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What's Your Terror Score?
You'll never know. A new government database will use algorithms to rate the terrorism threat of Americans traveling internationally, but you won't be able to check or dispute your score. In 27B Stroke 6. Making Bicycles That Balance Better
For nearly 150 years, scientists have been baffled by the bicycle. How is it possible that a moving bicycle can, all by itself, be so stable? Researchers believe they have now found the ultimate model of the bicycle. Oogling for Chemists
Chemical Google Facts for Features Special Edition: Launch of Sputnik I and Start of t
Facts and statistics marking the 50th anniversary in 2007 of the launch "by the Soviet Union on Oct. 4, 1957 [of] Sputnik I ... the first satellite to be put into orbit. The launch ignited the 'Space Race' between the United States and Soviet Union."Data covers the aerospace industry, U.S.-Russia trade, and population of the U.S., Soviet Union and Russia, and Brevard County, Florida (home of Cape Canaveral). From the U.S. Census Bureau. Scripps Studies Provide New Details About Antarctic Iceberg Detachment
A multifaceted research effort by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and their colleagues has resulted in several important new findings about Antarctica and the changing dynamics of its ice structure. During the project, researchers used a variety of approaches to uncover details of ice shelf "rifting"on East Antarctica's Amery Ice Shelf. [Odd] A Romanian couple has named their son Yahoo as a sign of gratitu
Daily Libertatea said on Thursday Cornelia and Nonu Dragoman, both from Transylvania, met and decided they were meant for each other following a three-month relationship over the net.They married and had a baby this Christmas, whom they decided to name after one of the worldwide web's most popular portals."We named him Lucian Yahoo after my father and the net, the main beacon of my life,"Cornelia Dragoman was quoted as saying. HIV Drug Resistance Increasing In UK And Among Highest In The World
Those infected with HIV in the UK have one of the highest rates of resistance to anti-HIV drugs of anywhere in the world, prompting fears of a second wave epidemic of resistant virus, a new study claims in this week's BMJ. Moderate Exercise Yields Cardiovascular Benefits
The amount of exercise may be more important than intensity to improve cardiovascular health, according to a new analysis of the first randomized clinical trial evaluating the effects of exercise amount and intensity in sedentary overweight men and women.
Alteration Of Brain Protein Regulates Learning
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a biochemical switch that affects how neurons fire in a part of the brain associated with learning, findings that may aid in understanding schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. The War of Ideas: September 11 -- Five Years On
2006 news and analysis from an Australian perspective about the aftermath in the Middle East of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Includes articles, narrated slideshows, and sound clips relating to Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestinian territories. From the Sydney Morning Herald.
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