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Website maps what Americans look for in love

In the cosmopolitan US capital, singles are seeking everything from "Morocco" to "Ethiopia", "Kazakhstan" and "steppes", to "Ascot" and "Bourgogne."

Technology / Internet

created Apr 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Loneliness can be contagious

Loneliness, like a bad cold, can spread among groups of people, research at the University of Chicago, the University of California-San Diego and Harvard shows.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 4




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Google's Punchd wants to replace loyalty cards with an app

Over the years, Google has changed the way we search online and the way many businesses advertise online. With Android, the company has built the most popular smartphone operating system in the world. And now the tech giant ...

Technology / Software

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Expanded study will track adolescent behavior on Facebook

A large-scale, long-term UT Dallas study focusing on adolescent friendships and electronic communication is expanding to include Facebook posts.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook insiders stay pals

All eyes are on Facebook Inc., which is on the verge of a $100-billion initial public stock offering.

Technology / Business

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

GOES satellite movie tracked tornadic Texas trouble

A powerful weather system moved through eastern Texas and dropped at least 15 tornadoes in the Dallas suburbs. NASA created an animation of data from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite that shows the frontal system moving through the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

With you in the room, bacteria counts spike

A person's mere presence in a room can add 37 million bacteria to the air every hour -- material largely left behind by previous occupants and stirred up from the floor -- according to new research by Yale University engineers.

Biology / Other

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Elusive long-fingered frog found after 62 years

Herpetologists from the California Academy of Sciences and University of Texas at El Paso discovered a single specimen of the Bururi long-fingered frog (Cardioglossa cyaneospila) during a research expedition to Bur ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Full Titanic site mapped for 1st time

Researchers have pieced together what's believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-by-5-mile Titanic debris field and hope it will provide new clues about what exactly happened the night 100 ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Brucellosis pathogen persists in Botswana buffalo

The term "bush meat" conjures up images of exotic animals hunted by men in traditional dress using handmade weapons. But in reality, bush meat is a lot closer to our North American venison, quail, and pheasant ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study extends the 'ecology of fear' to fear of parasites

(PhysOrg.com) -- Here’s a riddle: What’s the difference between a tick and a lion? The answer used to be that a tick is a parasite and the lion is a predator. But now those definitions don’t ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

John Glenn reunites with 50-year-old Mercury team

(AP) -- John Glenn joined the proud, surviving veterans of NASA's Project Mercury on Saturday in celebrating the 50th anniversary of his historic orbital flight.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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