News tagged with traffic disruptions

Disruptive behaviour disorders in male teenagers associated with increased risk of road crashes

Disruptive behaviour disorders in male teenagers, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, and oppositional defiant disorder are associated with about a one-third increase in the risk of being seriously ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Be on the lookout for new police tool, aka Twitter

(AP) -- When Milwaukee police wanted to get word of a murder out quickly, they did it in 113 characters on Twitter.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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New York is vying to become global high-tech hub

(AP) -- Just as a trench dug in the 1800s created a shortcut to the nation's interior and helped make New York a global trading hub, the city is now hoping for another "Erie Canal moment" with a high-tech research complex ...

Technology / Business

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Electronic congestion in the microchips of the future

(Phys.org) -- Electrons within some materials can stick together like cars on a traffic jam. Swiss researchers studying promising materials for the future of electronics have been able to highlight this phenomenon

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Space weather expert has ominous forecast

A stream of highly charged particles from the sun is headed straight toward Earth, threatening to plunge cities around the world into darkness and bring the global economy screeching to a halt.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 7

N. Korea jamming affects flights: Seoul official

Electronic jamming signals from North Korea have affected scores of civilian flights in and out of South Korea, a Seoul official said Wednesday, amid rising tensions with Pyongyang.

Technology / Internet

created May 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A 100-gigbit highway for science

Climate researchers are producing some of the fastest growing datasets in science. Five years ago, the amount of information generated for the Nobel Prize-winning United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ...

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Apple's squeeze hits phone companies, competitors

(AP) -- Apple is set to report another record quarterly profit on Tuesday, continuing the relentless string of results that's made it the world's most valuable company. Those profits don't come out of thin air: A range of ...

Technology / Business

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Bridges get a quick check-up with new imaging technique

Swiss engineers have developed a new imaging technique that lets them see the insides of massive concrete bridges. Much like a sonogram, this technique provides quick, easy-to-interpret images, so that the ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Al-Qaeda sites go silent in possible cyber attack

Al-Qaeda's main Internet sites have gone silent for more than a week in an unprecedented blackout that is most likely the result of a cyber attack, analysts said Tuesday.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Satellite captures images of sandstorm

ESA's Envisat satellite has captured images of a sandstorm over Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and southern Iraq and Iran.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Increase in Arctic shipping poses risk to marine mammals

A rapid increase in shipping in the formerly ice-choked waterways of the Arctic poses a significant increase in risk to the region's marine mammals and the local communities that rely on them for food security ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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