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Horrible Facebook app breaks up relationships

We've seen creepy Facebook apps designed to help you automatically track someone's relationship status so that you'll be the first to know when he or she is single, but an app called WaitingRoom is taking things further: It's actually helping you encourage a breakup.

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Ooh la la! Top 10 fashion hotels

The clothes, the glamour, the shows are all heavily covered in the media, but where does a fashionista stay when visiting New York, London, Milan and Paris for fashion week?

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Luxury hotel for dogs in Paris gets tails wagging

Heated pools, massage salons and a-la-carte menus are de rigueur at luxury hotels across the world, but in one exclusive Paris establishment, the difference is the guests: they have four legs.

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Hubby a dud? Go on a date with someone else’s

With all the emphasis on “date night,” you’d think the only way to get close to your honey is to huddle together alone. But a new study suggests that bringing another couple on your date adds zing to your own relationship.

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New kind of optical fiber developed

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists led by John Badding, a professor of chemistry at Penn State University, has developed the very first optical fiber made with a core of zinc selenide -- a light-yellow compound that can be used as a semiconductor. The new class of optical fiber, which allows for a more effective and liberal manipulation of light, promises to open the door to more versatile laser-radar technology. Such technology could be applied to the development of improved surgical and medical lasers, better countermeasure lasers used by the military, and superior environment-sensing lasers such as those used to measure pollutants and to detect the dissemination of bioterrorist chemical agents

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Want some altered corn? You’re already eating it

Genetically modified plants grown from seeds engineered in laboratories now provide much of the food Americans eat. Most corn, soybean and cotton crops grown in the United States have been genetically modified to resist pesticides or insects, and corn and soy are common food ingredients.

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Vortices get organized

Exotic entities that arrange into a crystalline structure at near room-temperature could lead to a new approach to electronic memory.

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Botox for your bits? Shot may smooth over sex problems

Wrinkle-busting Botox has long been used to rev up the sex lives of women who blame waning allure on facial lines and creases, but doctors now say the injections can help smooth problems below the belt as well.

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Scientists create one-dimensional ferroelectric ice

(PhysOrg.com) -- Everyone knows that when water freezes, it forms ice. But a lesser known fact is that there is not one, but many different kinds of ice, depending on the way the ice crystals are arranged

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Scientists show atoms act like lasers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from The Australian National University have developed an atom laser that behaves exactly like a light laser, opening up new possibilities in things like holograms.

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Why the sandfish lizard wriggles as it does (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The sandfish lizard (Scincus scincus) lives in the desert sands of North Africa and burrows through the sand by wriggling. Now scientists in the US have created a computer model that emulates the physics of the lizard and other burrowing animals.

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