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  Doctors-in-Training Spend Very Little Time at Patient Bedside, Study Finds

  April 23, 2013 — Medical interns spend just 12 percent of their time examining and talking with patients, and more than 40 percent of their time behind a computer, according to a new study that closely followed ... > full story
• Back and Neck Pain
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  3-D System Could Prevent Shoulder Injuries in Baseball Pitchers

  April 23, 2013 — A new 3-D motion detection system could help identify baseball pitchers who are at risk for shoulder injuries, according to a new ... > full story
• Chemistry
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  Computer Programming
   
  

  Scientists Map All Possible Drug-Like Chemical Compounds: Library of Millions of Small, Carbon-Based Molecules Chemists Might Synthesize

  April 22, 2013 — Drug developers may have a new tool to search for more effective medications and new materials. It's a computer algorithm that can model and catalog the entire set of lightweight, carbon-containing ... > full story
• Intelligence
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  Sporting Events: Clear Your Memory to Pick a Winner

  April 22, 2013 — Predicting the winner of a sporting event with accuracy close to that of a statistical computer program could be possible with proper training, according to ... > full story
• Energy and the Environment
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  Rivers Act as 'Horizontal Cooling Towers' for Power Plants, Study Finds

  April 22, 2013 — Running two computer models in tandem, scientists have detailed for the first time how thermoelectric power plants interact with climate, hydrology, and aquatic ecosystems throughout the northeastern ... > full story
• NASA
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  NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites

  April 22, 2013 — Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space April 21, 2013 aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in ... > full story
• Optics
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  Germanium Is Now Laser Compatible

  April 22, 2013 — Good news for the computer industry: a team of researchers has managed to make germanium suitable for lasers. This could enable microprocessor components to communicate using light in future, which ... > full story
• Stem Cells
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  Biggest Family Tree of Human Cells Created

  April 21, 2013 — Biologists have created the biggest family tree of human cell ... > full story
• Energy Technology
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  Energy and Resources
   

  Device to Mitigate Power Outages, Prevent Equipment Damage

  April 19, 2013 — Engineering researchers have developed equipment that will prevent rolling power outages by regulating or limiting the amount of excess current that moves through the power grid when a surge ... > full story
• Computer Programming
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  New Algorithm Helps Evaluate, Rank Scientific Literature

  April 18, 2013 — Keeping up with current scientific literature is a daunting task, considering that hundreds to thousands of papers are published each day. Now researchers have developed a computer program to help ... > full story

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