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Mobile sales to fall 0.7 percent this year: Gartner

Technology / Business

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Worldwide sales of mobile devices are expected to decline by nearly 0.7 percent this year and pick up again next year with nine percent growth, Gartner research group said Tuesday.


NASA Buys Additional Space Shuttle Reusable Solid Rocket Motors

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has purchased two reusable solid rocket motors from ATK Launch Systems Inc. of Brigham City, Utah, to provide a "launch on need" rescue capability for the final planned space shuttle mission, targeted ...


Antibody-guided drug shows encouraging activity in metastatic breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new antibody-drug compound shrank or halted the growth of metastatic breast tumors in almost half of a group of patients whose HER2-positive cancer had become resistant to standard therapies, according to early data from ...


UCSD Experts Calculate How Much Information Americans Consume

UCSD Experts Calculate How Much Information Americans Consume

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- U.S. households consumed approximately 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008, according to the "How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers," released today by the University of ...


Higher levels of protein hormone associated with lower risk of dementia, Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Persons with higher levels of leptin, a protein hormone produced by fat cells and involved in the regulation of appetite, may have an associated reduced incidence of Alzheimer disease and dementia, according to a study in ...


Theorists propose a new way to shine -- and a new kind of star

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

Dying, for stars, has just gotten more complicated. For some stellar objects, the final phase before or instead of collapsing into a black hole may be what a group of physicists is calling an electroweak star.


Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen

Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling the outer rim of the solar system ...


Couples who do the dishes together stay happier

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A new study published by The University of Western Ontario reveals that couples who share the responsibility for paid and unpaid work report higher average measures of happiness and life satisfaction than those in other family ...


Netherlands to slaughter more animals in Q fever epidemic

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Netherlands stepped up measures Wednesday against the world's biggest Q fever epidemic that has killed 10 humans, by ordering the slaughter of over 30,000 animals, a press release said.


Biden unveils federal broadband stimulus projects

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday announced the first $182 million in federal stimulus money for 18 projects to expand high-speed Internet networks in rural areas and other underserved communities.



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