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Study: Drivers More Distracted by Cell Phones than by Passengers
Researchers have longtime warned about the effects of cell
phones on driving performance, whether...
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Astronomers Take First Photos Of Planets Outside Solar System
The first photos of planets outside our Solar System have been taken by two teams of astronomers...
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NASA's Hubble Telescope Brings New Exciting Results
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture images of a planet that orbits a star. Pictures of...
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Phoenix Mars Lander Declared Officially Dead; Mission Found Ice on Mars
Washington - After months of dust storms and severe cold, NASA's Phoenix Mars lander was declared...
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Heavy Rainfall Might Explain High Rates Of Autism
Children living in regions with higher levels of annual
rainfall may be more predisposed to...
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Khirbat en-Nahas Copper Mines Offer Evidence of Historical King Solomon
An entire branch of Archaeology, that of religious
archaeology, is dedicated to the confirmation...
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Archaeologists May Have Stumbled Upon King Solomon’s Legendary Mines
For decades, archaeologists and biblical interpreters have
been on a constant quest to find the...
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Scientists Obtain X-ray pictures Out Of Peeling Scotch Tape
Sticky tapes are always useful to have, but did you know
they do more than just … stick?...
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Internet genome scans are both popular and controversial in US
Washington - Some people who want their genome scanned are only worried about what their hair will...
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Old Experiment Concerning Life Origins Rekindled
Recently,
two hundred vials of chemicals that were used in a 1950s experiment
concerning the...
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Web Searches Improve Brain Activity
A team of
researchers at the University of California Los Angeles have recently revealed...
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EWG: Bottled Water Filled With Cancer-Linked Contaminants
When we buy bottled water, we genuinely believe that it is
safe to drink, but things are not like...
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Internet: A Stimulus That Keeps The Aging Brain Active
The Internet is undeniably part of our lives, but did you
know that its usefulness extends beyond...
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The Elderly Should Be Encouraged To Surf The Web
A study which is due to appear in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry shows that surfing...
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Three Chemists Win Nobel Prize For Bioluminescent Cells
The Nobel Prize for chemistry is shared this year by three
US-based scientists, one of them...
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Martin Chalfie, Roger Tsien - US scientists
Washington - Martin Chalfie, a professor of biological sciences at Columbia University in New York,...
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2008 Nobel Prize In Chemistry, Also With Three Winners
The Nobel Prize is a foundation that celebrates discoveries and excellence in a number of fields,...
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Ig Nobel Prize Winners Know How To Make Potato Chips Sound Fresher
Each year, around the time when the Nobel Prize recipients
are announced, the Ig Nobel Prize...
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HIV Origins Traced Around 1900, Much Earlier Than Believed
AIDS first came to public notice in 1981 when US doctors noted an unusual cluster of deaths
among...
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Seven Miles Separate Mars Rover Opportunity From Its Next Target
As it entered its fifth year of Mars exploration, NASA’s
Opportunity Mars continued to perform...
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New Theory: Pure Luck Propelled Dinosaurs As Rulers Of The Earth
Over 200 million years ago, the dinosaurs ruled the Earth. This
is an undeniable fact, however,...
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Virtual Telescope Takes Closer Look At Milky Way's Central Black Hole
Astronomers at the MIT Haystack Observatory, in
collaboration with a team of international...
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NYC Nuclear Plant Likely To Create An Earthquake Hazard
A recent tectonic study on the New York City – Philadelphia area revealed that there is much more...
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Update 2: Bigfoot Was Just A Hoax, A Rubber Costume
After igniting heavy debates, the discovery of the Bigfoot
has proved to be just a hoax, as many...
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Scentists Are Closer Than Ever To Invisibility
The scientists at the University of California, Berkeley are
extremely close to a major scientific...
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Invisibility Is No Longer A Fairy Tale
Many of you have probably read The Invisible Man written by H.G. Wells more than one hundred years...
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NASA’s Phoenix Lander Carries On With Martian Soil Analysis
The past week has been very intense for NASA scientists, as
they have been working on...
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Update 1: Bending Light Or How To Become The Invisible Man
We’ve all read or seen fiction stories about the invisible
man, usually the result of an...
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Study: Girls Match Boys in No Child Left Behind Math Tests
A study by five women researchers has concluded that nowadays girls are as good as boys in No Child...
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Scientists Solve Mystery Behind Aurora Borealis Spectacle Of Light
The enigmatic aurora borealis has kept
scientists on a constant quest to understand the...
