Simple ways to quiet ordinary snoring

October 3rd, 2009 Obamas celebrate anniversary with dinner outWASHINGTON — There was no trip to New York and no fancy outing as the Obamas celebrated their first wedding anniversary since they moved to the White House. Instead they kept it simple, with a dinner out Saturday night at an elegant, American-fare restaurant near Georgetown.

September 13th, 2009 LONDON - Human urine can help grow bumper tomato crops that can be eaten safely, says a new study. Surendra Pradhan, an environmental biology researcher at the University of Kuopio, Finland, and colleagues gave potted tomato plants one of three treatments: mineral fertilizer, urine and wood ash, or urine only.

September 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a new study, scientists have found that even a simple road can turn subsistence communities into commercial hunting camps that empty rainforests of their wildlife. The study was carried out by researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the IDEAS-Universidad San Francisco de Quito at Ecuador's Yasuni National Park.

September 11th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Australian scientists have come up with a non-invasive screening tool for detecting obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). Snoring is a very early symptom of sleep apnoea, however, monitoring the changes in pitch, frequency and other characteristics of the snores can help detect OSA.

August 25th, 2009 LONDON - A group of researchers from five European countries are designing a robot using human anatomy as a blueprint. The Eccerobot project has been designed to duplicate the way human bones, muscles and tendons work and are linked together.

August 20th, 2009 LONDON - The use of codeine to treat pain following a tonsillectomy could prove fatal for some children, a new report has warned. Dr. Gideon Koren from The University of Western Ontario investigated the death of a two-year-old boy following a relatively easy operation to remove his tonsils.

July 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows the strongest evidence yet that noise pollution negatively influences bird populations. The three-year study compared nesting birds inhabiting pinyon-juniper woodland sites surrounding natural gas extraction sites and their noise-producing compressors with birds nesting in adjacent, quieter woodland sites.

July 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study has come up with the strongest evidence yet that noise pollution negatively influences the nesting habits of birds. The study also indicates that at least a few species opt for noisy areas over quiet ones, perhaps because of their vocalisation pitches, a reduction in nest predators and less competition from other song birds that prefer quiet environments.

July 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of scientists has developed 'Bullet fingerprinting' technology, which is a simple but effective method to visualize fingerprints even after the print itself has been removed. The technology has been developed by Dr John Bond, from Northamptonshire Police Scientific Support Unit and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Leicester's Forensic Research Centre, in collaboration with University scientists.

July 6th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Men who have sex daily, especially with younger women, are more likely to live longer, according to a new study. The study, conducted by researchers at Germany's Max Plank Institute, found that a man's chances of dying early are cut by 20 per cent if their bride is between 15 and 17 years their junior, reports the Daily Telegraph.

April 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Feel all revved up to have some hot action in bed but partner doesn't share the same sexual appetite? Well, then it's high time you did something to solve the problem. Sexual incompatibility among partners can be attributed to many events like childbirth, stress, or loss of a loved one.

March 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama met with former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev here last Friday, the White House has confirmed. The meeting was not on Obama's official daily schedule.

March 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - You can make a person laugh only in eight ways, says a leading evolutionary theorist who claims to have found the reason to why jokes are funny. According to Alastair Clarke - who has published details of eight patterns he claims to be the basis of all the humour that has ever been imagined or expressed, regardless of civilization, culture or personal taste - he has identified the precise nature of the patterns involved, addressing the deceptively simple unit and context relationships at their foundation.

March 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Hollywood socialite Nicole Richie has revealed that she's not sure she will marry her daughter's dad, Good Charlotte rocker Joel Madden. Though the 'Simple Life' actress has reformed her wild partying ways since giving birth to daughter Harlow in January 2008, she has still not made up her mind about tying the knot.

February 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The exquisitely detailed and symmetrical snowflakes look like nature's creation, but they are actually the products of an elaborate computer model designed to replicate the wildly complex growth of snow crystals. The model that David Griffeath and Janko Gravner, mathematicians from Universities of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M) and California-Davis, respectively, designed, can generate all of nature's snowflake types in rich 3-D detail.