Archive: 11/01/2005
Halloween surprise: The Great Galactic Black Widow
Unsuspecting prey be warned! Hiding in the darkest corner of the constellation Circinus is a gigantic black widow spider waiting for its next meal. For decades, this galactic creepy crawler has remained lar ...
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Bacteria build walls to withstand antibiotics
Antibiotic resistant bacteria, which are proliferating in hospitals and causing major headaches for physicians, cheat death by finding ways to fortify their cell walls against the deadly drugs. The question is: how? New res ...
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Mathematicians get a handle on centuries old shape
It has been almost 230 years since French general and mathematician Jean Meusnier's study of soap films - the same kind used by children today to blow bubbles -- led to one of the fundamental mathematical ...
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One of the Most Massive Stars in our Galaxy Has a Hot Partner
Scientists using NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer satellite made the first direct detection of a companion star of Eta Carinae. Eta Carinae is one of the most massive and unusual stars in the ...
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Researchers unveil reliable new approach to cancer drug delivery
Prostate, breast and other cancer patients may be offered a new, stauncher targeted drug delivery system to treat their diseases in the next decade. Using atomic force microscopy and computer simulations, res ...
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Intel Launches Next Wave Of Multi-Core Server Platforms
Originally planned for early 2006, Intel Corporation’s first dual-core, hyper-threaded processors for servers with four or more processors started shipping today. The processors deliver record levels of performance and are ...
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Worries rise over telecom mergers
The Federal Communications Commission's decision Monday to allow some of the biggest telecommunications groups in the United States to band together may have surprised few, but some industry analysts are already questioning ...
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Briefs: Cingular offers improved BlackBerry phone
Cingular Wireless said Tuesday it is offering the latest BlackBerry phone from Nov. 21.
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Neurons change in learning-memory process
University of Texas-Austin neuroscientists say they have observed large-scale changes across neuron dendrites during learning and memory processing.
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Briefs: Sprint service in Fla. almost recovered
Sprint Nextel said Tuesday it has nearly completed restoration of its networks in south Florida.
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IBM Unveils New Dual-Core X3 Servers
IBM is upgrading its X3 Architecture-based family of servers with the introduction today of new, dual-core systems based on the dual-core Intel Xeon processor 7000 sequence, formerly code named "Paxville MP." X3 Architecture-based ...
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Monkey Math Machinery is Like Humans'
Monkeys have a semantic perception of numbers that is like humans’ and which is independent of language, Duke University cognitive neuroscientists have discovered. They said their findings demonstrate that the neural mechanism ...
Nov 01, 2005 |
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Researchers target silicon chips for biomolecular devices
Arizona State University researchers in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering are key contributors to an $11.7 million, multicollaborative Defense Advanced Research Project Agency research project developing novel hybrid ...
Nov 01, 2005 |
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Is there life on Mars?
An international team of scientists including the University of Leeds' Liane Benning have successfully trialled techniques to search for life on Mars. Their findings - microbes deep within ice-filled volcanic tubes - reveal ...
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Briefs: Neoware boosts 'thin' Africa sales force
U.S. software company Neoware is expanding its sales force in South Africa in order to capture a greater share of the thin-client market in the area.
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