A Swedish study finds that people who use snuff are more likely to be overweight and to have high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

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Aug 25, 2006 3.2 / 5 (6) 0

Milwaukee, sometimes called "The Nation's Watering Hole," has been named the hardest-drinking city in America in a new Forbes.com ranking.

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Aug 25, 2006 2.1 / 5 (29) 0

A new laser surgery is being used to save the lives of identical twins suffering from twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, or TTTS.

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Aug 25, 2006 4 / 5 (5) 0

Officials in Ecuador are worried about the recent discovery of a foreign iguana and turtle on the Galapagos Islands.

Space & Earth - Environment

Aug 25, 2006 5 / 5 (2) 0

A new analysis of 50 years of changes in freshwater inputs to the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans may shed light on what’s behind the recently observed increase in freshwater in the North Atlantic. University ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Aug 25, 2006 4.4 / 5 (27) 0

An upgrade to the Cray XT3 supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the most powerful supercomputer available for general scientific research in the United States, has increased the system's computing ...

Electronics - Hardware

Aug 25, 2006 2.5 / 5 (35) 0

Good news for mobile TV users! Up to now, the Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) standard was restricted to just four TV channels in Germany. Soon, however, avid viewers could in theory be spoiled for choice with as many ...

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Aug 25, 2006 1.3 / 5 (3) 0

Columbia research scientist Latha Venkataraman has demonstrated that in creating single-molecule electronic devices, flatter molecules conduct electricity better. That principle has long been suspected, but ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Aug 25, 2006 4.2 / 5 (30) 0

On Sunday, August 27th, Mars will be far from Earth, dim and unremarkable. In short, a total bore. That's news? It is when a widely-read email claims just the opposite.

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Aug 25, 2006 4.6 / 5 (9) 0

Recently, scientists announced that they had found a way to establish colonies of human embryonic stem cells without destroying a human embryo. University of Missouri-Columbia researcher Elmer Price, who works with adult stem c ...

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Aug 25, 2006 2.8 / 5 (5) 0

Neandertals were much more like modern humans than had been previously thought, according to a re-examination of finds from one of the most famous palaeolithic sites in Europe by Bristol University archaeologist, ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Aug 25, 2006 4.7 / 5 (35) 0

The Planning Minister, Rob Hulls, today gave the green light to building Australia's most powerful wind farm at Mt Gellibrand, near Colac, with the capacity to power 133,450 homes a year.

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Aug 25, 2006 2.2 / 5 (35) 0

If humans are anything like rats, scientists at Tufts University in Boston may be on the road to discovering the fountain of youth for the human brain.

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Aug 25, 2006 4 / 5 (25) 0

New research into climate change in the Western Himalaya and the surrounding Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains could explain why many glaciers there are growing and not melting.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Aug 25, 2006 3.4 / 5 (5) 0

Bisphenol A, a common industrial chemical claimed to speed the growth of human breast and ovarian cancers, retains its carcinogenic properties even after being modified by body processes, report Indiana University and University ...

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Aug 25, 2006 4.7 / 5 (6) 0