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World
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US In Year-Long Recession, Top Economic Arbiter Declares
Washington - The United States has been in a recession since December 2007, the country's official...
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Three Researchers Win Nobel Prize For Bioluminescent Cells
The Nobel Prize for chemistry is shared this year by three
US-based scientists, one of them...
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Samba for Obama echoes fundraising rhythm
San Francisco - The wine was flowing, the band was blaring, and on the dance floor a Brazilian lady...
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The Bigfoot Hunters Lost Their Credit?
They who called themselves "Bigfoot hunters"
claimed they had found the dead body of the...
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Authorities Investigate the Latest Attacks on California Researchers
The police and federal authorities are investigating two
bombings that targeted two scientists at...
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Girls Are Just As Good As Boys At Math, Study Says
Is there a real difference between the intellectual abilities
of girls and boys at Math? For many...
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Michael Savage Continues Autism Discussion, Maintaining His Point of View
When you have the opportunity to inform people on certain
subjects, the worst thing to do is to...
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F.B.I. Arrests Hundreds in Child Prostitution Raids
The F.B.I. led a five day operation meant to discover child
prostitution networks and managed to...
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California: UC’s Sports Training Center on Hold
It appears that the UC-Berkeley's student athlete high
performance center will be built, after...
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MySpace Suicide Case in Federal Court
A Missouri woman indicted in a MySpace hoax which led to a 13-year-old girl's suicide is scheduled...
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American Wine Pioneer Died At Age 94
The man responsable for popularizing the concept of quality American wine died Friday at the age of...
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Coyote Dragged 2-Year-Old Girl From Yard
A coyote
grabbed a 2-year-old girl by the head and dragged her from the yard of her home
in...
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Hispanics are US’ Largest, Fastest-Growing Minority
According to a survey carried out by Census Bureau, the nation's largest and fastest-growing...
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No Sign of the Killer Shark in San Diego Area
The search for the presumed white shark that killed a swimmer who was training in the ocean for the...
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Swimmer Killed by Shark in Ocean off California
A swimmer who was training in the ocean off San Diego County was killed by a shark on Friday.The...
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Minor Quakes Jog Reno, Nevada Causing No Injuries
A series of minor earthquakes hit Reno
city, Nevada in northern California on Thursday afternoon...
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Students Protest against Education Cuts
Around 2,000 upset students demonstrated around the State
Capitol Monday morning in Sacramento,...
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Two Expensive Cholesterol Drugs May Be Ineffective
U.S. spent $1.5 billion in 2006 on Vytorin, a cholesterol
drug that actually does not work better...
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UC Hired New President Mark Yudof for $828,000 a Year
University of Texas chancellor, Mark G. Yudof, was appointed as University of California’s new...
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Deputy’s Car Hits Group of Cyclists, 2 Dead, 1 Seriously Injured
A deputy sheriff on patrol in Cupertino, California,
Sunday crossed the double-yellow line on...
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Virginia Tech Student Dead, 1 Hospitalized in Campus Crash
A Virginia Tech student was killed and another severely injured
Saturday night when a motorist...
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Berkeley V. The Marines: Out With The ‘Unwelcome Intruders’
What is the latest one-on-one
combat on the U.S. agenda this week? Berkeley v. the Marines of...
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Photos of Californian Teen Swimmers Found on Gay Porn Sites
Numerous photos of teen water polo players from several South Californian high schools were posted...
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Sarkozy and Bush Wish Harmonious Political Relations
President Nicolas Sarkozy left France
on Monday for a short visit in United
States, which will...
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People
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Michael Crichton, Author of Jurassic Park, Dies of Cancer at 66
Michael Crichton, aged 66, died in Los Angeles on Tuesday. According to the release issued by his...
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Former First Lady Hospitalized After Suffering Fall Fractures
Following a fall at her home last week, former first lady
Nancy Reagan was admitted to a local...
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Travis Barker and DJ AM Severely Injured, While Other Four Dead In Plane Crash
Former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ Adam
Michael Goldstein, also known as DJ...
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Beverly Hills 90210 Returns with Shannen Doherty and New Adventures
Famous TV show “Beverly Hills, 90210” is
coming back to its older fans. And the surprise is that...
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Dr. Adams Abruptly Interrupts "Larry King Live"
The Beverly Hills plastic surgeon that operated on rapper Kanye West’s mother one day before...
