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  New Model to Determine Lifetime Spending

  January 30, 2013 — New research shows new, more effective ways to plan for ... > full story
• Physics
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  Reconcilable Differences: Study Uncovers the Common Ground of Scientific Opposites

  January 30, 2013 — Researchers have developed a mathematical framework that strips away the differences between scientific laws and theories to reveal how the ideas are compatible. They have explained how the ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
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  Researchers Develop Model for Identifying Habitable Zones Around Star

  January 30, 2013 — Researchers searching the galaxy for planets that could pass the litmus test of sustaining water-based life must find whether those planets fall in a habitable zone, where they could be capable of ... > full story
• Global Warming
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  New Research Shows Complexity of Global Warming

  January 30, 2013 — Global warming from greenhouse gases affects rainfall patterns in the world differently than that from solar heating, according to a new ... > full story
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  Program to Overcome Early U.S. Math Deficiencies Could Improve Workforce

  January 30, 2013 — Researchers identified how a lack of a specific math skill in first grade correlated to lower scores on a seventh grade math test used to determine employability and wages in ... > full story

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  Could Traditional Chinese Medicine Hold an Answer to the Obesity Problem?

  January 30, 2013 — Obesity might be a very modern problem, but a team of scientists from Taiwan and China is turning to the age-old principles of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to help fight it. Breaking research ... > full story
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  The Ecological Badminton Robot: Optimizing Energy Efficiency in Machine Design

  January 30, 2013 — A robot to play with! A childhood's dream has now come true for researchers in Belgium. Wim Symens and his team pioneered the development of the first robot ever to play badminton. But this robot is ... > full story
• Alcoholism
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  Rats, Like Humans, Return to Drinking Once Punishment Is Removed

  January 30, 2013 — Once heavy drinking impairs function, a variety of punishment-related threats may motivate people to stop drinking: spouses may threaten divorce, employers may threaten job loss, and courts threaten ... > full story
• Computer Programming
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  Engineers Solve a Biological Mystery and Boost Artificial Intelligence

  January 30, 2013 — By simulating 25,000 generations of evolution within computers, engineering and robotics researchers have discovered why biological networks tend to be organized as modules -- a finding that will ... > full story
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  NASA to Launch Ocean Wind Monitor to Space Station

  January 29, 2013 — In a clever reuse of hardware originally built to test parts of NASA's QuikScat satellite, the agency will launch the ISS-RapidScat instrument to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ... > full story

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