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Prenuptial Cohabiting Can Spoil Marriage

LiveScience.com -- Couples who shack up before tying the knot are more likely to get divorced than their counterparts who don't move in together until marriage, a new study suggests. Upwards of 70 percent of U.S. couples are cohabiting these days before marrying, the researchers estimate. The study, published in the February issue of the Journal of Family Psychology, indicates that such move-ins might not be wise. A...     07-23     采编 VincentZhang
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Top 10 Greatest Mysteries in Science

LiveScience.com -- This project began two years ago when we asked several several scientists from various fields what they thought were the greatest mysteries. From their input, we wrote about 14 big enigmas. None have been solved since. So last month, we asked you to rank the list. What follows, backed by more than 8,000 of your votes as of May 7, 2009, are 10 of the greatest mysteries facing science today. No. 1 w...     05-08     采编 saraa
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Volcano Plumes Spin Like Tornadoes

LiveScience.com -- By LiveScience Staffposted: 25 March 2009 02:03 pm ET The June 12, 1991 eruption column from Mount Pinatubo taken from the east side of Clark Air Base. Credit: USGSFull Size1 of 2The June 12, 1991 eruption column from Mount Pinatubo taken from the east side of Clark Air Base. Credit: USGS Two mechanisms for generating rotation in a volcanic plume have been shown. As the plume shoots up at an astou...     03-26     采编 saraa
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You Pay, Computer Prays For You

LiveScience.com -- By Bill Christensen, Technovelgy.composted: 25 March 2009 07:48 pm ETInformation Age Prayer is a site that charges you a monthly fee to say prayers for you. A typical charge is $4.95 per month to say three prayers specified by you each day. "We use state of the art text to speech synthesizers to voice each prayer at a volume and speed equivalent to typical person praying," the company states. "Eac...     03-26     采编 saraa
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Robot Madness: Walk Like Humans Do

LiveScience.com -- By Jeremy Hsu, Staff Writerposted: 25 March 2009 11:25 am ET Developed at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, the HRP-4C female robot is able walk and follow some basic commands. The robotic woman is about the same size as an average Japanese young woman, with a height of 62 inches and weighing just 95 pounds. Credit: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Scie...     03-26     采编 saraa
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Gang of Juvenile Dinosaurs Discovered

LiveScience.com -- By Robin Lloyd, LiveScience Senior Editorposted: 24 March 2009 10:18 am ET Mounted version of one of the juvenile Triceratops skulls from Hell Creek Formation in Montana. Credit: enginestudio.orgFull Size1 of 4Mounted version of one of the juvenile Triceratops skulls from Hell Creek Formation in Montana. Credit: enginestudio.org Group photo of the excavation team, minus Stephen Brusatte. The first...     03-26     采编 saraa
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ScienceLives:Being a Scientist Means (Almost) Never Wearing a Tie

LiveScience.com -- By Josh Chamot, National Science Foundationposted: 28 February 2009 10:57 am ET J.C. Poutsma pulls no punches as the devil's advocate during the 2007 William and Mary Raft Debate. The event is a mock debate set on a desert island where a scientist, social scientist, and humanist are shipwrecked in the presence of the devil's advocate and a judge. By trying to prove the supremecy of their field, ea...     03-02     采编 saraa
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Regional Nuclear War Would Affect Entire Globe

LiveScience.com -- By Andrea Thompson, LiveScience Staff Writerposted: 07 April 2008 ET Devastation of a regional nuclear war would be far from confined to the countries that started it. Plants and animals, including humans, would be endangered by a global ozone hole that would result and persist for years after all the bombs were exhausted, a new study suggests. The layer of ozone high up in the Earth's atmosphere ...     03-02     采编 saraa
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Extreme Green: Reusable Toilet Wipes

LiveScience.com -- By Robert Roy Britt, Editorial Directorposted: 27 February 2009 02:18 pm ETIn The Water Cooler, Robert Roy Britt takes a daily look at what people are talking about in the world of science and beyond. [Water Cooler Archive] In The Water Cooler, Robert Roy Britt takes a daily look at what people are talking about in the world of science and beyond. [Water Cooler Archive] The New York Times reported...     03-02     采编 saraa
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Oldest Known Bomb-Grade Plutonium Discovered

LiveScience.com -- By LiveScience Staffposted: 27 February 2009 10:44 am ETThis glass bottle, found in 2004 at the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state, contained several hundred milligrams of plutonium. Credit: The American Chemical Society This glass bottle, found in 2004 at the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state, contained several hundred milligrams of plutonium. Credit: The American Chemical Society Th...     03-02     采编 saraa
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Women More Religious Than Men

