The Kepler team today reports on four years of observations from the W. M. Keck Observatory targeting Kepler's exoplanet systems, announcing results this week at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington. These observations, ...
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Flu season continues to tighten its grip on the United States, with 35 states now experiencing widespread influenza activity, federal officials reported Friday. The flu seems to be hitting young and middle-aged adults the hardest this ...
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University of Hawaii at Manoa astronomer Regina Jorgenson has obtained the first image that shows the structure of a normal galaxy in the early universe. The results were presented at the winter American Astronomical Society meeting being ...
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A common problem at Pearl Harbor, biofouling affects harbors around the world. It's the process by which barnacles, muscles, oysters, and tubeworms accumulate on the bottom of boats and other surfaces. Now researchers at the University of ...
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Influenza activity remained high in the U.S. South and South Central states for the week ending Jan. 4, but remains low in the Northeast, officials say. The weekly flu report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said flu ...
Like salmon in reverse, long-snouted Bandringa sharks migrated downstream from freshwater swamps to a tropical coastline to spawn 310 million years ago, leaving behind fossil evidence of one of the earliest known shark nurseries. That's ...
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Feed-in tariffs (FIT) have been the preferred policy in many regions of the world to help support investors to rapidly increase installation of renewable energy installations projects and markets. Under most FITs, homeowners, businesses, ...
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Red and green traps attract more sweetpotato weevils than other colors, and a Montana State University researcher who made that discovery wants to know if Montana insects react the same way. Gadi V.P. Reddy, superintendent and ...
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Dakine’s new winter 2015 collection is designed to take you from the deep snow of the backcountry to vibrant urban landscapes. Each style is thoughtfully engineered with a fusion of essential features, proven quality and ...
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For the week ending Dec. 21, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas reported high flu activity, but in most of the country flu was low. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the proportion of ...
Palama Holdings, LLC, a Kapolei, HI, establishment, is recalling approximately 3,600 pounds of raw, frozen marinated chicken products because they may have experienced temperature abuse in the distribution chain. The products subject to ...
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Palama Holdings is recalling about 3,600 pounds of raw, frozen marinated chicken products after potential temperature irregularities have been identified, the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) ...
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For the week ending Dec. 14, U.S. influenza increased nationwide, but Texas was hard hit with more than a dozen critically ill and six dead, officials say. The influenza strain H1N1 -- the same strain that caused the 2009 pandemic -- ...
Fifteen years after the $246 billion tobacco legal settlements were reached most states are not spending much on tobacco cessation, U.S. researchers say. Tobacco use is the top cause of preventable U.S. death, killing more than 400,000 ...
In 2013 the Chinese LED packaging market has grown far quicker than the global average, reckons TrendForce's Green Energy Division LEDinside. LED lighting is still the largest application sector, accounting for 42% of the 2013 Chinese LED ...
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