The Pew Research Center in Washington says Americans believe their fellow Americans have become fat -- but not themselves.

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Apr 13, 2006 3.4 / 5 (14) 0

“The one sentence statement of general relativity is that ‘gravity is the curvature of spacetime,’” explains Dr. Sean Carroll, assistant professor of physics at the University of Chicago. “Really, the differences ...

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Apr 13, 2006 3.5 / 5 (85) 0

An image made of about 300 million pixels is being released by ESO, based on more than 64 hours of observations with the Wide-Field Camera on the 2.2m telescope at La Silla (Chile). The image covers an 'empty' ...

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Apr 13, 2006 3.5 / 5 (6) 0

Exercising to lose weight? Think of another reason or the odds are you won't be exercising for long, according to a University of Michigan study of baby boomer women.

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Apr 13, 2006 3.7 / 5 (13) 0

A University of Michigan research team will receive a combined total of $5 million over the next five years to support an interdisciplinary research project on negative refraction—or bending lightwaves downward.

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Apr 13, 2006 4.8 / 5 (16) 0

While Barry Bonds pursues baseball's home run record, a cloud of steroid accusations has settled over the national pastime, says a Purdue University sports history expert.

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Apr 13, 2006 1.3 / 5 (3) 0

Most people have cracked their knuckles more often than they're willing to admit. Against the steering wheel of the car. On the arm of an office chair, or right on the desk. People crack their knuckles mostly ...

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Apr 13, 2006 4.2 / 5 (64) 0

People usually think of the skull as packaging for the brain and researchers usually investigate them separately, but a team of researchers now thinks that developmentally and evolutionarily that the two are incontrovertibly ...

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Apr 13, 2006 3.9 / 5 (7) 0

Researchers today released the first Mars images from two of the three science cameras on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Images taken by the orbiter's Context Camera and Mars Color Imager during the first ...

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Apr 13, 2006 4.2 / 5 (13) 0

NASA's Mars rover Spirit has reached a safe site for the Martian winter, while its twin, Opportunity, is making fast progress toward a destination of its own.

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Apr 13, 2006 4.9 / 5 (14) 0

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed a small-footprint, wafer-level processed stack package (WSP) of high density memory chips using 'through silicon via' (TSV) interconnection technology. WSP actually ...

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Apr 13, 2006 4.3 / 5 (6) 0

Chemists at the University of California, Riverside have created in the laboratory a type of molecules thought to exist only in interstellar space, which may have valuable applications in chemical industry.

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Apr 13, 2006 4.7 / 5 (14) 0

As is now reported in Science, a team of scientists from the Netherlands (FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics) and Germany (Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching and the Universities of Bie ...

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Apr 13, 2006 3.9 / 5 (12) 0

A law introduced in Britain last week to protect the rights of workers laid off by offshoring and outsourcing could not only potentially leave Indian business process outsourcing (BPO) service providers with huge liabilities ...

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Apr 13, 2006 4.5 / 5 (4) 0

Wildlife Conservation Society scientists in New York say the most cost-effective way to control rats on the Fiji Islands is to protect standing forests.

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Apr 13, 2006 4.8 / 5 (4) 0