Archive: 03/07/2007
NASA's astronaut Lisa Nowak fired a month after attempted kidnapping
U.S. Navy Capt. Lisa Nowak, 43, who drove 900 miles in a diaper to confront a love rival has been fired a month after being arrested.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 07, 2007 |
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Hundreds die from deadly bacteria in Israel
Doctors said an antibiotic-resistant bacterium known as Klebsiella pneumoniae has killed as many as 200 patients in hospitals across Israel.
Mar 07, 2007 |
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Study takes next step -- Why women suffer more knee injuries
Female athletes are up to eight times more likely to suffer knee injuries during their careers than males, and now researchers may be closer to understanding why.
Mar 07, 2007 |
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Prototype Space Probe Prepares to Explore Earth's Deepest Sinkhole
Scientists return this week to the world's deepest known sinkhole, Cenote Zacatón in Mexico, to resume tests of a NASA-funded robot called DEPTHX, designed to survey and explore for life in one of Earth's most ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 07, 2007 |
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No Carrier Necessary: This Drug Delivers Itself
The problem of efficiently delivering drugs, especially those that are hydrophobic or water-repellant, to tumors or other disease sites has long challenged scientists to develop innovative delivery systems ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 07, 2007 |
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Women are best at being buddies
A four-year study by sociologists at The University of Manchester has found that women are much more likely than men to make deep and lasting friendships. The investigation into social networks by the University's Research Cen ...
Mar 07, 2007 |
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Scientists Uncover Link Between Ocean's Chemical Processes and Microscopic Floating Plants
Scientists have discovered that increased levels of ocean acidity and carbon dioxide concentrations have resulted in unexpected changes in oceanic chemical processes. Their research results are published in ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 07, 2007 |
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Watery Nanoparticles Deliver Anticancer Therapy
Ultrafine nanoparticles made of a lacy web of polymer and tiny pockets of water may prove to be an ideal vehicle for delivering light-activated drugs to tumors. Preliminary experiments, published in the journal Angewandte Ch ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 07, 2007 |
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Magnetic Nanocrystals Carry Tumor-Killing Drugs
Imagine using a focused magnetic field to concentrate anticancer drugs in and around tumors, and then turning off the magnetic field so that the drugs then leave the body. That possiblity may become a reality as a result ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 07, 2007 |
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Samsung Debuts First Ultra-Mobile PC Optimized For Windows Vista
Samsung Electronics announces its newest Ultra- Mobile PC (UMPC) model, the Q1P for Windows Vista, which is Samsung's first UMPC to qualify for Windows Vista certification.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 07, 2007 |
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NASA Completes Key Review of Orion Spacecraft
NASA has established a requirements baseline for the Orion crew exploration vehicle, bringing America's next human spacecraft a step closer to construction.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 07, 2007 |
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Scientists find genes involved in the battle between Hessian flies and wheat
Wheat has ways to battle the tiny, red wormlike insects that nibble on the plant's leaves and can destroy crops worldwide, but the Hessian fly larvae that survive eventually evolve methods to overcome plant ...
Biology /
Mar 07, 2007 |
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Abandoning net neutrality discourages improvements in service
Charging online content providers such as Yahoo! and Google for preferential access to the customers of Internet service providers might not be in the best interest of the millions of Americans, despite claims to the contrary, ...
Mar 07, 2007 |
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Paving the Way for Crystal Growth
In order to study the properties of LBCO superconductors, scientists need to produce large, single crystals of the material - a difficult task that wasn't possible until recently. At the state-of-the-art crystal ...
Mar 07, 2007 |
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Looking for 'Stripes' in High-Tc superconductors
In LBCO, as in all materials, negatively charged electrons repel one another. But by trying to stay as far apart as possible, each individual electron is confined to a limited space, which costs energy. To ...
Mar 07, 2007 |
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