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10 Failed Doomsday Predictions »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 2 days, 8 hours ago in News
From Haley’s Comet in 1910 to Y2K, the world hasn’t ended — yet
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5 Animal Genomes That May Hold Cures to Human Diseases »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 2 days, 8 hours ago in Science & Technology
An international team of scientists has just proposed decoding the genetic blueprints, or genomes, of 10,000 species of vertebrates—essentially, one member of each ...
(read more)Read (39) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at popularmechanics.com
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Coffee Drinking May Protect Against Viruses, Japanese Study Finds »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 4 days, 8 hours ago in News
According to a Japanese team, coffee extracts, caffeine and caffeic acid have a positive effect in the fight against poliomyelitis and the herpes virus HSV-1
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Top 50 Failed Technology Predictions of All Time »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 5 days, 6 hours ago in News
Sometimes, someone says something that turns out to be an incorrect prediction. In hindsight, however, the people who said these things may have had good ...
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First iPhone worm spreading, warn security experts »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 5 days, 10 hours ago in Science & Technology
An Australian hacker claims to have written the first iPhone worm, though only for phones that have been "jailbroken".
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10 Common Food Poisoning Risks »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 1 week ago in Health & Fitness
A consumer advocacy group identifies the top 10 foods associated with outbreaks of food-borne illness.
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Lawmakers Caught Again by P2P File Sharing Software »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 1 week, 3 days ago in Political News
A document, apparently a 'confidential House ethics committee report,' was recently leaked through file-sharing software. 'The committee's review of investigations became available on file-sharing ...
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Study: Don't worry, be unhappy! »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 1 week, 3 days ago in Science & Technology
Grouchy, negative people cope better than their cheerful counterparts in demanding situations, psychologist Joseph Forgas at the University of New South Wales writes in the ...
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X-ray voted most important modern discovery »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 1 week, 3 days ago in Science & Technology
The X-ray has been voted the most important modern discovery by the British public, in a Science Museum poll. The antibiotic agent penicillin came second ...
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Study: Half of U.S. kids will receive food stamps »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 1 week, 4 days ago in Health & Fitness
Half of American kids will live in households receiving food stamps before age 20, according to a study reported Monday in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent ...
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8 Racist Ads You Won't Believe Are From the Last Few Years »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 1 week, 4 days ago in Style
In the Golden Age of Advertising, producing commercials was easy. You could pretty much toss in any horrific stereotype you thought would help sell your ...
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Toyota to launch battery electric vehicle in 2012, fuel cell in 2015 »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 1 week, 4 days ago in News
Bob Carter, group vice president and general manager of the Toyota brand, came to Detroit on Monday to have lunch with some local media. Among ...
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FBI Says Top Scientist Sold Secrets »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 2 weeks ago in News
Last month, inside one of the many hotels lining Connecticut Avenue in downtown Washington, one of the country's top defense scientists allegedly offered to ...
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The Internet’s First 40 Years: Top 10 Milestones »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
While 40 years in a person's lifetime is a very long time, the Internet -- which turned 40 today -- is really only getting starte
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7 ghoulish archaeological discoveries »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Remember the haunted house in grade-school where your hand was guided into a bowlful of "brains"? Those skinned grapes have nothing on what scientists have ...
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