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Dec. 19, 2013 — The unobservable factors that underpin the infant mortality gap between blacks and whites have persisted for more than 20 years and now appear to play a larger role than the observable factors, according to a new study by Michigan State University researchers. Published in the...

Dec. 19, 2013 — UNIST announced a method for the mass production of boron/nitrogen co-doped graphene nanoplatelets, which led to the fabrication of a graphene-based field-effect transistor (FET) with semiconducting nature. This opens up opportunities for practical use in electronic devices. A...

OS X: Your Mac likes to cache things in your "free" RAM so if you need them later you can load them quickly. This might be nice sometimes, but if you need to free up a lot of memory for a particular task you might not want it filled with cache files. Memory Clean wipes them out with a couple of...

We've talked a lot about Windows 8.1's new features—like the return of the Start button—but there are some features and changes that have been mostly ignored. Blogger and Microsoft Press author Ciprian Rusen shares nine lesser-known features and changes that will affect the way you use Windows...

Chocolate truffles cost a lot when purchased from a candy retailer, but you can make them yourself easily with just two ingredients. All you need is two and a half boxes of melting chocolate and eight ounces of cream cheese. Read more...

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Windows: The Run dialog (activated with Win+R) is already a great tool for quickly accessing obscure features. Add2Run allows you to boost the utility of this feature by adding your own. Read more...

Today, Simple announced a sorely missed feature for users of its bank service: now you can send money directly from one Simple account to another with Simple Instant. It's available on the web for now, but iOS and Android support is coming in the future. Read more here. Read more...

Holiday parties are all about hanging out with friends and family, but it's possible that they can be too comfortable. If you're hosting a party this year, MPR News suggests you shortchange your guests on chairs so they're forced to move around. Read more...

Here's a really simple savings plan that anyone should be able to do and end up with $1,378 more socked away by the end of the year. It starts with saving just $1 the first week. Read more...

Control Center is a great little feature of iOS 7 where you can instantly toggle settings, pull up the calculator, and of course, turn on the flashlight. You're supposed to have to pull the Control Center up again if you want to turn off the flashlight, but Redditor youareaboy points out that...

The Canon EOS SL1 won a lot of fans for packing the venerable T4i into a smaller package, and now you can get it for an appropriately shrunk-down price. Amazon has the body only today for a mere $369, by far the lowest price ever. And if you want two kit lenses and a few other accessories...

Dec. 19, 2013 — Bullying isn't only a problem that occurs in schools or online among young people. It can happen anywhere to anyone, and a Rutgers-Camden nursing scholar is shedding some light on how it is becoming increasingly common in academia. "What worries me is the impact that bullying is...

Dec. 19, 2013 — Sheets of carbon just one atom thick could make effective transparent electrodes in certain types of photovoltaic cells. Graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon that is extremely strong and conducts electricity well, is the thinnest material ever made. Researchers believe that...

Dec. 19, 2013 — UBC researchers have discovered a universal electronic state that controls the behavior of high-temperature superconducting copper-oxide ceramics. The work, published this week in the journal Science, reveals the universal existence of so-called 'charge-density-waves' -- static...

Dec. 19, 2013 — An international research team has decoded the molecular structure of the medically important serotonin receptor at room temperature for the first time. This study reveals the dynamics of the receptor at close to its operating temperature and thus gives a more realistic picture...

Dec. 19, 2013 — In the very beginning of the school chemistry course, we are told of NaCl as an archetypal ionic compound. Being less electronegative, sodium loses its electron to chlorine, which, following the "octet rule," thus acquires the 8-electron electronic configuration of a noble gas...

Dec. 19, 2013 — A small band of particle-seeking scientists at Yale and Harvard has established a new benchmark for the electron's almost perfect roundness, raising doubts about certain theories that predict what lies beyond physics' reigning model of fundamental forces and particles, the...

Dec. 19, 2013 — Though it was hailed as a triumph for the "Standard Model" of physics -- the reigning model of fundamental forces and particles -- physicists were quick to emphasize that last year's discovery of the Higgs boson still left gaps in our understanding of the universe. But in making...

Dec. 19, 2013 — All good research breaks new ground, but rarely does the research unearth truths that challenge the foundation of a science. That's what Artem R. Oganov has done, and the professor of theoretical crystallography in the Department of Geosciences will have his work published in the...