News tagged with public places

China renews push to ban smoking starting May 1

(AP) -- Chinese health authorities are renewing a push to ban smoking in indoor public places, adding more venues like hotels and restaurants as of May 1, though still excluding many workplaces.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Geneva's smoking ban returns after one-year break

A ban on smoking in public places will return to Switzerland's Geneva canton after being approved in a referendum Sunday, a year after a court ended a first bid to prohibit lighting up.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Smokers putting their loved ones at risk of heart attacks

Researchers at University College London and St George's, University of London measured recent exposure to tobacco smoke in non-smoking middle-aged men taking part in the British Regional Heart Study by measuring the levels ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Windows 8 to dominate Taiwan computer show

Microsoft's much-anticipated Windows 8 operating system is set to take pride of place as tens of thousands of people head to Asia's leading IT fair opening in Taiwan on Tuesday.

Technology / Software

created 15 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stay or go? Some towns are eyeing retreat from sea

(AP) — Years of ferocious storms have threatened to gnaw away the western tip of a popular beachfront park a two hours drive north of Los Angeles. Instead of building a 500-foot (150 meter)-long wooden defense next to ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created 15 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Keeping up with embryogenesis: New microscope lets users track individual cells as they move, divide

(Medical Xpress) -- The transformation of a fertilized egg into a functioning animal requires thousands of cell divisions and intricate rearrangements of those cells. That process is captured with unprecedented ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 5 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Risks of boomerangs a reality in world of cyberwar

(AP) — The Obama administration is warning American businesses about an unusually potent computer virus that infected Iran's oil industry even as suspicions persist that the United States is responsible ...

Technology / Internet

created Jun 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Growing up, 'geeking out'

Mizuko "Mimi" Ito spends a lot of time "geeking out" at her computer. She plays video games, trolls the Internet, chats, and visits social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter for hours on end.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New release of Web-based resource resolves confusion over plant names

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet -- but it might confound scientists interested in understanding the chemical components of its fragrance or discovering where its ancestors grew in the wild.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Medicare auction will face severe difficulties, research shows

Medicare's new method for buying medical supplies and equipment -- everything from wheelchairs and hospital beds to insulin shots and oxygen tanks -- is doomed to face severe difficulties, according to a new ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Scientists map and sequence genome of switchgrass relative foxtail millet

A newly published genetic sequence and map of foxtail millet, a close relative of switchgrass and an important food crop in Asia, is giving scientists working to increase biofuel and crop yields a powerful new tool.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Hiding true self at work can result in less job satisfaction, greater turnover

Hiding your true social identity -- race and ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation or a disability -- at work can result in decreased job satisfaction and increased turnover, according to a new study from Rice ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Highway through Amazon worsens effects of climate change, provides mixed economic gains

Paving a highway across South America is providing lessons on the impact of road construction elsewhere.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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