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Grieving Kanye West Cancels Gig for Victoria's Secret
Rapper Kanye West, who is in mourning after the sudden death of his mother Donda West, has...
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Donda West's Doctor Had A Troubled Medical Past
Plastic surgeon Jan Adams, who operated on musician Kanye West’s mother one day before she...
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News Legend, Hal Fishman Left An Irreplaceable Anchor Position
The 75 year news legend, Hal Fishman passed away on Tuesday,
3 a.m., in less than a week after...
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Journalist David Halbertsam Died in Car Crash at 73
American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, who gained widespread fame through his early...
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Technology
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TV, Our Children’s Parent?
The U.S. National Institutes of Health, Yale University and the California Pacific Medical Center...
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Online Time Helps Teens Develop Social and Technical Skills
While adults don’t seem to appreciate the time teens spend
online, a recent study by the MacArthur...
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CNN’s Hologram Technology under the Spotlight
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Lead Companies Take A Stand Against Censorship & Privacy Violation
Lead tech and communications companies, human rights
organizations, investors and academics united...
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The Elderly Should Be Encouraged to Surf the Web
A study which is due to appear in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry shows that surfing...
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The Value of 243,112,609 - 1 in Cash
Mathematics is regarded as a pure science, working with pure
concepts, concepts that outside...
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Copyright LawsuitI Against Veoh Dismissed
A lawsuit, similar to the ones filed by copyright holders
against YouTube, MySpace, and others,...
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Medpedia, The Online Collaborative Project On Health
Almost everyone who uses the Internet surely knows about
Wikipedia, the largest online...
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HP Discovers Fourth Passive Circuit Element: the Memristor
HP has made a breakthrough discovery which added a fourth passive component type after resistors,...
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Microsoft, Intel Team Up For Parallel Computing Research Support
Microsoft and Intel teamed up to
create two Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers (UPCRC)...
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Microsoft to Open Research Center near MIT
Microsoft Corporation announced the opening of a sixth research lab in Cambridge, Mass. The new...
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Bionic Contact Lens – Everything Is Possible
Engineers at the University of Washington transformed a fairy-tale concept into real thing when...
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After Gates, Chief of Microsoft’s Office Business to Retire
The latest shake-up inside Microsoft involve Jeff Raikes,
the head of the company’s $16 billion...
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A New Discovery May Change The Future Of Tech
The IBM researchers published in the Thursday
edition of the journal Optics Express a significant...
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They Wanted to Illegally Change Grades and Face 20 Years in Prison
Two men from California have wanted to illegally change
their grades, but now they face up to 20...
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Google and IBM Team Up For Cloud Computing For Universities
Following a December 2006 meeting at Google’s Mountain View
headquarters, Eric Schmidt and IBM’s...
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Sony to Present Cell Computing Board at SIGGRAPH 2007
The raw power of the Cell CPU, developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba for PS3, will apparently debut...
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Health
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Media Exposure Is Bad For Kids’ Health, Study Says
Parents, have you ever wondered how exposure to media
sources impacts the physical health of your...
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Lack of Exercise in Depressed Cardiac Patients Worsens Outcomes
If you suffer from depression, you need to look for medical
help right away, as depression has...
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CT Scans Unreliable as Heart Test
Wednesday, the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that even though Medicare, the United...
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Inactivity in Depressed Heart Patients Increases Cardiac Risk
Depression is one of the issues today’s world faces and tries
to overcome. Scientists have shown...
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Antigenics Vaccine for Brain Cancer Shows Promising Results
Biotechnology company Antigenics Inc
announced on Monday that its experimental cancer treatment...
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Trial Shows Antigenics’ Oncophage Extends Survival in Cancer Patients
A small study of patients with brain cancer showed that Antigenics
Inc’s Oncophage vaccine helped...
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Girl, 14, Miraculously Survives Nearly 4 Months without Heart
As incredible as it may sound, an American
teenage girl has survived for nearly four months...
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Ginkgo Biloba Does Not Prevent Alzheimer’s, Study Shows
Millions of people take the herbal
supplement, hoping that it will cut their risk of developing...
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Assisted Reproductive Technology May Raise Risk For Birth Defects
Babies conceived with assisted reproductive technology (ART)
may be two to four times more likely...
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California Economy Loses $28 Billion Annually because of Air Pollution
California's
economy loses about $28 billion annually in health-related counts because of
the...
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