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Employees Bring Bad Moods Home, But They Disappear By Morning

A good night’s sleep may be the remedy for a bad day at work, suggests a new University of Florida study on the unexplored relationship between job satisfaction and the shifting moods of employees. Employees who have str ...

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New method measures emotional quality of daily experience

For Marcel Proust, the taste of a madeleine conjured remembrance of the distant past. In today's multi-tasking, hyper-speed world, it can be a trick to remember what we did yesterday. But a new method of reconstructing the ...

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Fujitsu Launches the Ultimate Storage Accessory for Digital Cameras

Fujitsu Europe today announces the latest edition to its range of MO (magneto-optical) storage products, the DynaMO 1300U2 PHOTO. A combination of a magneto-optical (MO) storage drive and an integrated PCMCIA ...

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IBM Delivers Higher Growth Rate Year-to-Year in External Disk Storage Systems Terabytes Than Major Competitors, Report S

IBM delivered higher external disk storage systems terabyte growth year-to-year in the third quarter than any of the other top six external disk storage vendors according to data released today by IDC [1]. IBM's year-to-year ...

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Replicating an Eel's Nerve Circuitry May Aid Paralyzed People

In a collaboration that blends biology and robotics, researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland are unraveling the circuitry in an eel's spinal cord to help develop a microchip implant that ...

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Quantum memory for light

Realization of quantum memory for light allows the extension of quantum communication far beyond 100 km In the macroscopic classical world, it is possible to copy information from one device into another. We do this e ...

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Conditions On Vast Plain On Mars Could Have Been Suitable For Life

Scientists have long been tantalized by the question of whether life once existed on Mars. Although present conditions on the planet would seem to be inhospitable to life, the data sent back over the past 10 months by NASA's ...

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Mars Rovers Reports Published

The most dramatic findings so far from NASA's twin Mars rovers - telltale evidence for a wet and possibly habitable environment in the arid planet's past - passed rigorous scientific scrutiny for publication in a major research ...

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Toshiba Develops DNA Chip

According to JCN Network, Toshiba Corporation has announced the development of a highly sensitive electrochemical DNA chip that is able to detect DNA at very low concentrations. The new chip integrates complementary met ...

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Nanogen Funding Advances Nanotech Research

Nanogen, Inc., developer of advanced diagnostic products, announced today that it has agreed to provide $300,000 of funding over a two-year period to support the nanotechnology research of Michael Heller, Ph.D., professor ...

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Nanoscopic gold spheres can be reversibly bound to DNA strands reversibly bound to DNA strands

How can individual components be assembled into larger functional units? And how can robot arms, for example, be made to "grab" specific nano-objects-and to release them at the right moment? The field of biotechnology presents ...

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Cassini Huygens at Titans doorstep

The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini Huygens mission to Saturn, which has already delivered stunning images and data of the ringed planet following insertion into the Saturnian system on 1st July this year, is poised to enter a crucial ...

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Philips sets industry record with one billion mobile display shipments

Royal Philips Electronics today announced that it had set an industry record with the shipment of one billion mobile displays. Mobile Display Systems (MDS), a business unit within Philips Semiconductors, customizes display ...

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AMD Announces Broad Enterprise Support For The AMD Opteron Processor

With 25 percent of the Fortune Global 100 now using AMD Opteron processor-based systems, AMD announced broad enterprise support for the AMD Opteron processor, the world’s first 32-bit and 64-bit processor compatible with ...

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Hello, Hello, Earth?

If ET ever phones home, chances are Earthlings wouldn't recognize the call as anything other than random noise or a star. New research shows that highly efficient electromagnetic transmissions from our neighbors in space wou ...

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