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A group of scientists in the United States says that the Arctic has reached its maximum extent of ice cover for this year on March 7. This means that, in the coming months, the cover will begin to diminish until next winter.
The first week of March basically signaled the beginning of the Arctic melt season, acco... |
24 March 2011
03:43 GMT |
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In July 2010, the state of Indiana introduced new restrictions for teen drivers, in a move that get lukewarm reviews. Now, the first statistics to come out indicate that the measure was effective in reducing the numbers of accidents involving young adults. At the same time, a new report also showed that the restricti... |
15 March 2011
10:45 GMT |
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Studies have demonstrated that young parents are less happy than other parents of comparable age if they have many children. A new investigation shows that the correlation only holds until the parents reach mid-life, and beyond. At that time, they become truly happy about having a large family around them. Late-night... |
8 March 2011
04:57 GMT |
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According to the latest monthly report by the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), it would appear that the ice extent in the Arctic throughout February was the lowest in satellite history, on part with readings collected in 2005. Interestingly, while the North Pole was covered by less ice than ever before o... |
3 March 2011
05:58 GMT |
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German antivirus vendor Avira warns that the number of phishing attacks is again on the rise after a significant decline in December."While the numbers for Phishing in December were almost all red, showing a dramatic drop for the .org (-151%), .com(-76%) and .net(-24%) domains, we now have seen the exact opposite dev... |
23 February 2011
05:04 GMT |
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Facebook's efforts of becoming a real advertising power are paying off. For the first time, it ranked in the top 10 of most viewed ad networks, according to the most recent ComScore Top 50 U.S. Web Properties report (January 2011, US only data).Dominating the ad market as expected is Google with a 93.1% reach an... |
22 February 2011
07:04 GMT |
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In a paper detailing a long-term study, investigators were able to demonstrate that hepatitis C infection rates among injection drug users (IDU) have maintained steady over the past years, whereas a significant reduction was recorded in the number of HIV infection cases.
The investigation, which was conducted on ... |
31 January 2011
12:31 GMT |
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The chief scientist of the UK government, Sir John Beddington, said recently that the third world and developing countries cannot afford blocking the cultivation of genetically-modified (GM) crops on ethical and moral grounds, given the state the world is in. While avoiding to acknowledge the validity of the argument... |
24 January 2011
08:54 GMT |
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According to a report released by life insurance company CPP, card fraud has affected seven percent of the adult UK population last year and 13 million people overall.The UK adult population is a bit over 49 million, which means as much as 28% of adults have been affected by this type of fraud at least once in their ... |
19 January 2011
05:03 GMT |
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A group of researchers from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announces that, overall, last year was one of the two hottest ones ever recorded. In a top that the organization made, it came first, right alongside 2005. Experts say the results were a tie.These two years had the same average ... |
13 January 2011
09:03 GMT |
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Official statistics from the United Kingdom show that, on a national scale, the number of children that are born with extra fat on their bodies is increasing at an alarming rate. The finding is significant, as it highlights an issue which has not been taken into account too much over the years. Just to make things cl... |
10 January 2011
04:57 GMT |
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Google's Android operating system already attracted a lot of developers on its side, which came up with applications in excess of 200,000, the latest stats on the Android Market show. Apple's App Store for the iPhone, iPod and iPad might still be on the first position, with over 300k application available ... |
28 December 2010
11:51 GMT |
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Scientists are drawing attention to the fact that epilepsy, a condition that affects millions, is still not getting the attention it needs for specialists, research groups, universities and authorities. Considering the severity of the situation, this cannot go on, they argue in a new study. Unfortunately, epilepsy is... |
28 December 2010
04:41 GMT |
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Healthcare experts are currently drawing attention to the fact that a large portion of teens suffering from diabetes are still smoking, which exposed them to increased risks of developing heart diseases early on in life. Diabetics are through the very nature of their disease more prone towards becoming obese, sufferi... |
6 December 2010
10:49 GMT |
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Data protection solutions provider Imperva reports that the number of data breach incidents recorded in U.S. this year has nearly doubled compared to 2009, but the volume of exposed records has registered a huge drop.For its analysis, Imperva used data from Privacy Clearinhouse (PRC), a nonprofit organization that tr... |
4 December 2010
06:03 GMT |
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A new investigation reveals a worrying conclusion about the current trend among American healthcare specialists, which is to prescribe controlled drugs to teens in vast amounts. In the last 14 years alone, the number of prescriptions has nearly doubled, the report shows. The situation is really quite odd, considering... |
2 December 2010
10:36 GMT |
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A new research has demonstrated that people who use antidepressants from older generations are at an increased risk of developing cardiovascular diseases (CVD). The finding was derived from a study surveying thousands of people. The research was conducted on more than 15,000 Scottish residents, who were followed for ... |
2 December 2010
08:38 GMT |