LiveScience.com -- By Robert Roy Britt, Editorial Directorposted: 28 February 2009 10:18 am ETIn The Water Cooler, Robert Roy Britt takes a daily look at what people are talking about in the world of science and beyond. [Water Cooler Archive] In The Water Cooler, Robert Roy Britt takes a daily look at what people are talking about in the world of science and beyond. [Water Cooler Archive] A new analysis of survey da...     03-02     采编 saraa
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The Shoe Fits! 1.5 Million-Year-Old Human Footprints Found

LiveScience.com -- By Jeremy Hsu, Staff Writerposted: 26 February 2009 02:07 pm ETThe cover of the Feb 26, 2009 issue of SCIENCE: an optical laser scan of early hominid footprints at Ileret, Kenya, color-rendered to illustrate depth; reds indicate high elevation, blues lower elevation. Credit: Matthew Bennett/Bournemouth UniversityFull Size1 of 4The cover of the Feb 26, 2009 issue of SCIENCE: an optical laser scan o...     03-02     采编 saraa
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Why Men Fall Asleep After Sex

LiveScience.com -- Seven things most men don’t know about their sexual health By Laurie Pawlik-KienlenAccording to Dr. Billy Goldberg, co-author of Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?, there is little direct evidence explaining why men fall asleep. However, the chemicals oxytocin, prolactin, gamma amino butyric acid (GABA) and other hormones all contribute to “that roll-over-and-snore feeling” because they facilitate ...     2008     采编 softmusics
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Ancient Cemetery Unearthed in Syria

LiveScience.com -- DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Archaeologists in northeast Syria have unearthed a 3rd century cemetery in the shape of a cross, the country's official news agency reported Wednesday.Ten skeletons, along with pottery and coins, were found at the site in Hassaka, 441 miles northeast of the capital Damascus, SANA reported.Some of the artifacts contained inscriptions in the ancient Aramaic language, it said.W...     2008     采编 sande
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Earth Gets Soft in the Middle

LiveScience.com -- Earth’s middle layer may be squishier than previously thought.A new study suggests the intense heat and pressure deep in the Earth makes sound waves travel more slowly through parts of the lower mantle than had been previously estimated, suggesting that part of this layer of the inner Earth is softer than expected.Below the crust of the Earth (the layer we stand on) lies the viscous mantle. The lo...     2008     采编 sandre
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Massive Self-Destructive Palm Found on Madagascar

LiveScience.com -- Botanists are marveling at the discovery of a towering palm tree on Madagascar that essentially flowers itself to death.The palm has a huge trunk that reaches a whopping 59 feet (18 meters) in height and is topped by fan leaves 16 feet (5 meters) in diameter. The tree is the most massive palm ever found on the richly diverse island and one of the largest known flowering plants — the trees can even...     2008     采编 sandre
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Huge Rodent Was Bigger than a Bull

LiveScience.com -- The largest rodent that ever lived weighed a ton or two, scientists revealed today.The extinct mouse-like critter was larger than a bull.An amateur paleontologist discovered the exceptionally well-preserved 20-inch-long fossil skull of the gargantuan rodent — dubbed Josephoartigasia monesi — embedded in a boulder on a beach in Uruguay. Scientists estimate this creature lived roughly 4 million year...     2008     采编 sammy
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Dozens in Texas Town Report Seeing UFO

LiveScience.com -- STEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) — In this farming community where nightfall usually brings clear, starry skies, residents are abuzz over reported sightings of what many believe is a UFO.Several dozen people — including a pilot, county constable and business owners — insist they have seen a large silent object with bright lights flying low and fast. Some reported seeing fighter jets chasing it."People won...     2008     采编 sande
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Did Bell Steal Idea for Phone?

LiveScience.com -- BOSTON (AP)—A new book claims to have definitive evidence of a long-suspected technological crime—that Alexander Graham Bell stole ideas for the telephone from a rival, Elisha Gray.In "The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret," journalist Seth Shulman argues that Bell—aided by aggressive lawyers and a corrupt patent examiner—got an improper peek at patent documents Gray had fil...     2008     采编 sandre
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Fossil of Extinct Armored Worm Discovered

LiveScience.com -- Scientists have discovered the first complete fossilized body of an extinct armored worm, solving a mystery about the full animal that had been known only by some of its parts.Paleontologists have long been puzzled by these bizarre critters, called machaeridians, because previous digs have turned up only bits of their armor — scales that ran along their back sides in rows.With the new fossil, rese...     2008     采编 sandre
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