Fujitsu Develops New Technology that Ensures Authenticity of Digital Video Clips
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Jul 03, 2008 |
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Fujitsu Laboratories announced today the development of the world's first technology that makes it possible to ensure that digital video data recorded over long time periods and then stored and managed in ...
Neither Rain Nor Sleet Will Stop NASA's Ares Rockets
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 03, 2008 |
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Barry Roberts wants to help build a better rocket…one that can fly despite record low temperatures, one that hail and rain can’t stop.
New study points to agriculture in frog sexual abnormalities
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Jul 03, 2008 |
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A farm irrigation canal would seem a healthier place for toads than a ditch by a supermarket parking lot. But University of Florida scientists have found the opposite is true. In a study with wide implications for a longstanding ...
Blood vessel inhibitor shows promise against metastatic thyroid cancer
Jul 03, 2008 |
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Thyroid cancer that has spread to distant sites has a poor prognosis, but an experimental drug that inhibits tumor blood vessel formation can slow disease progression in some patients, a research team led by investigators ...
Organizing an Earth Systems Science Agency
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 03, 2008 |
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In an article published today in the journal Science, a group of former senior federal officials call for the establishment of an independent Earth Systems Science Agency (ESSA) to meet the unprecedented environmental and ec ...
Scientists develop a mouse model of sudden infant death syndrome
Jul 03, 2008 |
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is a condition that unexpectedly and unexplainably takes the lives of seemingly healthy babies aged between a month and a year. Now researchers of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory ...
Scientists set out to measure how we perceive naturalness
Jul 03, 2008 |
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Natural products are highly valued by consumers yet their properties have been difficult to reproduce fully in synthetic materials, placing a drain on our limited natural resources. Until now ...
Phoenix to Bake Ice-Rich Sample Next Week
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 03, 2008 |
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The next sample delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA) will be ice-rich.
Circulating tumor cells can reveal genetic signature of dangerous lung cancers
Jul 03, 2008 |
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Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have shown that an MGH-developed, microchip-based device that detects and analyzes tumor cells in the bloodstream can be used to determine the genetic signature of lung tumors, ...
IBM Technology to Protect Customer Data in the Call Center Industry
Jul 03, 2008 |
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Researchers at IBM's India Research Laboratory have developed advanced data masking technology that helps call centers protect critical data without disrupting customer service or business operations. As IBM ...
Researchers identify tumor suppressor that manages cellular cleaning and recycling proceses
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Jul 03, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have identified a specific tumor suppressor that manages membrane traffic routes for cellular cleaning and recycling.
New tracking system boosts pilot safety
Jul 03, 2008 |
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Pilots will no longer be out of sight as they fly cross-country thanks to a new tracking system developed by Massey University mechatronics graduate and a former staff member.
Instances of mass die-offs in wild lions precipitated by extreme climate change
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Jul 03, 2008 |
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An international research team has published the first clear example of how climate extremes can create conditions in which diseases that are normally tolerated singly may converge and bring about mass die-offs in wildlife.
Nanostructures improve bone response to titanium implants
Jul 03, 2008 |
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Titanium implants were successfully introduced by P.-I. Brånemark and co-workers in 1969 for the rehabilitation of edentulous jaws. After 40 years of research and development, titanium is currently the most frequently used ...
Extended cyclone relief efforts aided from space
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 03, 2008 |
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Earth observation satellites have provided vital information to relief workers in Myanmar throughout a particularly long crisis response window following the devastating Cyclone Nargis that hit the country ...
