Intel's Embedded Portfolio Goes Quad-core
Apr 04, 2007 |
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As Intel reaches the 30-year anniversary of its embedded business, it brings quad-core chips into the mix and offers a new telecom server.
Arctic sea ice narrowly missed record low in winter 2007, says University of Colorado team
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 04, 2007 |
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The maximum extent of Arctic sea ice in winter 2007 was the second lowest on satellite record, narrowly missing the 2006 record, according to a team of University of Colorado at Boulder researchers.
New organ donor law raise ethics concerns
Apr 04, 2007 |
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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.
Fighting for their attention
Biology /
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Mating strategies are straightforward in bottlenose dolphins, or are they? Much of the work carried on male-female relationships in that species to date show that males tend to coerce females who are left with ...
In young mice, gregariousness seems to reside in the genes
Biology /
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Beyond the lineage of primates, according to scientific gospel, social behavior is dictated primarily by competition for resources such as food, territory and reproduction.
Mechanism of nicotine's learning effects explored
Apr 04, 2007 |
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While nicotine is highly addictive, researchers have also shown the drug to enhance learning and memory—a property that has launched efforts to develop nicotine-like drugs to treat cognitive deficits in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s ...
Middle Class Workers Feeling the Valley's Squeeze
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Not only did the middle class of Silicon Valley weather the toughest times during the dot-com bust, they've also had the hardest time recovering, finds a report issued Mar. 29 by Working Partnerships USA, an economic research ...
New study tracks the spread of bird flu between farms
Apr 04, 2007 |
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A new way of understanding how highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) spreads among farm birds is published today in PLoS ONE. The study could help analyse the success of different control measures in the event of future ...
Dairy, Fruits and Veggies May Help Smokers Quit
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Milk does the body good -- and may help smokers break the habit, say researchers at Duke University Medical Center.
Major clinical breast cancer study begins
Apr 04, 2007 |
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U.S. medical researchers have found combining two drugs targeted against HER2-positive breast cancer might offer more benefit than just using one.
Slow but sure -- Burned forest lands regenerate naturally
Biology /
Apr 04, 2007 |
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A new study of forest lands that burned in the 1990s in northern California and southwestern Oregon has concluded there is a "fair to excellent" chance that an adequate level of conifers will regenerate naturally, in sites ...
Teens to help dig up mastodon bones
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 04, 2007 |
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High school students are being recruited by Chicago's Field Museum to help excavate a mastodon discovered in Wayne, Ill.
Are SMBs Ready for Cisco's Swiss Army Knife of Connectivity?
Apr 04, 2007 |
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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.
New Apps Bolster Cisco VOIP System for SMBs
Apr 04, 2007 |
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IPcelerate will bolster Cisco's new UC 500 small-business IP telephony system when it launches four VOIP application packages aimed at specific small vertical businesses.
Australian tissue bank begins operations
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Australia's new Wesley Research Institute Tissue Bank began accepting cancer tissue this week -- the first tissue bank of its kind in Queensland.