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A new set of data coming from developer BioWare has shown that just 18 percent of the players who bought the game chose to play a female Commander Shepard, despite the fact that reviewers and the media talked at length about the very nuanced and powerful acting performance of female voice actor Jennifer Hale.Some com... |
26 November 2010
13:01 GMT |
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At a recent conference, investigators presented a new study, showing that very few of the women who are eligible to receive the HPV vaccine actually go on to take the shot. This happens in spite of public health campaigns, and numerous evidence to support the effectiveness of the vaccine. The issue is not with the wo... |
10 November 2010
06:18 GMT |
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The deep economic crisis that affects the world is having effects on a wide array of affects of society, including on people with low-income who suffer from chronic diseases such as diabetes.These individuals' health is heavily dependent on a certain type of nutrition and menus, and food insecurity due to dimini... |
8 November 2010
10:28 GMT |
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Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) show that up to 6 percent of the greenhouse gases being emitted in the world today could be reduced if corporations improve the flow and logistics behind their supply chains. These gases are accounted for by the path merchandise take to get from manufact... |
8 November 2010
06:02 GMT |
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According to a new investigation by researchers at the Harvard University, it would appear that the current obesity epidemic sweeping the United States will not cease until about 42 percent of the general population is affected. The research also takes into account several factors that other studies did not consider ... |
5 November 2010
05:41 GMT |
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The Nobel Foundation announced that the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics will be shared between economists Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen, and Christopher A. Pissarides.The three scientists have been awarded the prestigious Prize “for their analysis of markets with search frictions,” the official announ... |
12 October 2010
03:06 GMT |
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A team of Australian researchers is saying that the Baby Boomers segment of the population is starting to reinvent what retiring from the field of work means. The term Baby Boomer refers to cohorts of the general population that were born during the middle part of the 20th Century, after the end of World Wa... |
11 October 2010
11:23 GMT |
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A new investigation conducted by researchers in the United States reveals that the general public has registered no change in perception and discrimination levels when it comes to those who suffer from severe mental illnesses. Unfortunately, the correlation was also found to hold true for people who suffered from sub... |
16 September 2010
03:42 GMT |
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According to an extensive review of specialty literature, it would appear that people who are more pessimistic and grouchy tend to recuperate slower if they are suffering from heart problems.The researchers behind the investigation are quick to point out that these conclusions are not meant to make people doubt or tr... |
15 September 2010
08:29 GMT |
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According to a recent survey, it would appear that women are the most likely gender to understand and accept the truth about global warming and climate change, and also about the effects there phenomena have on our world.The international scientific community has reached a consensus a long time ago that the two pheno... |
15 September 2010
06:57 GMT |
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Space industry analysts believe that we may be heading for another space bubble, as it happened before in the 1990. And they have the official statistics to prove it.At this point, private spaceflights are considered to be the future of space travel. Companies that aim to provide affordable seats on flights taking pa... |
15 September 2010
05:04 GMT |
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According to a new official statistic, it would appear that the number of cancer cases has increased in Europe over the past decade. However, the same document shows that mortality rates are declining.In other words, treatments healthcare experts apply to their patients appear to be functioning, seeing how less peopl... |
13 September 2010
09:42 GMT |
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In a new statistical research, experts sought to determine whether the general public agrees with work being done in the field of synthetic biology, and learned that the vast majority is OK with such studies.The work was prompted by the recent innovation achieved at the J. Craig Venter Institute, where researchers tr... |
10 September 2010
05:04 GMT |
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A long-term study has recently revealed that people who take a lot of medication against depression and anxiety tend to live shorter lives when compared with peers who don't use such treatments. The 12-year-long investigation was conducted in Canada, mainly on patients suffering from anxiety and depression. More... |
10 September 2010
02:58 GMT |
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In a new investigation conducted on Indiana children in the sixth through twelfth grades, researchers determined that the incidence of marijuana and pipe tobacco use has increased considerably. What is weird about the new results is that they show cigarette consumption has decreased markedly from past studies, which ... |
9 September 2010
08:49 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) say that obesity and diabetes, two conditions tightly linked to each other, are currently still exhibiting a sharp rise in the state.According to the new research paper, it would appear that the majority of adult Americans living in California are eithe... |
1 September 2010
09:46 GMT |
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Given the fact that quality of life indexes are notoriously not objective, researchers have been trying to develop a mathematical formula for creating one for many years – and it would appear that they finally succeeded. Creating a quality-of-life index is a very complex and difficult problem to solve. The ques... |
30 August 2010
03:32 GMT |
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A report coming out of Panda Labs shows an increased trend for new malware and worm attacks to use USB devices as distribution channels.
