Archive: 07/03/2007
Consumption of small amounts of dark chocolate associated with reduction in blood pressure
Eating about 30 calories a day of dark chocolate was associated with a lowering of blood pressure, without weight gain or other adverse effects, according to a study in the July 4 issue of JAMA.
Jul 03, 2007 |
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Scientists May Not Be Very Religious, but Science May Not Be to Blame
Did God make scientists? Most of them don't think so.
Jul 03, 2007 |
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Silicon chip beams light through a liquid-core waveguide to detect one particle at a time
By guiding light through liquid-filled channels smaller than a human hair, researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Brigham Young University have succeeded in building a silicon chip that can detect tiny ...
Jul 03, 2007 |
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ILC's High-Energy Collisions Require Accurate Energy Measurements
The International Linear Collider (ILC) collaboration proposes to crash electron and positron beams together with a total energy of 500 GeV (billion electron volts). The actual energy of each beam will vary ...
Jul 03, 2007 |
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Fujitsu Introduces World's Highest Capacity 2.5'' External HDD
Fujitsu today launched its new travel-ready and world’s highest capacity 2.5” External Hard Disk Drive (HDD) for the U.S. market. Featuring up to 300GB of storage space in a sleek, compact design, the new External HDDs are ...
Jul 03, 2007 |
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Study finds wives have greater power in marriage problem-solving behavior
Men may still have more power in the workplace, but apparently women really are "the boss" at home. That's according to a new study by a team of Iowa State University researchers.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 03, 2007 |
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How to Manage Floating Fluids in Space
Six months is a long time to be away from home. But Astronaut Sunita Williams had plenty of work to keep her busy during her stay on the International Space Station, including a group of experiments she dubbed ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 03, 2007 |
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Harnessing the power of the immune system to fight cancer
Teaching the body's own immune system to seek out and destroy cancerous tumours represents a promising way to fight a disease that kills more than 70,000 Canadians a year.
Jul 03, 2007 |
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Original or fake?
Even for art historians, it can be difficult to distinguish original works of art from fakes. Research scientists now screen the pictures with infrared radiation. This shows up the watermarks of the paper ...
Jul 03, 2007 |
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Happy, sad, angry or astonished?
How do people respond when they walk past an advertising poster? Do they stop and turn around to look at it with interest or march angrily past? A new system of detailed facial analysis can recognize a person’s ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 03, 2007 |
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ASUS Announces World's First Hardware Based Real-time Overclocking Device
ASUS today introduced the new OC gear as the world's first hardware based real-time overclocking device for graphics cards. The ASUS OC gear will be bundled with the ASUS EN8600GT OC GEAR/HTDP/256M which is ...
Jul 03, 2007 |
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Blood clotting protein may inhibit spinal cord regeneration
Fibrinogen, a blood-clotting protein found in circulating blood, has been found to inhibit the growth of central nervous system neuronal cells, a process that is necessary for the regeneration of the spinal ...
Jul 03, 2007 |
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Researchers Hope to Unlock Capabilities of Carbon Nanotubes
In a three-year project that researchers say could revolutionize the electronics industry, engineers at The University of Texas at Dallas are attempting to establish a standard means for tapping the potential ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 03, 2007 |
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Device could put disease detection in the palm of a hand
Lydia Sohn, associate professor of mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley, took her show on the road last week with a demonstration of her handheld nanocytometer at a "science fair" for leaders of Congress ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 03, 2007 |
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Motorola Z8 Makes Its Retail Debut
The “media monster” has landed. Motorola today announces the immediate availability of the MOTO Z8 kick-slider handset in Spain, with other parts of Europe and Asia to follow. The Z8, a complete entertainment ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 03, 2007 |
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