If you watch the health reports on the news or read any health related material online or in print and you will generally run across some articles that are talking about the obesity epidemic in America and other countries. There are a number of health issues that come from being overweight and many of them can be lethal if not treated. One of the best treatments for the obese and the disorders that go with being overweight is exercise.
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Qualcomm Tricorder X prize offers $10M to inventor of real tricorder
The stuff of science fiction decades ago has a way of becoming science fact as time rolls on. Sometimes what it takes to get engineers and researchers into the mood to invent is a nice competition along the lines of the Ansari X Prize that resulted in the tech that Virgin Galactic is using in its future fleet of spacecraft to take passengers into space to enjoy weightlessness.
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Doomsday Clock clicks minute closer to global destruction
Oh dear; while we were marveling at big TVs, tiny phones and all the other excess CES 2012 has to offer, scientists decided we were another step closer to doomsday. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shifted their Doomsday Clock one minute closer to midnight this week, a symbolic warning that humanity is one step closer to global disaster. Pushing us to the precipice are "inadequate progress on nuclear weapons reduction and proliferation, and continuing inaction on climate change."
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Stephen Hawking misses 70th birthday celebration due to illness
One of the most famous scientists in the world is Professor Stephen Hawking. The wheelchair-bound Hawking suffers from the disease commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease. He was diagnosed at 21 and at the time people afflicted with the condition weren't expected to live more than two years after diagnosis. Hawking recently celebrated his 70th birthday.
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NeuVax E-75 cancer vaccine halves recurrence rate says US army
US Army researchers may have found a vaccine that significantly reduces the recurrence of cancer and could, with more work, eventually help prevent colon, prostate and lung cancer altogether. The drug, currently known as E-75 or NeuVax, has been found to cut in half the recurrence rate in women who have recovered from breast cancer, The Daily reports, as well as seemingly proving effective across a far greater number of patients than existing cancer medication.
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Ford working on a better Segway
Ford has announced plans for a new Silicon Valley R&D center to come up with a better alternative to the Segway or other "personal mobility experience" concepts, as well as integrating mobile tech better with its SYNC in-car infotainment system. The San Francisco lab, set to open later this year, will look at "a holistic approach to personal transportation" as well as how the car can be transformed into a sensor, sharing information such as when windshield wipers are turned on to track hyper-local weather and other trends. Meanwhile, Ford has also begun distributing its open-source collaboration with Bug Labs, announced last year.
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Scientists stop the clock, making an event unseen
We've all seen the crazy antics in movies that would be nigh impossible to pull off in any other situation than a movie set. Tom Cruise's character in the latest Mission Impossible, Ethan Hunt, strolled into the Moskow Kremlin, set up a faux-transparency screen in a guarded hallway that concealed him and his partner. Now, imagine that sans the special screen used by Cruise's character; an entire event going unseen. Scientists at Cornell University have, albeit on a much smaller scale, allowed for just that.
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Nokia tests show solar-powered phone not practical
Nokia has finished a research project that's been testing the feasibility of harvesting solar energy to power a mobile phone. The test involved five prototype feature phones equipped with built-in solar chargers that were distributed to various regions around the world to test under different climate conditions. Overall, Nokia finds that solar-powered phones are possible but very challenging and, at its current state, impractical.
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iPad hits 3bn app downloads while Android tabs lag at 440m
Apple iPad owners have downloaded over three billion applications since the iOS tablet's launch back in 2010, according to new software stats, far outperforming the download count of Android slates. The figures, collated by ABI Research, suggest 19-percent of all app downloads by Apple users are made by iPad and iPad 2 owners, whereas Android tablet users have downloaded 440m apps to-date.
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Hybrid sharks found in Australia result from interbreeding
A team of scientists has discovered the first hybridized shark in the world off the coast of Australia. The shark appears to be the result of interbreeding that doesn't normally occur between the Australian Black-tip shark and the common black-tip. The Australian black-tip is only able to survive in the warmer tropical waters.
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Study finds that Russian Quasicrystals may have come from space
Back in the 1980's, a scientist named Daniel Schechtman was the first to describe a quasicrystal and won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery. Some looked on the idea of the quasicrystals as impossible at the time they were first described. The reason is that the quasicrystal doesn't have the symmetry that goes with normal crystalline structures.
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Facebook hands out VISA debit cards to security researchers
I have always thought that the "white hat security researchers" that find a flaw in a site or application that is commonly use and then go directly public so nefarious sorts can take advantage of the flaw before it is patched are doing it wrong. Facebook does too and if you want to get the big money that finding a flaw or security issue with Facebook pays out you have to keep the flaw secret until it is patched. Facebook is handing out debit cards to the researchers that find bugs.
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