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Plants & Animals Nov 30, 2015

Avian influenza expert raises concerns as USDA stockpiles vaccines

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is creating a stockpile of avian influenza vaccines, but an expert suggests careful consideration of the strategy and cautions that the strain of the next outbreak is unknown.

Business Dec 4, 2014

Three Bay Area tech startups announce holiday IPOs

Some of us may still be recovering from our Thanksgiving turkey dinners, but the holiday certainly didn't suck any energy from the IPO market.

Telecom Oct 9, 2014

Ultrafast Internet opens up new possibilities: experts

Superfast Internet connections are likely open up new kinds of communication such as "telepresence" and improve services such as remote health care, a survey of experts showed Thursday.

Optics & Photonics Nov 25, 2013

How a leftover Thanksgiving dinner gave us LASIK surgery

It was the day after Thanksgiving in 1981, and like most others across the nation, Rangaswamy "Sri" Srinivasan, a researcher at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, had brought some turkey with him to work. ...

Environment Nov 22, 2013

Nuclear technology: Keeping your food safe

As we sit down to our Thanksgiving dinners next week, we probably won't be thinking about radiation.

Security Nov 12, 2013

Protecting our passwords, and our sanity

Start counting. How many passwords do you have?

Business Nov 25, 2012

Thanksgiving steals sales from Black Friday

Thanksgiving shopping on Thursday took a noticeable bite out of Black Friday's start to the holiday season, as the latest survey found retail sales in stores fell slightly from last year.

Plants & Animals Nov 20, 2012

Today's domestic turkeys are genetically distinct from wild ancestors, researchers find

(Phys.org)—No Thanksgiving dinner is complete without a succulent roasted turkey. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that consumers cook and eat more than 45 million turkeys every Thanksgiving. Very few Americans, ...

Internet Nov 11, 2012

Singles Day: China's online shopping holiday

(AP)—Lei Shujie, a designer in Shanghai, piled up a wish list for Sunday, a quirky holiday dubbed "Singles Day" that has grown into China's—and possibly the world's—busiest online shopping day.

Social Sciences Mar 15, 2012

Can one simple strategy help consumers say 'no' to temptation?

When facing temptation, can a simple change of language make a difference? According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, consumers who respond to temptation with the words "I don't" versus "I can't" are more ...

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