Science news articles about 'five stars'

NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft is aiming its largest telescope at five stars in a search for alien planets as it enters its extended mission, called Epoxi.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. has five-star rankings for restaurants and hotels. So why not five-star rankings for nursing homes?...

... see three vacation options. One is a four star hotel far from the beach, a second is a lower ... interesting. The research shows that the phantom decoy, the five-star hotel, causes a shift in the consumer ...

... habañero salsa or like to order Thai food spiced to five stars, you owe a lot to bugs, both the crawling kind and ones you can see only with a microscope. New research shows they ...

... in America Study, also found that if all hospitals performed at the level of five-star rated hospitals, 237,420 ... percent lower chance of dying in a 5-star rated hospital compared to the U.S. hospital ...

... 16,000 nursing homes received the federal government's lowest rating in a new five-star system unveiled Thursday, while 12 percent received the highest ranking possible.

... poorly rated hospitals. Patients having surgery at five-star hospitals spent, on average, more than half ... 15 days) compared to patients having surgery in one-star hospitals (2.72 days). Of the 19 ...

... 51.53% lower chance of dying in a five-star rated hospital compared to the national ... lower chance of experiencing one or more inhospital complications in a five-star rated hospital compared to the U. ...