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People toast with mugs filled with Sapporo beer at Sapporo Bier Garten in Sapporo, Japan, February 19, 2007. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao

Loud bar music makes customers drink more: study

Fri Jul 18, 5:42 PM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Customers of bars that play loud music drink more quickly and in fewer gulps, French researchers said on Friday.

  • College accuses fusion scientist of misconduct Fri Jul 18, 6:11 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A scientist who claimed to have achieved nuclear fusion on a table top committed research misconduct, Purdue University said on Friday.

  • A recently discovered fossilized jaw of a carnivore is seen at Smithsonian Research Institute in Panama City, July 18, 2008. Engineers digging to widen the Panama canal have uncovered more than 500 fossils including teeth and bones of rodents, horses, crocodiles and turtles that lived before a land bridge linked North and South America. REUTERS/Camilo Montes/Smithsonian Research Institute/Handout
    Canal fossils give clue to formation of Americas Thu Jul 17, 5:43 PM ET

    PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Scientists in Panama have unearthed hundreds of animal fossils dating back 20 million years, which could shed more light on how and when the American continent became connected.

  • A Tarahumara child is breastfed by his mother in the hamlet of Rikinapuchi, northern Chihuahua state, Mexico, January 22, 2008. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo
    Breast-feeding triggers pulses of feel-good hormone Thu Jul 17, 9:05 PM ET

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - When a baby breast-feeds, it triggers a flood of the hormone oxytocin that releases milk from the mammary gland and a feeling of love and trust in the mother that ensures the baby's needs are met.

  • Movie shows alien's-eye view of Earth and Moon Thu Jul 17, 6:32 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A spacecraft sent on a mission to inspect comets has filmed the Earth and its moon from 31 million miles away, making an alien's-eye view of our world.

  • Brain region linked to obsessive disorder risk Thu Jul 17, 2:34 PM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have located an area in the brain that fails to "kick-in" for people with obsessive compulsive disorder and those at risk of developing the condition.

  • Smokers take a cigarette break outside a government office building in Boston, Massachusetts May 5, 2008. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
    Menthol is used to hook young smokers: study Wed Jul 16, 7:19 PM ET

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tobacco companies manipulate the amount of menthol in cigarettes to make those first few puffs more palatable to young smokers, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday in a finding that could fuel support for more tobacco regulation.

  • Russian Marshal Ustinov missile cruiser leaves for the Barents Sea in this Aug. 2004 file picture. Russia announced Monday that it is sending warships to patrol Arctic waters for the first time since the breakup of the Soviet Union — the latest move to increase the country's global military presence. Patrols by the Northern Fleet's Severomorsk submarine destroyer and Marshal Ustinov missile cruiser will begin Thursday, July 17, 2008. (AP Photo/File)
    More evidence shows Mars once was wet all over Wed Jul 16, 1:14 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Minerals in the soil of Mars show it was covered once by lakes, rivers and other bodies of water that could have supported life, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.

  • A bumble bee collects pollen from a flower in a garden near York, northern England, June 28, 2008. REUTERS/Nigel Roddis
    Sick bees lose their buzz, study finds Wed Jul 16, 8:32 AM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - Bumblebees lose a bit of their buzz when ill, and like humans, have a tougher time doing daily tasks until they recover, British researchers said on Wednesday.

  • This photo released by the Great Ape Trust shows Rocky, a 3-year-old orangutan on July 12, 2008, at the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa. He and his 19-year-old mother, Katy, have had parts in several movies but recently came to Iowa as part of an effort by conservationists to limit the use of great apes by the film industry. The orangutans were donated by a Los Angeles area company that specializes in providing animals to the entertainment industry. (AP Photo/Great Ape Trust)
    Apes departing Hollywood for Iowa research center Wed Jul 16, 5:34 PM ET

    DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Filmmakers looking for an ape may be left scratching their heads after Hollywood's sole supplier of orangutans decided to quit renting them out and send six of them to an Iowa sanctuary, the facility's owner said on Wednesday.

  • A woman places flowers on the monument of the Tsar Nicholas II during the unveiling ceremony in Podolsk, Russia, in this July 28, 1998 file photo. REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin
    Russian says remains of last Tsar's son identified Wed Jul 16, 1:41 PM ET

    YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday that charred remains found in a pit belonged to Tsar Nicholas II's only son and his daughter, exactly 90 years after the Bolsheviks shocked the world by murdering the last Tsar.

  • International Space Station Commander Sergei Volkov (R) is seen with the earth in the background in this view from the helmet camera of fellow spacewalker Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko as the pair work outside the station in this image from NASA TV, July 15, 2008. REUTERS/NASA TV
    Cosmonauts upgrade space station parking spot Tue Jul 15, 7:38 PM ET

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The commander and lead engineer aboard the International Space Station completed a six-hour spacewalk on Tuesday to prepare another parking spot for when the outpost's crew doubles to six.

  • A woman prepares ribbons ahead of December 1st, World Aids Day, in Nairobi, Kenya, November 25, 2004. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna
    Gene variant common in Africa ups HIV risk: study Wed Jul 16, 2:27 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A gene variant that emerged thousands of years ago to protect Africans from malaria may raise their vulnerability to HIV infection but help them live longer once infected, researchers said on Wednesday.

  • Fausto nears hurricane strength off western Mexico Fri Jul 18, 6:25 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Fausto could strengthen to a hurricane off Mexico's Pacific coast later on Friday but was moving farther from land, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

  • Tropical Storm Bertha continues across Atlantic Thu Jul 17, 11:20 AM ET

    MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Bertha continued to trek across the open waters of the Atlantic on Thursday on its way to possibly becoming one of the longest-lived tropical storms on record.