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Driving and hands-free talking lead to spike in errors A pilot study shows driving while talking on a hands-free cellular device leads to more driving errors than driving alone.
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Students perform well regardless of reading print or digital books Students did equally well on a test whether reading from a digital book or a printed one, new research shows.
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Active or 'extremely active' Atlantic hurricane season predicted for 2013 In its 2013 Atlantic hurricane season outlook issued today, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center is forecasting an active or extremely active season this year.
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Facial-recognition technology proves its mettle In a study that evaluated some of the latest in automatic facial recognition technology, researchers were able to quickly identify one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects from law enforcement video, an experiment that demonstrated the value of such te
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Perfect skin: More touchy-feely robots Robots could become a lot more 'sensitive' thanks to new artificial skins and sensor technologies. Leading to better robotic platforms that could one day be used in industry, hospitals and even at home.
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Research effort deep underground could sort out cosmic-scale mysteries Scientists have begun delivery of germanium-76 detectors to an underground laboratory in South Dakota in a team research effort that might explain the puzzling imbalance between matter and antimatter generated by the Big Bang.
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How playing surfaces affect athletic performance, injury potential Students have been jumping up and down for weeks on a variety of playing surfaces in a study to evaluate how each affects athletic performance and injury potential.
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The better to see you with: Scientists build record-setting metamaterial flat lens For the first time, scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new type of lens that bends and focuses ultraviolet (UV) light in such an unusual way that it can create ghostly, 3D images of objects
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Promising strategy to help vaccines outsmart HIV New research highlights an ingenious method to ensure the body effectively reacts when infected with the highly-evasive HIV virus that causes AIDS. The method involves the use of cytomegalovirus as a vector to help a vaccine better instruct T cells how to
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Youth with type 2 diabetes at much higher risk for heart, kidney disease The news about youth and diabetes keeps getting worse. The latest data shows that children with type 2 diabetes are at high risk to develop heart, kidney and eye problems faster and at a higher rate than adults with diabetes.
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