Archive: 12/12/2008
Once upon a time, scales were displayed in parlors, not hidden in bathrooms
Stepping onto a scale after a calorie-filled holiday season isn't an activity many 21st-century Americans relish.
Dec 12, 2008 |
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Black & Decker Unveils Their New Thermal Leak Detector
(PhysOrg.com) -- Now you can find and plug up those leaks around your home once and for all. Black & Decker is offering an innovative leak detector, in about a month and will be price at around $39.99.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 12, 2008 |
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'Light within a light' offers CFL efficiency with incandescent bulb shape
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the coming weeks, General Electric will start selling a new "ship in a bottle" lightbulb - a fluorescent spiral bulb trapped inside a traditional incandescent-shaped bulb.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Dec 12, 2008 |
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Cost of hatchling turtles' dash for freedom
A newly hatched sea turtle's first swim is the most critical of its life. Having run the gauntlet of air and land predators to make it to the sea, the tiny voyager must also evade hungry fish patrolling the ...
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Dec 12, 2008 |
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Charting HIV's rapidly changing journey in the body
HIV is so deadly largely because it evolves so rapidly. With a single virus as the origin of an infection, most patients will quickly come to harbor thousands of different versions of HIV, all a little bit different and all ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 12, 2008 |
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Whispering bats are 100 times louder than previously thought
Annemarie Surlykke from the University of Southern Denmark is fascinated by echolocation. She really wants to know how it works. Surlykke equates the ultrasound cries that bats use for echolocation with the beam of light ...
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Dec 12, 2008 |
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Inexperienced prostitutes most at risk of sexual infections
Less experienced prostitutes are more likely to have sexually transmitted infections (STIs). A study of more than a thousand female sex workers in Cambodia, reported in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases, has sh ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 12, 2008 |
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Scientist Explains Why Jupiter's Moon Europa Could Have Energetic Liquid Oceans
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists used to think that Jupiter and its moons - and most other bodies orbiting far from the Sun - were cold, icy, and probably barren. When the Voyager spacecraft flew by in the late ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 12, 2008 |
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