The report places the figure around 25%, so for every one in four USB device, an attack has been reported.
Even if email attacks are still predominant, USB threats are on the rise... |
27 August 2010
11:15 GMT |
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Experts in the United States recently determined that breastfeeding can be used as an indicator of gagging a woman's risk of developing type II diabetes later on in life. The researchers found that females who had breastfed their babies after birth were a lot more likely not to exhibit any of the symptoms associ... |
27 August 2010
08:52 GMT |
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In a recent survey, researchers at the University of Michigan showed that, while many Americans remain united on some core values, they are still very much divided on some sensitive issues.These include immigration laws, religious beliefs, gay marriages, stem cells research and universal healthcare, among other thorn... |
24 August 2010
10:49 GMT |
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No more than two years ago, editors from some of the world's most renowned magazines said that printing will not disappear entirely for at least another decades – their estimates have now halved.Even the editor of Wired magazine, Chris Anderson, told the New York Observer that the magazine, in its current ... |
23 August 2010
03:14 GMT |
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Teenagers today have a harder time hearing what goes on around them than young people did a few decades ago. The new discovery could put a new spin on parents' complaints that their children don't listen to them – it may be that the teens simply don't physically hear them. Over the past twenty ye... |
18 August 2010
09:29 GMT |
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According to a new report released by experts in the United Kingdom, it would appear that 40 percent of all deaths associated with drug overdose may have been avoided. The research uncovered that 4 in 10 patients brought to emergency or trauma rooms with symptoms of drug overdose receive sub-standard medical assistan... |
6 August 2010
08:43 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the University of Bristol announce the conclusions of a new study they conducted on the general British population. The scientists say that their survey found that the country is virtually crippled by the vast number of choice its people are confronted with daily. The team believes that h... |
3 August 2010
06:49 GMT |
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The past decade was the warmest ever recorded. This is the bleak conclusion of the 2009 State of the Climate report, a document created by an international “army” of scientists and researchers. An estimated 300 experts from 48 countries participated in this investigation, organized in 160 research groups.... |
29 July 2010
06:26 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the Brigham Young University in Utah has recently determined that making friends is a very important factor in predicting the life span of individuals. The researchers say that, while things such as exercising and not smoking do have a large influence on the length of one's life span... |
28 July 2010
05:47 GMT |
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Investigators from the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) College of Medicine and the Texas A&M University have just announced the conclusions of a new study they conduct on physician-patient relationships in the nation's healthcare system. They determined that doctors don't really get their patient... |
26 July 2010
10:57 GMT |
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Five years have passed since a Chicago-based web developer reversed engineered the source code of a Google embedded map to use it in his project. Since then, Google has opened up its service and launched 5 major versions of its Maps API, the most successful and used API on the web. And, yes, bigger than Twitter'... |
30 June 2010
02:43 GMT |
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Many politicians, lobby groups and skeptics have tried over the past few months to downplay the importance of global warming, both in terms of reach and intensity. But new data from a recently-published report show that the majority of people are capable of discerning the truth from commercial interest, and remain co... |
11 June 2010
10:44 GMT |
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In a fortunate turn of events, it would appear that the United States had a higher number of students enrolling in science and engineering (S&E) graduate programs in 2008. It is often being said that the strength of a country can be measured by the amount of scientists it has, and the US had taken a turn for the wors... |
3 June 2010
04:17 GMT |
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SourceForge, the world’s biggest open-source code repository, has rolled out brand new statistics tools for their users. Project owners and normal site visitors alike can now view accurate and detailed statistics about the downloads timeline, location and the user's operating system.The company has kept di... |
1 June 2010
04:21 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the University of Michigan, in the United States, has recently published the conclusions of a new report, which depicts shifts in empathy among American students. According to the work, it would appear that young adults today are less likely to elicit such feelings in others with the sam... |
29 May 2010
03:50 GMT |
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Official statistics show that the general population of the United States now features three times more people suffering from allergies to various types of nuts than it did 10 years ago. Peanut allergies are on a steep rise, for example, and they currently affect 300 percent more children than they did in 1997. For t... |
14 May 2010
05:20 GMT |
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