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Halloween is scary enough without dangerous face paints E-mail
Thursday, 29 October 2009
According to the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, tests have revealed that some children’s face paints used at Halloween contain the metals lead, nickel, cobalt, and chromium. What is equally scary is the fact that these metals are often not listed on the product labels.

 
Internode’s Hackett grabs world record for electric vehicle E-mail
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Internode managing director and passionate electric car advocate, Simon Hackett, has smashed the world distance record for an electric vehicle by driving his Tesla Roadster more than 500 kilometres in the inaugural Global Green Challenge.

 
NASA scrubs Ares 1-X due to weather problems E-mail
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
At 11:20 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, October 27, 2009, NASA gave up trying to launch its first test flight of its new Ares 1-X rocket. The entire morning was besieged with adverse weather conditions, a ship in restricted waters, and a stuck probe cover.

 
Smaller difference seen between midlife male, female heart attacks E-mail
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
According to U.S. research in a comparision of heart attacks between men and women 35 to 54 years of age, men still have more heart attacks than women, but the gap is narrowing between them.

 
CSIRO hybrid plugs into the future E-mail
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
The CSIRO and energy distributor, SP AustNet, have started a three-month road trial of a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), which could one day end up in every Australian driveway, after modification of the car using a US-developed conversion kit at the CSIRO’s laboratories in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton.

 
Bosses have problems, too, and they may be worse than yours E-mail
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
According to research performed by researchers at the University of Toronto, people in positions of authority at work are at increased health risks for psychological and physical problems due to the stresses of being the boss.

 
Meteor hits above Indonesia E-mail
Monday, 26 October 2009
On October 8, 2009, a bright explosion was heard and felt in the morning sky above Indonesia. Without much news coverage over the following three weeks, a scientific report has just now been released that analyzes what happened. So, what happened?

 
Women getting shorter, heavier E-mail
Monday, 26 October 2009
U.S. researchers have concluded that women of northern European descent are getting shorter in height and heavier in weight from past generations to future generations.

 
Study finds heart attack symptoms the same E-mail
Monday, 26 October 2009
According to a Canadian research study, women have the same classic symptoms when having a heart attack as do men when they are having a heart attack.

 
NASA gives GO to first test flight of Ares 1 E-mail
Sunday, 25 October 2009
NASA officials approved on Friday, October 23, 2009, the first test flight of its developmental Ares 1 rocket that will eventually take astronauts into space. The Ares 1-X test flight is scheduled to liftoff on Tuesday, October 27, 2009.

 
Humans may call Karonga home E-mail
Sunday, 25 October 2009
According to a German-led excavation in the northern part of the African country of Malawi, in a township called Karonga, ancient evidence has been uncovered that may point to that area as to where humans originated.

 
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