
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A study from the University of Bath has found that smokers are twice as likely to kick the habit if they use a support group rather than trying to give up alone.
Stop & Shop Supermarket Chain Goes Hi-Tech
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 29, 2008 |
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Your next trip to Stop & Shop may be little more than just placing items into your wagon and paying for them at the cashier's checkout counter.
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Unique 'Climate One Stop' Web Site Unveiled in Copenhagen
Dec 15, 2009 |
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There's a storm brewing -- a storm of information, that is, in climate and environmental research. People are wading through the turbulence, trying to make sense of it all.
Facebook, MySpace ban New York sex offenders
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Facebook and MySpace have closed the accounts of 3,533 convicted sex offenders in New York state under a law combating online predators, officials said Tuesday.
Why can't some people give up cocaine?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Drug dependency is a recurrent but treatable kind of addiction. However, not all people who are drug dependent progress in the same way once they stop taking drugs. A new study shows that, in the case of cocaine, a high score ...
AIDS research reveals a lack of family-planning programs in Uganda
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 23, 2009 |
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University of Alberta graduate student Jennifer Heys wants to make her message clear: there needs to be more education in Ugandan communities about contraception.
Indian engineer invents device to stop rampaging elephants
Nov 23, 2009 |
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An Indian inventor has created a device to stop rampaging elephants in their tracks, amid concern about human injuries and deaths when they run amok, his company said Monday.
Quarter of a million children in England at risk of skin cancer from sunbeds
Nov 12, 2009 |
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An estimated quarter of a million 11-17 year olds in England are being put at increased risk of developing malignant melanoma by using sunbeds, warn researchers in a letter to this week's BMJ.
1930s drug slows tumor growth
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 06, 2009 |
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Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects. A glaucoma treatment causes luscious eyelashes. A blood pressure drug also aids those with a rare genetic disease. The newest surprise discovered by researchers at the Johns ...
Grinch likely depressed, suffers from lack of love, joy, expert says (w/ Video)
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Being irritable, grumpy and seeking social isolation are also hallmarks of depression, and could explain the Grinch's disdain for the Who -- the tall and the small -- his mistreatment of his dog Max and, ...
Large Hadron Collider preparing 2010 new science restart
Dec 18, 2009 |
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At its 153rd session today, the CERN Council heard that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ended its first full period of operation in style on Wednesday 16 December. Collisions at 2.36TeV recorded since last ...
Student ordered to destroy downloaded music files
Dec 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A college student found guilty of copyright infringement has to destroy files he illegally downloaded years ago.
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