Many Florida tourists come for the perfect weather but do not know what to do in the perfect storm, finds a new University of Florida study of visiting vacationers and their preparedness for a hurricane strike.
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Jul 21, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- About now, and possibly for the next few weeks only, is the time to see the impressive adult stag beetles in flight in the south of England.
Ecology
Jul 21, 2010
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Lost in the hubbub surrounding the iPad and new iPhone are Apple's other products -- its desktop and laptop computers.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 21, 2010
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A climate-change study at Sandia National Laboratories that models the near-term effects of declining rainfall in each of the 48 U.S. continental states makes clear the economic toll that could occur unless an appropriate ...
Environment
Jul 21, 2010
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The number of people using Facebook hit the 500 million mark on Wednesday, meaning one in every 14 people on the planet has now signed up to the online social-networking service.
Internet
Jul 21, 2010
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Egyptian experts have begun to explore the depths of Lake Qarun south of Cairo using remote sensing radars in search of sunken artefacts, antiquities officials told AFP on Wednesday.
Archaeology
Jul 21, 2010
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Tohoku University and Sony researchers have succeeded in developing a blue-violet ultrafast pulsed semiconductor laser with dramatically improved peak laser beam output levels that are 100 times that of the world's current ...
General Physics
Jul 21, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- News accounts of organic agriculture and organic food are more likely to be positive than negative and inaccurately claim organic food is safer, according to Kansas State University's Doug Powell.
Other
Jul 21, 2010
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A new form of paper with the built-in ability to fight disease-causing bacteria could have applications that range from anti-bacterial bandages to food packaging that keeps food fresher longer to shoes that ward off foot ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 21, 2010
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Government scientists are reporting that eight of the most commonly used oil dispersants used to fight oil spills, such as the massive episode in the Gulf of Mexico, appear unlikely to act as endocrine disruptors — hormone-like ...
Environment
Jul 21, 2010
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