Archive: 04/04/2007
Are SMBs Ready for Cisco's Swiss Army Knife of Connectivity?
It remains to be seen whether small businesses really need Cisco's new product package that includes VOIP, LAN switching, routing, VPN, firewall and wireless LAN.
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Major clinical breast cancer study begins
U.S. medical researchers have found combining two drugs targeted against HER2-positive breast cancer might offer more benefit than just using one.
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Study links propensity toward worry to early death
As reported in the May issue of Psychological Science, men who increased over time in neuroticism died earlier, mostly from cancer and heart disease.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Seeking the Next Kevlar: Researchers Fine Tune Nanotube/Nylon Composite Using Carbon Spacers
A team of University of Pennsylvania and Rice University researchers have added a significant new step to the creation of materials fortified by single-walled carbon nanotubes, or SWNTs, resulting in a nylon polymer composite ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Self-regulation abilities, beyond intelligence, play major role in early achievement
Although intelligence is generally thought to play a key role in children's early academic achievement, aspects of children's self-regulation abilities -- including the ability to alternately shift and focus attention and ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Thirty-Two Mile Cable Installed for First Deep-Sea Observatory
Oceanographers have completed an important step in constructing the first deep-sea observatory off the continental United States. Workers in the multi-institution effort laid 32 miles (52 kilometers) of cable ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Dairy, Fruits and Veggies May Help Smokers Quit
Milk does the body good -- and may help smokers break the habit, say researchers at Duke University Medical Center.
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Fascinating Spider Silk
Stronger than steel and more elastic than rubber: spider silk is unsurpassed in its expandability, resistance to tearing, and toughness. Spider silk would be an ideal material for a large variety of medical and technical ...
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Samsung Launches SpinPoint S166 HDD Series
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, today announced its new SpinPoint S166 Series of ultra silent and high-speed hard disk drives. The ...
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Five-legged frogs baffle British
Scientists in England are trying to determine why some frogs in a river in Peterborough have five legs, the first known occurrence in Britain.
Biology /
Apr 04, 2007 |
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New organ donor law raise ethics concerns
A model law updating U.S. organ donation procedures that is being circulated among states is raising ethics concerns about dying patients' rights and wishes.
Apr 04, 2007 |
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New wireless technology to be developed
A U.S. research team has been awarded a $3.5 million government grant to develop a new portable wireless communications technology.
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Seats helped ancient greeks hear from back row
As the ancient Greeks were placing the last few stones on the magnificent theater at Epidaurus in the fourth century B.C., they couldn’t have known that they had unwittingly created a sophisticated acoustic ...
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Chemists develop new method for synthesizing anti-cancer flavonoids
Flavonoids. You’ve heard of them -- the good-for-your-health compounds found in plants that we enjoy in red wine, dark chocolate, green tea and citrus fruits. Mother Nature is an ace at making them, producing different ones ...
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Taking nature’s cue for cheaper solar power
Solar cell technology developed by the University’s Nanomaterials Research Centre will enable New Zealanders to generate electricity from sunlight at a 10th of the cost of current silicon-based photo-electric ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 04, 2007 |
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