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Shock Is the First Step to Stop Smoking

A new research carried out at Staffordshire University, has concluded that women who see the effects that smoking will have on their faces, might be shocked enough to quit.This research has been funded by Stoke-on-Trent NHS Primary Care Trust (PCT), and it involved 47 women aged between 18 and 34 years.The researcher...

7 December 2010
03:33 GMT

Your iPod Can 'Shock' You, Says Apple

Apple has posted a support document online signaling that it is possible to receive a small and quick electrical (static) shock from your earbuds while listening to your iPod or iPhone. The company stresses that this issue is similar to “dragging your feet across a carpet and receiving a static shock by touchin...

19 May 2009
08:41 GMT

How GFCI Outlets Work

Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters or Residual Current Circuit Breakers are electrical wiring devices used as protection against electrical currents that are not balanced between the neutral conductor and the phase. These situations usually occur when current is being leaked through the body of a living being, from th...

9 June 2008
08:32 GMT

The Gene of Cold Resistance

It would be nice to see all the mosquitoes and nasty insects dead with the first cold wave, and maybe see them no more the next spring.But it doesn't work like that: even if we do not see them during the winter, they posses a number of specialized proteins, "heat-shock proteins", that enable them to pass through...

31 May 2007
04:49 GMT


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