Technology
- Text Messages From The ER Can Reduce Binge Drinking
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Imagine getting this text message when you are at the pub tonight: "Looking forward to seeing you at 2 AM- General Hospital". Creepy, but it may work. Young adults who screened positive for a history of hazardous or binge drinking reduced their ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 11 2014 - 10:12am
- England Football Can Still Win In Brazil- The Robot World Cup
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Though England football fans stopped singing "Three Lions" after the second game of the opening round at World Cup 2014, there is still hope to bring back hardware: in robotics. The University of Hertfordshire’s robot football team, the ‘Bold Hea ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2014 - 5:01pm
- Women With Sexy Social Media Photos Seen As Less Competent- Psychologists
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Young women who post sexy or revealing photos on social media sites are regarded by female peers as less competent to perform tasks, less physically attractive and less socially attractive, a new study indicates. "This is a clear indictment of sexy s ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2014 - 9:24pm
- The Big Data Problem Will Also Be A Problem For Science 2.0
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George Dyson. Credit: edge.org If you read about Big Data for very long, a quote from science historian George Dyson is sure to come up: "Big data is what happened when the cost of keeping information became less than the cost of throwing it away.&qu ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 15 2014 - 11:33am
- What Google Trends Reveals About Republican And Democrat Climate Change Concerns
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Is it true that you can discern how someone votes based on their Google search history related to science and health issues? It seems to be so, in a majority of cases. Republicans search for information about the weather, climate change and global warming ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2014 - 1:15pm
- Corticosteroid Drugs Used For Asthma Suppress Growth- Systematic Reviews
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Corticosteroid drugs used in inhalers by children with asthma may suppress their growth, suggest two new systematic reviews published in The Cochrane Library which focus on the effects of inhaled corticosteroid drugs (ICS) on growth rates. The authors fou ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2014 - 10:41pm
- Birdsongs Decoded
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Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have found a successful way of identifying bird sounds from large audio collections, by using recordings of individual birds and of dawn choruses to identify characteristics of bird sounds. They took advanta ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2014 - 4:51pm
- Mapping Environmental Effects On DNA One Cell At A Time
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A new single-cell technique can help investigate how the environment affects our development and the traits we inherit from our parents. It can be used to map all of the 'epigenetic marks' on the DNA within a single cell,which will boost underst ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2014 - 11:18am
- Using Twitter To Track Lady Gaga- Oh, And Flu
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A site called Social Predictor (sociadictor.com) predicts future trends based on the number of tweets, sentiment of tweets, number of news stories and sentiment of the news stories about celebrities and culture. It can also try and predict stock prices or ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2014 - 2:30pm
- Human Platelets Generated Using Bioreactor
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Scientists have developed a scalable, next-generation platelet bioreactor to generate fully functional human platelets in vitro. ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2014 - 2:00pm