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Treating the Symptoms: What's Wrong with U.S. Health Care - Live Science The tally is in, and we lost to the Brits. White, middle-aged Americans are far less healthy than white, middle-aged British, according to study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. You can joke all you want about their lousy teeth, but this wasn't even a close contest. In every single health category measured—such as circulatory disease, diabetes and cancer—Americans had a higher rate of sickness. |
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A car that could save the planet—fast - C/Net Ian Wright has a car that blows away a Ferrari 360 Spider and a Porsche Carrera GT in drag races, and whose 0-to-60 acceleration time ranks it among the fastest production autos in the world. In fact, it's second only to the French-made Bugatti Veyron, a 1,000-horsepower, 16-cylinder beast that hits 60 mph half a second faster and goes for $1.25 million. Wright, a 50-year-old entrepreneur from New Zealand, thinks his electric car, the X1, can soon be made into a small-production roadster that car fanatics and weekend warriors will happily take home for about $100,000 - a quarter ton of batteries included. For a photo gallery of what's under the X1's hood, click here.) startups are forming to equip new "plug-in" hybrids that run almost entirely on their electric motors. "Automakers can't do this," Eberhard says. |
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Why Ants Rule the World - Live Science It hasn't always been an ant's world. Scientists estimate modern-day ants first evolved about 120 million years ago. But the fossil record suggests that ants at this time weren't the prevalent insect that they are today. Not until 60 million years later, when some ants adapted to the new world of flowering plants and diversified their diets, did the critters achieve ecological dominance. Since then they've had a successful run of the planet [Image Gallery]. Scientists estimate that about 20,000 ant species crawl the Earth. Taxonomists have classified more than 11,000 species, which account for at least one-third of all insect biomass. |
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Biosciences:
5/15/2006: Why Ants Rule the World - Live Science
5/15/2006: Gallery: Micro-Life From Deep Sea - Wired News
5/15/2006: Eco-friendly date palm nursery opens (02-05-2006)... - FirstScience
5/15/2006: Genetic diagnosis to be widely used by
2015: scientists... - FirstScience
5/15/2006: Interfering RNA Silences Genes in 'Slippery' Immune Cells -- Novel Lab Technique Expands Researchers' Toolbox... - FirstScience
5/15/2006: Bid to save couple's IVF embryos -
BBC
Geosciences, Environment:
5/15/2006: Nuclear industry to eye water releases... - MSNBC
Computers:
Games and Devices
5/15/2006: • Xbox
360: The Inside Story - Business
Week
5/15/2006: What's old is new for Microsoft at E3
- C/Net
5/15/2006: Blu-ray key in PS3 pricing
- C/Net
5/15/2006: Nintendo: Look at Wii - C/Net
5/15/2006: Photos: Gadgets for the gung-ho gamer - C/Net
5/15/2006: Sticker shock over PS3 pricing - C/Net
5/15/2006: Logitech wireless iPod headphones for $36 - C/Net
Hardware and Software
5/15/2006: Bootcamp
423: Travelling with a laptop, part 2... - FirstScience
5/15/2006: The second coming of Intel's Core Duo - C/Net
5/15/2006: 27 comments - C/Net
5/15/2006: HP notebooks get spring makeover - C/Net
5/15/2006: Photos: New looks for HP - C/Net
Communications
5/15/2006: Cell-Phone
Tracking: Laws Needed - Wired News
5/15/2006: • Phones for the Young and the Resteless - Business
Week
5/15/2006: • Slide
Show: Tailor-Made Phones - Business
Week
5/15/2006: Democratic senator wants Net neutrality regulations - C/Net
5/15/2006: Planning a citizen broadband network - C/Net
5/15/2006: Someone has to pay for
TV:-but wh?- - C/Net
5/15/2006: 38 comments - C/Net
Internet
5/15/2006: UK's First Nuclear-Powered Website, From Geiger Counters To Toxic Waste T-Shirts... - FirstScience
5/15/2006: • BitTorrent Goes Hollywood - Business
Week
5/15/2006: Can BitTorrent swim in the
mainstream? - C/Net
5/15/2006: Google Calendar colors a CNET reporter's day - C/Net
5/15/2006: Meebo offers Web-based unified IM - C/Net
5/15/2006: AT&T promises IPTV to low income residents - C/Net
5/15/2006: How deep is the online-ad
well? - C/Net
Miscellaneous
5/15/2006: I'm the Blue Security Spammer - Wired News
5/15/2006: • Apple Finds It Can Do That - Business
Week
5/15/2006: Windows, Exchange flaws patched - C/Net
Energy:
5/15/2006: A car that could save the planet—fast
- C/Net
5/15/2006: Renewable Energy Corporation In Initial Public Offering... - FirstScience
5/15/2006: Renewable Energy Corporation In Initial Public Offering-2... - FirstScience
5/15/2006: Farm economy revs up ethanol-fueled engines - C/Net
Health:
Cardiovascular
4/16/2005:Scots top heart death rate league -
BBC
Cancer
5/15/2006: Scientists discover gene marker linked to prostate cancer... - FirstScience
Infectious
5/15/2006: DDT ban lifted to fight malaria... - FirstScience
5/15/2006: Toddlers hit by 'E.coli outbreak' -
BBC
Non-Infectious
Miscellaneous
5/15/2006: Treating the
Symptoms: What's Wrong with U.S. Health Care - Live Science
5/15/2006: Growing
Bones: New Technique Proves Promising -
BBC
5/15/2006: Hope for stone man syndrome -
BBC
5/15/2006: African babies 'dying at birth' -
BBC
5/15/2006: Kenya hails first test tube girls -
BBC
Prolongevity
History, Anthropology:
Miscellaneous:
5/15/2006: Different Drums, But in EHarmony - Wired News
5/15/2006: Lebanon to spend big on science... - FirstScience
5/15/2006: Skateboarding: The Latest Craze in Gym Class - Live Science
5/15/2006: Let Me Tell You a
Secret: How You Hear Whispers - Live Science
5/15/2006: Dell: Burned by a FireSale - Business
Week
5/15/2006: Sun's Big Open-Source Bet - Business
Week
5/15/2006: Finns share model for 'Star Trek' spoof success - C/Net
5/15/2006: Digital memories overwrite real thing - L. A. Times
5/15/2006: Five start-ups out to change the world
5/15/2006: A bold exploration of the global economic landscape - C/Net
5/15/2006: Flying robot attack 'unstoppable' - C/Net
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Alzheimers
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5/15/2006: Abandoned
children: What is the long-term effect on emotional health? -
BBC
Physical Sciences:
5/15/2006: New screens for high-energy physics users... - FirstScience
5/15/2006: Physics in Universe's youth... - FirstScience
Space and Astronomy:
5/15/2006: Here's What You Wear to Mars - Wired News
5/15/2006: Titan in Motion- New Video of Landing on Saturn's Moon... - Space.com
5/15/2006: Reports: X Prize Sponsor May Become First Female Space Tourist... - Space.com
5/15/2006: NASA contributes to Indian
moonshot... - MSNBC
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Technology:
5/15/2006: The RFID-Hacking Underground - Wired News
5/15/2006: Isn't it
Ionic: Air Purifiers Make Smog - Live Science
5/15/2006: Transport
Tuesday: Keep an eye on that ride - C/Net