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Mobile Phone App Helps Save Fuel by Promoting Better Driving
January 10, 2013 Researchers in Spain have developed a mobile phone application called DrivingStyles that characterizes our driving style. The system detects bad habits and helps promote better driving ... > full story -
Scientists Develop Strongest, Lightest Glass Nanofibers in the World
January 10, 2013 Globally the quest has been on to find ultrahigh strength composites, leading scientists to investigate light, ultrahigh strength nanowires that are not compromised by defects. Historically, carbon ... > full story -
Online Message Boards Provide Outlets for Mothers' Concerns, Researcher Says
January 9, 2013 Parenting infants and toddlers can be challenging, and for generations, mothers have turned to other moms for advice. Now, with the availability of the Internet, mothers are consulting each other ... > full story -
Earth-Size Planets Common in Galaxy: Perhaps 17 Percent of Sun-Like Stars Have Earth-Size Planets Within the Orbit of Mercury
January 8, 2013 Last year, astronomers were excited to discover that the number of exoplanets increases towards smaller sizes, which suggests that there are many Earth-size planets in the galaxy. A new analysis of ... > full story -
Researchers Work to Counter Spear Phishing Attacks
January 8, 2013 Researchers are working to counter threats from spear phishing. The attacks use knowledge of computer users to gain their trust to break into corporate ... > full story -
Parkinson's Disease Itself Does Not Increase Risk of Gambling, Shopping Addiction, Study Finds
January 7, 2013 Parkinson's disease itself does not increase the risk of impulse control problems such as compulsive gambling and shopping that have been seen in people taking certain drugs for Parkinson’s ... > full story -
Book Underscores Internet’s Negative Impact on Religion
January 7, 2013 Religious groups aren’t capturing the hearts of the millennial generation, and the Internet is partly to blame, says the author on a new book on building strong religious ... > full story -
Smart Search Engines for News Videos
January 7, 2013 Searching for video recordings regularly pushes search engines to their limit. The truth of the matter is that purely automatic algorithms are not enough; user knowledge has to be harnessed, too. ... > full story -
Computer Scientists Find Vulnerabilities in Cisco VoIP Phones
January 4, 2013 Researchers have found vulnerabilities in Cisco VoIP telephones, recently demonstrating how they can insert malicious code into a Cisco VoIP phone (any of the 14 Cisco Unified IP Phone models) and ... > full story -
Online Science News With User Comments Fraught With Unintended Consequences, Study Suggests
January 3, 2013 A science-inclined audience and wide array of communications tools make the Internet an excellent opportunity for scientists hoping to share their research with the world. But that opportunity is ... > full story
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