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Aussies Want To Work Fewer Hours

Australians want to spend less time at work, according to a new survey prompting calls for caps to be put on the working week. More than 1,700 people were quizzed on their work-life balance in a ...


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Nuke Debris Clue To Bomb Origin

Forensic analysis of the debris left after a nuclear explosion could yield crucial evidence about the composition and the origin of the bomb, say scientists. A US team examined Trinitite, the glas...


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Painkillers Risky In Pregnancy

Prolonged use of paracetamol and other painkillers during pregnancy may pose a health risk to baby boys, warn experts. Danish research suggests the drugs raise the risk of undescended testicles in...


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Radiation Cut Prostate Cancer

Deaths from high-risk prostate cancer can be cut by giving men radiation treatment as well as hormonal therapy, research by Cardiff University has shown. A trial of 1,200 men with prostate cancer ...


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Clue To Drug-Free HIV Control

Tiny changes to an "alarm" protein which responds to infections may explain why some with HIV can control their condition without drugs. Around one in 300 people with HIV are "controllers", and sc...


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Google Blocks Data From Facebook

Google Inc will begin blocking Facebook and other Web services from accessing its users' information, highlighting an intensifying rivalry between the two Internet giants. Google will no longer le...


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Vitamin E Linked To Stroke Risk

Taking vitamin E could slightly increase the risk of a particular type of stroke, a study says. The British Medical Journal study found that for every 1,250 people there is the chance of one extra...


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Spacecraft Snaps Images Of Comet

A spacecraft survived the closest encounter ever with a comet, tracking it just 435 miles from the comet's nucleus. Mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, br...


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Dell To Switch Over To Own Smartphone

Dell Inc will shift thousands of its employees off Research in Motion Ltd's BlackBerry and over to Dell's smartphones. The money-saving switch affects the roughly 25,000 Dell employees who carry...


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Asustek To Join Tablet Parade Coming January

Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc is set to start selling its first tablet computers in January next year, joining other tech rivals to compete with Apple Inc in the fast-growing market. An Asustek of...


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Autism Brain Secrets Revealed By Scan

Differences in the brain structure of people carrying an "autism gene" may offer clues to how the condition develops, say US scientists. Scans revealed children carrying the gene variant appeared ...


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Stressful Birth May Lead To Agression

Babies who undergo a difficult birth and are delivered using forceps are more likely to develop problems such as aggression during childhood compared with those born by Caesarean section, according ...


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Peanuts During Pregnancy May Lead To Allergy

The children of mothers who ate a lot of peanuts while pregnant may be at an increased risk of developing an allergy to the nut -- and the more peanuts the mothers ate, the greater the chances, a st...


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Mobile Phones To Unlock Hotel Room Doors

Visitors to a Stockholm hotel will be able to use mobile phones instead of keys to unlock the doors to their rooms. Assa Abloy AB, the world's largest maker of door locks, has launched a pilot in ...


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Singapore Opens Solar Manufacturing Facility

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong opened one of the world's largest integrated solar manufacturing facilities, a Norwegian investment, in Tuas. The S$2.5 billion facility, built by Renewab...


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High Salt Diet Bad For Health

Forcing food manufacturers to cut salt levels in processed food could help cut heart disease rates, claim Australian researchers. A theoretical study suggests mandatory salt limits could help redu...


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Most Flirtatious Women

Spanish women are the most flirtatious in the world online, according to a survey by a dating website which said the results belie lingering perceptions of a socially conservative country. Badoo.c...


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Apple Takes 95% Of Tablet Market

Apple controlled 95 percent of the emerging market for tablet computers with its iPads in the July-to-September quarter, research firm Strategy Analytics (SA) said. The competition in the market...


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Parcel Bomb Plotters Used Dry Run

A US official has told the BBC that suspect packages from Yemen were intercepted in September, in what may have been a dry run for last week's foiled parcel bomb plot. The shipments from Yemen to...


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Hopes Over Ending Common Cold

Scientists say they have made a landmark discovery which could pave the way for new drugs to beat illnesses like the common cold. Until now experts had thought that antibodies could only tackle vi...


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"No Plastic Bags" For Penangites

From Jan 1, 2011 all hypermarkets, supermarkets, departmental stores, pharmacies, fast food restaurants, nasi kandar restaurants and convenience stores (including at petrol stations) will be asked t...


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Google Gaining On Smartphone Market

Google's Android software platform rose to No. 2 spot globally on the booming smartphone market in the third quarter, research firm Canalys said. Nokia's Symbian continued to lead the market wit...


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Jellyfish Stabilised Ecosystems

A team of researchers have been trying to identify how jellyfish may benefit from marine ecosystems destabilised by climate change and overfishing. There is concern that a rise in jellyfish number...


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Alcohol More Harmful Than Heroin

Alcohol is more harmful than heroin or crack, according to a study published in medical journal the Lancet. The report is co-authored by Professor David Nutt, the former UK chief drugs adviser wh...


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Apple Sues Motorola Over iPhone Patents

Apple Inc sued rival Motorola Inc, claiming the Droid smartphone maker infringes on three iPhone patents. Cupertino, California-based Apple says Motorola is purposefully using its touchscreen soft...


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Better Weather Aids Rescuers

Improved weather conditions have allowed rescuers to step up their efforts to bring aid to survivors of a deadly tsunami in Indonesia. The death toll has now risen to at least 435, although the nu...


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DNA Barcoding Aims To Protect Species

Call it a DNA digital Dewey Decimal System for all life on Earth. Every species, from extinct to thriving, is set to get its own DNA barcode in an attempt to better track the ones that are endange...


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Small-Scale Human Liver By Stem Cell

Scientists have managed to produce a small-scale version of a human liver in the laboratory using stem cells. The success increases hope that new transplant livers could be manufactured, although ...


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Beating Malaria Is Impossible Now

Efforts to eradicate malaria in some countries may be counter-productive, an international team of researchers suggest. In the Lancet, they suggest some countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Afri...


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Extending Daylight Could Boost Health

Putting the clocks back in winter is bad for health, wastes energy and increases pollution, scientists say, and putting an end to the practice in northern areas could bring major health and environm...


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