Archive: 08/01/2008
Boston Hurricane Frequency Over Last Millennium Linked To Ocean Surface Temperatures
(PhysOrg.com) -- The frequency of hurricanes striking the Boston area has varied widely over the last millennium, with periods of lowest activity corresponding to cooler surface temperatures in the tropical North Atlantic ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 01, 2008 |
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Siemens builds a lock made of light: Data transfer using quantum cryptography
(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic communication is becoming more secure all over the world. Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Austrian Research Centers (ARC) and Graz University of Technology have joined forces ...
Aug 01, 2008 |
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Probing Question: How do antioxidants work?
Blueberries, pomegranates, green tea and dark chocolate -- these are just some of the antioxidant-rich "superfoods" found in almost any supermarket today. As well as improving our general health, there is growing evidence ...
Aug 01, 2008 |
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August brings the Perseid meteors and a cluster of planets
(PhysOrg.com) -- The annual Perseid meteor shower will peak before dawn on Aug. 12. This year the Perseids will be competing with the nearly full moon at first, but after the moon sets there will be many bright ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 01, 2008 |
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Higher HIV infection estimate shows need for routine screening, more funding for care
Arlington, VA—The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is expected soon to increase the estimate of new HIV infections in the United States by 40 percent. This highlights the need to make HIV testing a routine ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 01, 2008 |
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Size-specific cracking shakes out at the nanoscale
(PhysOrg.com) -- Certain sizes of nanostructures may be more susceptible to failure by fracture than others. That is the result of new research by LLNL's Michael Manley and colleagues from Los Alamos National ...
Aug 01, 2008 |
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Researcher finds that women are speaking up
(PhysOrg.com) -- There's a whole industry of books and seminars that hinge on the premise that women somehow need to be "fixed" when it comes to communication and must change the way they talk and behave to advance their ...
Aug 01, 2008 |
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How chemo kills tumours: research to reduce side effects
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Manchester researchers are investigating exactly how chemotherapy drugs kill cancerous tumours in a bid to reduce side effects and test the effectiveness of safer new agents.
Aug 01, 2008 |
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Unravelling breast cancer susceptibility
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at St Andrews University's Bute Medical School are investigating a vital link between radiation sensitivity and breast cancer susceptibility.
Aug 01, 2008 |
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Eroded telomeres are behind a rare premature aging syndrome
(PhysOrg.com) -- Each time a cell divides, the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes shorten — and when these caps are gone, so are we. Now, by using an unconventional strategy to shorten telomeres in ...
Aug 01, 2008 |
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NASA Nanosatellites Catch Ride On Rocket, Demonstrate Technology
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA will fly two nanosatellites as secondary payloads aboard the SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket planned for launch in August or September.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 01, 2008 |
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Hitachi Shows Technical Feasibility Of Perpendicular Magnetic Recording At 610 Gbit/in2
Hitachi, Ltd. announced today that it has demonstrated the technical feasibility of magnetic recording at 610 Gbit/in2. This considerably exceeds the previously demonstrated capabilities of current perpendicular recording ...
Aug 01, 2008 |
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Tracking down abrupt climate changes
In an article in the scientific magazine Nature Geosciences, the geoscientists Achim Brauer, Peter Dulski and Jörg Negendank, (emeritus Professor) from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Gerald Haug from the DF ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 01, 2008 |
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Cutting the brakes on the immune system
Your immune system may have more in common with a Corvette than you thought. When a virus or bacteria enters a human body, the immune system revs up to fight and expel the invader. Once the invader is gone, the body puts ...
Aug 01, 2008 |
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The brightest, sharpest, fastest X-ray holograms yet
The pinhole camera, a technique known since ancient times, has inspired a futuristic technology for lensless, three-dimensional imaging. Working at both the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the U.S. Department ...
Aug 01, 2008 |
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