Archive: 10/05/2005
EarthLink tabbed for Philly WiFi project
Earthlink has been picked to lead the build out of an ambitious city-wide WiFi network in Philadelphia.
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Study: Neural stem cells are long-lived
New York University researchers have determined immature stem cells that proliferate in mice to form brain tissue are long-lived.
Oct 05, 2005 |
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Cell phone radiation doesn't cause cellular stress, doesn't promote cancer
Weighing in on the debate about whether cell phones have adverse health effects, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that the electromagnetic radiation produced by ...
Oct 05, 2005 |
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100 years after America's deadliest quake, evidence gone and questions remain
A century after the deadliest earthquake in American history leveled San Francisco, key events in its aftermath remain shrouded in mystery. Kevin Starr, professor of history at the University of Southern California and California ...
Oct 05, 2005 |
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Stanford to unveil newly renovated hub for nanotech research
Stanford nanotechnology researchers and technology industry leaders will dedicate the latest nanotechnology research facility on campus—the newly renovated Stanford Nanocharacterization Laboratory (SNL)—on Oct. 5 from 3 to ...
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The World’s Smallest Fountain Pen?
The miniscule tip on an atomic-force microscope (AFM) helps researchers both "see" and manipulate the nanoscale environment. Now, engineers have created two novel technologies that enable such tips to write ...
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Alternative to cloning technique does not yield pure clones, scientists report
When is a clone not a clone? According to new research from Rockefeller University’s Peter Mombaerts, creating mice by a two-step transfer of DNA does not reliably produce animals that are genetic duplicates of an original, ...
Oct 05, 2005 |
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Research advances understanding of how hydrogen fuel is made
Oxygen may be necessary for life, but it sure gets in the way of making hydrogen fuel cheaply and abundantly from a family of enzymes present in many microorganisms. Blocking oxygen’s path to an enzyme’s production ...
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Oct 05, 2005 |
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Freescale demonstrates industry's first combined Bluetooth, UWB wireless functionality
Combining two of the most promising wireless technologies available today, Freescale Semiconductor is hosting the industry's first demonstration of high data rate Ultra-Wideband (UWB) silicon operating under existing Bluetooth ...
Oct 05, 2005 |
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Large scale flu virus sequencing completed
Scientists at the Institute for Genomic Research in Maryland report completing the first large-scale project to sequence the influenza virus.
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Argonne, Notre Dame begin new nuclear theory initiative
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Notre Dame have begun a new collaborative project to explore and explain the physics of rare nuclear isotopes.
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Oct 05, 2005 |
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Hydrogen ions caught in the act of wandering
Erik T.J. Nibbering of the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) and colleagues report for the first time experimental evidence of the motions of hydrogen ions (protons, H+) from acids ...
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Oct 05, 2005 |
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Study: Tall women are more ambitious
Two Scottish researchers say they've determined tall women are more ambitious in their careers and less inclined to start a family than shorter women.
Oct 05, 2005 |
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The write stuff?
Imagine being able to communicate in your own handwriting with your mobile phone, PDA, laptop or PC without any cables. The VPen does just that. It looks like a space age pen, but works like a mouse, pen, keyboard ...
Oct 05, 2005 |
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Nanotech processing 'greener' than oil refining, study
Using a method for assessing the premiums that companies pay for insurance, a team of scientists and insurance experts have concluded that the manufacturing processes for five, near-market nanomaterials -- including quantum ...
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