Archive: 07/03/2006
Station to Pass Over Washington, D.C. This July 4th
This year, the hundreds of thousands of people gathered to watch fireworks on Washington's National Mall will see one extra light in the sky. If clouds don't obscure it, the International Space Station will ...
Jul 03, 2006 |
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Temperature-Sensitive Nanoparticles Open New Avenues for Drug Delivery
Many types of nanoparticles can cross the cell membrane and deliver their therapeutic payload into tumor cells. In some instances, however, nanoparticles can become trapped inside endosomes, distinct compartments within a ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 03, 2006 |
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Making a safer bang for the buck
Four ground-breaking families of environmentally friendly primary explosives under development at Los Alamos National Laboratory are featured this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Jul 03, 2006 |
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Two Minn. residents reach North Pole on foot
Two Minnesota residents have become the first Arctic explorers to reach the North Pole on foot during summer.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 03, 2006 |
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Fight over bringing Aussie carp to Britain
A private fishery in England is being inundated with letters and e-mails from anglers over plans to stock an 11-acre lake with imported Australian carp.
Biology /
Jul 03, 2006 |
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Millicom declines sale to China Mobile
Millicom International Cellular's proposed sale to China Mobile appeared to be off Monday as Millicom reported an unsatisfactory due-diligence report.
Jul 03, 2006 |
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Over 2M .eu Internet addresses registered
Over two million Internet addresses ending with ".eu" have been registered since the domain was launched this April.
Jul 03, 2006 |
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Marijuana battle moves to San Francisco
Controversy has erupted over plans to open a medical marijuana establishment on San Francisco's Fishermen's Wharf, the New York Times reports.
Jul 03, 2006 |
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Consumers cool to wireless image messaging
A pair of polls released this weekend show a relatively slow consumer response to the latest advanced wireless messaging features.
Jul 03, 2006 |
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In Brief: Brazil's Vivo moving toward 3G wireless
Brazil's largest cell-phone operator Vivo is establishing a GSM network to help pave the way to third-generation (3G) wireless services.
Jul 03, 2006 |
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Internet promoting pseudo-epidemics?
You see the signs promoting cancer screening nearly everywhere you go these days -- airports, bus stations and online. The ads promote cancer screening as a form of preventive medicine, and almost always refer you to an Internet ...
Jul 03, 2006 |
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In Brief: Motorola completes auto electronics sale
Motorola has completed the $1 billion sale of its automotive electronics business to Germany's Continental AG.
Jul 03, 2006 |
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Engineers Restart Hubble Camera
NASA engineers successfully activated the Advanced Camera for Surveys at 9:12 a.m. EDT Friday aboard the agency's Hubble Space Telescope. Checkout was completed at 10:20 a.m. EDT with science observations scheduled ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 03, 2006 |
3.9 / 5 (10) |
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Seeing is believing -- researchers explain 'x-ray specs' effect
An annual exhibition showcasing the best of UK science and technology this year includes a novel optical effect pioneered by physicists at Imperial College London.
Jul 03, 2006 |
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'Rough Guide to Mars' – scientists offer virtual reality tours of the surface of Mars
The dramatic landscapes of Mars will be brought to life at this week's Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, thanks to work carried out by a team of geologists and engineers at Imperial, University College ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 03, 2006 |
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