Cell phone radiation doesn't cause cellular stress, doesn't promote cancer
Oct 05, 2005 |
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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 ...
Hydrogen ions caught in the act of wandering
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Oct 05, 2005 |
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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 ...
Mother-of-Pearl in Highest Resolution
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Oct 05, 2005 |
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Mother-of-pearl, also known as nacre, is not just an iridescent substance whose optical characteristics impress the observer and which is often used for jewellery. It is also an excellent material for working ...
Research advances understanding of how hydrogen fuel is made
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Oct 05, 2005 |
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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 ...
What we Cannot Do Ourselves, we Cannot Understand in Others
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Successful social communication is based, above all, on the ability to understand the actions of other people. But how can we imagine what other people are thinking, or what intentions they have? Psychologists ...
Frenchman, two Americans win 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2005 jointly to Yves Chauvin (Institut Français du Pétrole, Rueil-Malmaison, France), Robert H. Grubbs (California I ...
Study: Tall women are more ambitious
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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.
Cell phone text messages: hackers' weapon
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Computer security researchers are reportedly warning that hackers could take down cellular networks by attacking text-messaging services.
The write stuff?
Oct 05, 2005 |
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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 ...
Alternative to cloning technique does not yield pure clones, scientists report
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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, ...
Scientists find cancer cell defense method
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A Seoul, South Korea, research team says it's identified the defense mechanism used by cancer cells to fight therapeutic chemicals.
Argonne, Notre Dame begin new nuclear theory initiative
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Oct 05, 2005 |
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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.
Freescale demonstrates industry's first combined Bluetooth, UWB wireless functionality
Oct 05, 2005 |
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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 ...
100 years after America's deadliest quake, evidence gone and questions remain
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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 ...
Breast cancer also a male illness
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Researchers in Edmonton, Canada, say men are usually shocked to learn they have breast cancer -- a disease they didn't know was possible for them to get.
