FAIR particle accelerator kick-off event
Nov 07, 2007 |
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Nuclear physicists from around the world are today celebrating the official launch of the particle accelerator FAIR with a gala event and a scientific symposium. The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research is being set up ...
Elpida Develops a 65nm-Process 1-Gigabit DDR2 SDRAM, World's Smallest Chip
Nov 07, 2007 |
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Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), announced today that it has completed development of a 1-Gigabit DDR2 SDRAM based on new 65nm process technology. The 65nm process allows ...
Store-bought freshwater fish contain elevated levels of mercury, arsenic and selenium
Nov 07, 2007 |
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White bass wild-caught and sold commercially contained significantly higher levels of mercury, arsenic and selenium than fish caught near former industrial areas. The University of Pittsburgh study, abstract number 161184, ...
Babies learn to ride robots at UD
Nov 07, 2007 |
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Babies driving robots. It sounds like the theme of a cartoon series but it is actually the focus of important and innovative research being conducted at the University of Delaware that could have significant ...
Human error puts online banking security at risk
Nov 07, 2007 |
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Using an SMS password as an added security measure for internet banking is no guarantee your money is safe, according to a new Queensland University of Technology study which reveals online customers are not protecting their ...
Go ahead, have pie (or gravy) during holidays, expert says
Nov 07, 2007 |
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A Purdue University expert says people who try to deprive themselves of their favorite foods during the holiday season to avoid weight gain are setting themselves up for failure.
Eight-limbed girl stable after surgery
Nov 07, 2007 |
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A 2-year-old Indian girl born with eight limbs was reported in stable condition Wednesday after 27 hours of surgery in which a parasitic twin was removed.
Obesity research boosted by watching hunger in the brain
Nov 07, 2007 |
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Scientists can now measure how full or hungry a mouse feels, thanks to a new technique which uses imaging to reveal how neurons behave in the part of the brain which regulates appetite.
Extracts of catfish caught in polluted waters cause breast cancer cells to multiply
Nov 07, 2007 |
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Exposing estrogen-sensitive breast cancer cells to extracts of channel catfish caught in areas with heavy sewer and industrial waste causes the cells to multiply, according to a University of Pittsburgh study being presented ...
Raising interest rates in Australia the wrong move, says UWS expert
Nov 07, 2007 |
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The decision today to raise interest rates by a quarter of a per cent was an overreaction by the Reserve Bank of Australia to what it perceived as an "overheating" economy, says a University of Western Sydney economist.
Health toll of climate change seen as ethical crisis
Nov 07, 2007 |
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The public health costs of global climate change are likely to be the greatest in those parts of the world that have contributed least to the problem, posing a significant ethical dilemma for the developed ...
Trials of super-fast mobile broadband on track for success
Nov 07, 2007 |
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The first phase in a trial of an evolved version of today's mobile phone radio access technology designed to deliver much higher wireless data rates has proven a success.
Cough medicine fights dyskinesias in Parkinson's
Nov 07, 2007 |
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A cough suppressant and a drug tested as a schizophrenia therapy curb the involuntary movements that are disabling side effects of taking the Parkinson's disease medication levodopa, Portland scientists have found.
Scientists discover first moisture-sensing genes
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Nov 07, 2007 |
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Researchers in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine have discovered the first two genes involved in moisture sensing (hygrosensation). The discovery also reveals a "two-sensor" hygrosensing ...
New research to help fight widespread potato disease
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Nov 07, 2007 |
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Scientists have made a key discovery into the genetics of the bacteria that causes blackleg, an economically damaging disease of potatoes, that could lead to new ways to fight the disease. The researchers at the University ...
