News tagged with critical mass
Microsoft sees 'rebirth' with new Windows 8 system
Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 series -- featuring an upgraded cloud computing service -- marks a "rebirth" of its operating systems, chief executive Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday.
May 22, 2012 |
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Rocky planets could have been born as gas giants
When NASA announced the discovery of over 1,200 new potential planets spotted by the Kepler Space Telescope, almost a quarter of them were thought to be Super-Earths. Now, new research suggests that these ...
Sep 16, 2011 |
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Weighted ping-pong balls can fall endlessly through a granular medium (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- When a meteor impacts a planet or a moon, it always stops at a relatively shallow depth, even when impacting at high speeds. Until now, researchers have assumed that all objects impacting ...
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Has the Earth's sixth mass extinction already arrived?
With the steep decline in populations of many animal species, from frogs and fish to tigers, some scientists have warned that Earth is on the brink of a mass extinction like those that occurred only five times ...
Mar 02, 2011 |
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COPD could be a problem with autoimmunity
Moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may be an auto-immunity problem, according to researchers in Spain, who studied the presence of auto-antibodies in patients with COPD and compared them to levels ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 19, 2010 |
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Imbalanced diet and inadequate exercise may underlie asthma in children
Even children of a healthy weight who have an imbalanced metabolism due to poor diet or exercise may be at increased risk of asthma, according to new research, which challenges the widespread assumption that obesity itself ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 16, 2010 |
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Study: Teasing about weight can affect pre-teens profoundly
Schoolyard taunts of any type can potentially damage a child's sense of self-confidence. But a new study suggests that a particular kind of teasing - about weight - can have distinctive and significant effects on how pre-teens ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 07, 2010 |
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Love handles put the squeeze on lungs
There's more bad news for people who carry excess weight around their waists: Not only is abdominal obesity associated with diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and a host of other health problems collectively known ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 06, 2009 |
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