Tuesday's debate a hit on social media
(AP)—Tuesday's presidential debate was a big hit on social media.
Internet
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New advance could help soldiers, athletes, others rebound from traumatic brain injuries
A potential new treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI), which affects thousands of soldiers, auto accident victims, athletes and others each year, has shown promise in laboratory research, scientists are reporting. TBI ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 17, 2012
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Leaves of carob tree, source of chocolate substitute, fight food-poisoning bacteria
Leaves of the plant that yields carob—the substitute for chocolate that some consider healthier than chocolate—are a rich source of antibacterial substances ideal for fighting the microbe responsible for listeriosis, ...
Biochemistry
Oct 17, 2012
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Cleaner fracking
The technology that opened a wealth of new natural gas resources in the U.S. is producing millions of gallons of dirty water—enough from one typical gas well to cover a football field to a depth of 9-15 feet. Cleaning up ...
Environment
Oct 17, 2012
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Are young people who join social media protests more likely to protest offline too?
Among adults who use social media such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and blogs for political purposes, 42% are under the age of 30. A case study of the controversial Budget Repair Bill in Wisconsin explored whether young ...
Social Sciences
Oct 17, 2012
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Mathematics and the ocean: Movement, mixing and climate modeling
Studying the dynamics of the ocean system can greatly improve our understanding of key processes of ocean circulations, which have implications for future climate. Can applying mathematics to the research help? Dr. Emily ...
Mathematics
Oct 17, 2012
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Coral reefs and food security: Study shows nations at risk
A new study co-authored by the Wildlife Conservation Society identifies countries most vulnerable to declining coral reef fisheries from a food-security perspective while providing a framework to plan for alternative protein ...
Environment
Oct 17, 2012
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Researchers engineer microscale optical accelerometer
Imagine navigating through a grocery store with your cell phone. As you turn down the bread aisle, ads and coupons for hot dog buns and English muffins pop up on your screen. The electronics industry would like to make such ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 17, 2012
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Method uses cosmic rays to gather detailed information from inside damaged Fukushima nuclear reactors
(Phys.org)—Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have devised a method to use cosmic rays to gather detailed information from inside the damaged cores of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, which were heavily ...
General Physics
Oct 17, 2012
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Looking for the evolutionary origins of our pretty smile
It takes both teeth and jaws to make a pretty smile, but the evolutionary origins of these parts of our anatomy have only just been discovered, thanks to a particle accelerator and a long dead fish.
Archaeology
Oct 17, 2012
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