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Right to remain silent not understood by many suspects
Movies and TV shows often depict crime with a police officer handcuffing a suspect and warning him that he has the right to remain silent. While those warnings may appear clear-cut, almost 1 million criminal cases may be ...
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High-tech team's mile-wide timepiece to be world's largest
Jim Bowers is playing with time during this year's sold-out Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.
Aug 04, 2011 |
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UK journalists use social media despite fears of impact on quality
According to a major new survey by Canterbury Christ Church University and Cision, the leading provider of PR software and services, 90% of journalists regularly use social media, but most of those surveyed were worried about ...
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Italian academia is a family business, statistical analysis reveals
Unusually high clustering of last names within Italian academic institutions and disciplines indicates widespread nepotism in the country's schools, according to a new computational analysis.
Aug 04, 2011 |
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Stray-bullet shootings most often harm innocents
In the first nationwide study of stray-bullet shootings, Garen Wintemute, professor of emergency medicine and director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at UC Davis School of Medicine and Medical Center, quantifies ...
Aug 03, 2011 |
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Lost tale of a forgotten shipwreck discovered
A lost book, revealing the story of a forgotten shipwreck, has been discovered by an expert at the University of St Andrews.
Aug 03, 2011 |
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A toss of the dice reveals the truth
In a new study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, researchers show how a simple toss of the dice can help to bring out honest answers when people are asked difficult questions.
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Scientist suspension is about project's management
(AP) -- The government's suspension of an Arctic scientist was related to how a polar bear research project was awarded and managed and not his earlier scientific work detailing drowned polar bears, a watchdog group said ...
Aug 02, 2011 |
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Physics could be behind the secrets of crop-circle artists
In this month's edition of Physics World, Richard Taylor, director of the Materials Science Institute at the University of Oregon, takes a serious, objective look at a topic that critics might claim is beyond scientific understanding ...
Aug 01, 2011 |
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Burglars hunt down rhinos in museums
It was a daring daytime robbery at the natural science museum.
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Study shows drop in long-distance moves not due to economic slumps
While Americans have a storied past with internal migration dating back hundreds of years, the number of people relocating within the U.S. has dropped to a 30-year low.
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Funding for nonhuman primate research questioned
A major review of nonhuman primate use in medical research has been conducted in the UK by Professor Sir Patrick Bateson, who is the president of the Zoological Society of London and an ethnologist from Cambridge University, ...
Jul 28, 2011 |
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World population to surpass 7 billion in 2011
Global population is expected to hit 7 billion later this year, up from 6 billion in 1999. Between now and 2050, an estimated 2.3 billion more people will be added—nearly as many as inhabited the planet as recently as ...
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New brand analysis method could help in cases such as Apple v Samsung
In April 2011 Apple alleged that Samsung had ‘slavishly copied’ their smartphones, and filed a lawsuit against the company on the grounds of infringing on Apple’s intellectual property.
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Russian teens world geography bee champs
They had to identify countries and regions of the world by economies, politics, latitudes -- even by a type of tortoise.
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More precise method of nanopatterning
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Tiny tech, big results: Quantum dot solar cells increase solar conversion efficiency
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Energy storage device fabricated on a nanowire array
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Memristors with a twist: Quasi-liquid soft matter foreshadows biocompatible electronics and flexible robots
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Large scale qubit generation for quantum computing
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Common Korean surname tells tale of nationhood
The most common surname in Korea – Kim – has been traced back 1500 years using a statistical model, providing evidence of a strong, stable culture that has remained intact to this day.
Travel time of rail passengers is increasingly well spent
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Historic Arabic medical manuscripts go online
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Good management, not just money, leads to innovative discoveries
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Exploring science through underwater robotics
Across the country this summer, middle and high school students are making a splash by discovering science and engineering while building programmable robots to accomplish underwater missions. "WaterBotics," an innovative ...
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The riddle of the Syriac double dot: The world's earliest question mark
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cambridge University manuscript specialist, Dr. Chip Coakley has identified what may be the world’s earliest example of a question mark. The symbol in question is two dots, one above ...
Science materials in Texas get prelim. approval
(AP) -- An expected fight over teaching evolution in Texas classrooms fizzled Thursday when the state's Board of Education gave preliminary approval to supplemental science materials for the coming school ...
Texas Ed Board compromises on evolution materials
(AP) -- The Texas State Board of Education gave final approval to supplemental high school science materials on Friday, delivering a blow to the board's social conservatives after a brief flare-up over some ...
Calvin less strict than thought
The prevailing view of Calvin as a rigid, authoritarian figure should possibly be adjusted, says Dutch researcher Ernst van den Hemel. Although Calvin in his magnum opus Institutes formulates theses in a strict and decisive ...
Heavy metal hardens battle
The French may have had a better chance at the Battle of Agincourt had they not been weighed down by heavy body armour, say researchers.
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