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Most Students in U.S. Are Not Proficient in Science

January 26, 2011

Less than 50% of U.S. students are proficient in science.

One national “report card” on test scores, released Tuesday morning, paints a dismal picture of how well the country’s students have mastered science. Just 34 percent of fourth-graders, 30 percent of eighth-graders, and 21 percent of 12th-graders are performing at or above “proficient” in the most recent snapshot from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which gives science scores from 2009.

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‘Talking Cars’ Someday May Save Lives

January 26, 2011

The systems are still five to 10 years from being deployed into America’s car fleet.

Could “talking cars” save lives? A group of car companies is developing safety systems using advanced Wi-Fi signals and GPS systems that could allow vehicles to communicate with each other on the road. The cars could then send messages to warn their drivers about potential crashes.

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Great New Product, New Inventions, Science & Technology News

Curvilinear Camera – Much Like the Human Eye but with a Zoom

January 25, 2011

Curvilinear Camera

The researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign have became highly successful in devising a eyeball camera. The curvilinear camera is a synthesis between human eye and 3.5x single-lens reflex (SLR) zoom lens – Higher zoom will be integrated in the future. Continue reading… “Curvilinear Camera – Much Like the Human Eye but with a Zoom”

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Study: Future Criminals Could be Identified as Toddlers

January 25, 2011

Identifying youngsters at such an early age could be a cheap way of tackling a range of issues from drug abuse to prison overcrowding.

Tantrums and lack of self control in toddlers is a sign they may grow up to be drugs addicts and criminals, claims research. Badly behaved children as young as three are also the most prone to financial and health problems in adulthood.

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Animals, Big Problems, Health & Fitness, Science & Technology News

Don’t Sleep With Your Pet, You Make Catch Something

January 25, 2011

You could get sick letting your pet sleep with you.

Letting sleeping dogs lie in your bed can make you sick, research suggests. Pet owners may increase the chances of contracting everything from worms to the bubonic plague. Of the 250 known diseases transmitted from animals to humans, more than 100 of them come from domestic animals, researchers say.

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‘Suits That Transport’ – Wearable Transportation of the Future

January 25, 2011

Suits that Transport

Students of automotive design and fashion at the European Institute of Design in Barcelona have joined forces to explore the futures of urban mobility, in collaboration with Iniciativa BMW. “Suits That Transport”—translated a little cagily from the Spanish “El traje que te transporta”— is the name given to an exhibition of the students final outcomes currently on public display on the Rambla Catalunya in central Barcelona. (pics)

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Business, Food, Great New Product, Great Videos, Science & Technology News

What’s for Dinner? Kraft Food Kiosk Scans Your Face and Picks Your Dinner for You

January 25, 2011

Kraft and Intel are teaming up to bring a vending machine kiosk that makes the food buying decision for you.

Dinner planning: It’s the bane of every five o’clock shopper who can’t bear to serve up frozen pizza one more night. Now, with the help of some spooky video analytics, Intel and Kraft aim to help harried shoppers come up with better–or at least different–solutions, right in their grocery aisles. (video)

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Economy, Globalism, government, Science & Technology News

China Planning World’s Largest Mega-City with 42 Million People

January 24, 2011

China planning to merge nine cities to create the world’s largest mega city.

China is planning to create the world’s biggest mega city by merging nine cities to create a metropolis twice the size of Wales with a population of 42 million. City planners in south China have laid out an ambitious plan to merge together the nine cities that lie around the Pearl River Delta.

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PiCycle – An Electric Bike That Streams Critical Data to Your Smartphone

January 24, 2011

PiCycle

The PiCycle is a clean, modern, hybrid/electric bike designed by Marcus Hays, the founder of PiMobility. It’s fast, quiet, dependable and can give you enough torque to keep up with motor vehicles in the city. It’s also equipped with PiFi, an embedded wireless technology that streams critical data to the PiCycle owner’s smart phone or iPod Touch via a native application. PiMobility can monitor battery health, battery charging frequency, battery cycle life, motor and controller experience and more. This also means that PiMobility can provide theft recovery services and more importantly, if something does go wrong with the PiCycle, take preventative measures such as shipping the replacement parts long before anyone has to trudge down to their local repair facility seeking services.

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Cost Of Heart Disease in U.S. Will Triple by 2030

January 24, 2011

Patient in ICU after suffering second heart attack.

The costs of heart disease in the United States will triple between now and 2030, to more than $800 billion a year, a report commissioned by the American Heart Association predicted on Monday.

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China’s Economy Overtook the U.S. in 2010 to Become Number One

January 24, 2011

China’s economy overtook the U.S. in 2010.

Some time in 2010, the Chinese economy overtook that of the United States. In purchasing power parity (PPP) terms – that is, adjusting for the different costs of living in the two countries – the size of China’s economy was $14.8 trillion in 2010, compared to the US economy’s $14.6 trillion.

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New Traceability Rule Represents Major Adjustment for U.S. Food Industry

January 24, 2011

Where does your food come from?

In response to a new federal food safety law and growing consumer interest, vast amounts of new data are being generated about the complicated path that food takes from field to supermarket shelf.

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