In 2002, a test by Sandia labs in the US found that a similar dowsing rod device, called the Mole detector, did not work and performed "no better than a random selection process".
In April 2012, a study by scientists at the US Geological Survey of the interior of the US found that events of magnitude 3 or greater had "abruptly increased in 2009" from 1.2 per year in the previous 50 years to more than 25 per year - although a number of gas and oil extraction methods may be implicated in the rise.
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Then, he asked how many of us had found that totally groovy happy experience when we'd been shopping.
Researchers from the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, US, found that the hormone caused a drop in lung function in asthmatics.
In their study, the US researchers found that animals worked harder to get doses of Nocaine than to receive a saline solution, but less hard than they did to obtain doses of cocaine.
Mr. FEMI FANI-KAYODE (Nigerian Presidential Spokesman): If we had evidence to suggest that that was the case, if they would forward that evidence to us and we found that evidence convincing and credible, I assure you we would take the appropriate action.
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The brief war between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia served as a reminder to the rest of the Soviet Union that Russia remained the regional hegemon, and gave notice that the US would not extend meaningful support to pro-US governments that found themselves in confrontation with Russia.
The research, which covered a number of European countries and the US, also found that children who were bullied by their siblings were more likely to be victims as well.
It reminds us that the situation that we found in Haiti long before that earthquake struck called for the type of action that President Obama and several of his predecessors -- President Bush and President Clinton -- have been attuned to.
US-based scientists found that the last four pandemics all occurred after La Nina events, which bring cool waters to the surface of the eastern Pacific.
In a separate study, Deloitte found that US supermarket group Roundy's was the world's fastest growing retailer between 1999 and 2004, averaging 57% compound annual growth.
Underscoring the risk, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) found that approximately 27 percent of the 42, 854 agency-reported security incidents during the 2011 fiscal year involved malicious code.
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Indeed, researchers at Iowa State University and the US Department of Agriculture found that in Bt-corn the level of fumonisin is reduced by as much as 80% compared to conventional corn.
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For instance, two recent studies by the National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Agriculture found that most soda tax proposals significantly overstate the amount of weight loss they would generate.
And then there was the fact that many US networks use a different technology to that found in Europe and most of the rest of the world.
He added that such towns offer a glimpse of US history that cannot be found elsewhere.
These men and women remind us that heroism is found not only on the fields of battle.
In January, an independent US report into the blast found that while BP emphasised personal safety, it was weak on process safety.
ComScore found that the US smartphone field in September was virtually unchanged from where it was in August, even down to smaller players like Symbian and Windows Phone.
Armed with data from 619, 397 US residents, the researchers found that entrepreneurial personalities were most prevalent in the Western and Southern states, with the District of Columbia, Colorado and Utah scoring highest.
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Why did you tell us that it was March 10th, then, that you found out?
We have found that on average every customer contacts us at one point, so we place a lot of value on that interaction.
So what is it that gold and silver have just found out about Romney that the rest of us are missing?
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Beyond obvious mood spoilers such as poor hygiene and bad breath, we each have a distinct natural scent that appears to guide us toward choosing a partner with compatible DNA. Scientists have found that women prefer the scents of men with a complementary set of genes that code for the immune system.
We were greeted warmly in each town, with a certain ceremony and solicitousness that I found charming, and every night the audience gave us a standing ovation that made all our efforts seem worthwhile.
One US research company (Alpha Wise) found that the tablet install base reduced PC usage by 37 percent in 2011.
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Our investigation found that Southwest Airlines, US Airways, Jet Blue and Frontier all pay Aeroman in El Salvador to fix up some of their aircraft.
Nagel has, I think, been led astray by a big survivorship bias: the evolutionary lineage that led to us always found a viable mutation, ergo one must, it seems, always be available.
Ms de Cabo said Spanish authorities are still trying to convince a US judge that the American company that found the wreck, Florida-based Odyssey Marine Exploration, should also pay Spain's legal costs.
It is a phenomenon said to be part of the demise last year of Jessops and Comet, and a survey by agency Foolproof found that 24% of us admitted to doing it in the run-up to last Christmas.
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