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Climate documents spark rich vs. poor clash (AP)

Climate documents spark rich vs. poor clash

Space & Earth / Environment

created 4 hours ago | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says she will take commonsense steps to regulate carbon emissions to protect the health of Americans.


WHO: Smoking kills 5 million every year

Medicine & Health / Health

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(AP) -- Tobacco use kills at least 5 million people every year, a figure that could rise if countries don't take stronger measures to combat smoking, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.


Rodent smoke screen

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 21 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rats passively exposed to tobacco smoke become dependent on nicotine, according to a new study by Dr. Adrie Bruijnzeel and colleagues from the University of Florida in the US. Their findings of how rats' brains respond to ...


Study shows link between working memory and reactive parenting

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 22 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Any parent knows that sometimes maintaining your cool with misbehaving children is a challenge. We all have times when we get frustrated or angry and lash out at someone without thinking. A new study by psychologists at ...


Precision breeding creates super potato

Precision breeding creates super potato

Biology / Biotechnology

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

The skin is light brown, the meat luscious and yellow: from the outside alone, this new potato looks like any other. But on the inside, it is different. Its cells produce pure amylopectin, a starch used in ...


Getting a 'Head Start' on obesity prevention

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Almost 1 million preschool children from low-income families are enrolled in Head Start, a national program for young children that readies them for school. While the program provides them with educational and social skill ...


Coroner: Self-help course led to woman's suicide (AP)

Coroner: Self-help course led to woman's suicide

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- An Australian coroner said Tuesday that participation in an intense self-help course led a woman to suffer a psychotic breakdown before she stripped naked and leaped to her death from an office window ...


In search of the root causes of the 2008 crisis: New York Fed to hear new theory on financial meltdown

Other Sciences / Economics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Anjan Thakor, finance professor at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, will present a new theory on the causes of the financial crisis to a meeting of the New York Federal Reserve ...


Yahoo launches online consumer privacy tool

Technology / Internet

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Yahoo wants its users to know what it knows about them.


Caffeine doesn't reverse the negative cognitive impact of alcohol, study shows

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

People who drink may want to know that coffee won't sober them up, according to new laboratory research. Instead, a cup of coffee may make it harder for people to realize they're drunk.



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