Nano silver fights infections
Aug 01, 2005 |
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Silver nanoparticles could help fight hospital-related infections that afflict 2 million patients and lead to 90,000 deaths in the United States each year, experts told UPI's Nano World.
Anti-theft RFID clothing
Aug 01, 2005 |
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Electronic anti-theft devices have been installed in vehicles cars for years -- such as the LoJack, which gained fame during countless TV commercials. Soon, similar technology will be used in the clothes you and your children ...
Killer into cure – using viruses to treat cancer
Aug 01, 2005 |
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The natural ability of viruses to infect and destroy cells is being used by scientists to kill cancerous tumours, according to an article in the August 2005 issue of Microbiology Today, the quarterly magazine of the Society ...
Beijing firm says WiMax no threat to 3G
Aug 01, 2005 |
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WiMax and 3G technologies will complement, not compete with, each other in China's broadband market, according to Analysys International, a Beijing research firm.
Networking: 'Smart highways' emerging
Aug 01, 2005 |
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Commuters cruise down Interstate 95 from New York City to Washington, D.C., bumper to bumper, at a speed of 120 miles per hour -- about a two-hour trip at that speed. Do they worry about collisions? Not at all. They can even ...
'Smart' nanoprobes light up disease
Aug 01, 2005 |
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Quantum dots programmed to glow in presence of enzyme activity Researchers from Rice University's Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN) have developed a "smart" beacon hundreds of times smaller than ...
Engineers chart semiconductors on the scale of atoms
Aug 01, 2005 |
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Spanning fewer than a thousand atoms, the electronic devices on semiconductor chips have become so miniscule they defy most efforts to characterize them. Now for the first time, engineers have demonstrated a way to image ...
How Butterflies Fly Thousands Of Miles Without Getting Lost Revealed By Researchers
Aug 01, 2005 |
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While "navigation" systems in automobiles are a fairly new (and still costly) innovation, monarch butterflies have managed for millennia to navigate their way for a distance of some 3000 miles (4800 kilometers) ...
E-waste becoming a health hazard
Aug 01, 2005 |
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"E-trash" is creating an increasing health hazard across the nation, with the U.S. Senate trying to find a national solution.
View from Top: Biz VoIP gains momentum
Aug 01, 2005 |
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Driven by the pressures to reduce capital expenditures and increase communication features and functionality, businesses are rapidly embracing the adoption of Voice over Internet Protocol phone services to unify corporate ...
Bacteria, clams thrive in very cold water
Aug 01, 2005 |
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The discovery this year of bacteria on the seabed below near-freezing Antarctica waters may be more evidence life is possible on other planets.
Cassini Finds an Active, Watery World at Saturn's Enceladus
Aug 01, 2005 |
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Saturn's tiny icy moon Enceladus, which ought to be cold and dead, instead displays evidence for active ice volcanism.
Climate Is Regulated By Water
Aug 01, 2005 |
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About one hundred years ago, S. Arrhenius brought forward a hypothesis that the atmospheric temperature of at the surface of the Earth was increasing under the influence of the glasshouse effect created by carbonic acid gas. ...
U.S. scientific papers slip
Aug 01, 2005 |
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If current trends continue, the Asia Pacific region might outstrip the United States in scientific papers published by 2011.
German inventors more active in 2004
Aug 01, 2005 |
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The number of inventions in Germany significantly increased last year, the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported Monday.
