The Magical Mystery Tour
Cassini, the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn, has revealed intricate details of the gas giant planet and its moons -- but many mysteries remain.
May 05, 2010
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High-pressure jobs boost young women's heart disease risk
High pressure jobs boost young women's risk of heart disease, finds a large study of female nurses published today in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
May 05, 2010
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Fatal assaults 30 times higher among poor Scots than among most affluent
Fatal assaults among the most disadvantaged in Scotland are more than 30 times as high as they are among the most affluent sectors of society, reveals research published today in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community He ...
May 05, 2010
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Media wants affidavit in iPhone raid unsealed
(AP) -- The Associated Press and other news organizations asked a judge Wednesday to unseal the search warrant affidavit used to raid the home of a blogger who posted pictures and details of an iPhone prototype.
May 05, 2010
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Seagate Introduces Flexible External Hard Drives
Seagate today introduced the next evolution of the company's FreeAgent external hard drives—its new GoFlex storage solutions. This new family of external drives and accessories introduces a new level of ...
May 05, 2010
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Firms quickly realize PR possibilities of social media
Richard Pesce loved his Clif Bars. Then the company sent him an expired box of the energy snacks. He e-mailed complaints. He phoned. No luck.
May 05, 2010
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SwRI researchers design and build gas bearing test rig
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Southwest Research Institute have designed and built a 60,000 rpm gas bearing test rig to test the rotordynamic stability of gas bearings.
May 05, 2010
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23-year-old wins $1M playing baseball video game
(AP) -- Shh, don't tell your kids. Wade McGilberry just won a million dollars playing a video game.
May 05, 2010
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Study finds everolimus-eluting stent safer, more effective than paclitaxel-eluting stent
Results from the SPIRIT IV clinical trial, which were first presented at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2009 scientific symposium, were published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
May 05, 2010
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Breaking Up Can Be Hard
Laura Townsend '10 eases a soggy lump of concrete out from what looks like a gigantic pizza oven. "Come on, whoa! -- This bad boy is going to fall apart," she says as she inspects the pebbly mass and then ...
May 05, 2010
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How Capt. Kirk Changed the World
"Standard orbit, Mr. Sulu." Captain Kirk barks out the order with such confidence. He knows the USS Enterprise can slip in and out of planetary orbits with ease. But it's only easy in the realm of science ...
May 05, 2010
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Linnaeus 2.0: First E-publication of new plant species
Four new Neotropical plant species in the hyperdiverse genus Solanum (Solanaceae), which includes plants as diverse as the deadly nightshade as well as the more palatable tomato have been published in the open access online ...
May 05, 2010
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Most Americans live surprisingly close to their mothers: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- Most Americans live within 25 miles of their mothers, according to a report issued by the University of Michigan Retirement Research Center.
May 05, 2010
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With pay-by-phone startup, Aaron Greenspan rebounds from Facebook suit
The last time the tech world heard from Aaron Greenspan, he was settling a trademark lawsuit in which he charged that he, not his Harvard classmate Mark Zuckerberg, had come up with the idea for an online social networking ...
May 05, 2010
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Researchers unearth the truth about volcanic ash
(PhysOrg.com) -- The dispersal of large ash plumes from the Eyjafjallajökull eruption in Iceland has generated widespread interest due largely to the impact on air transport and reports of ash-fall throughout ...
May 05, 2010
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