Samsung Unveils Revolutionary Ultra Smart F700
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 08, 2007 |
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Samsung today announced a new addition to its Ultra portfolio with the introduction of Ultra Smart F700. This revolutionary mobile phone will be showcased at 3GSM World Congress, the largest telecommunications ...
Robotic exoskeleton replaces muscle work
Feb 08, 2007 |
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A robotic exoskeleton controlled by the wearer's own nervous system could help users regain limb function, which is encouraging news for people with partial nervous system impairment, say University of Michigan researchers.
Scientists identify 'missing link' in process leading to Alzheimer's disease
Feb 08, 2007 |
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Scientists at the University of Virginia have identified what appears to be a major missing link in the process that destroys nerve cells in Alzheimer's disease, an incurable disease that slowly destroys memory and cognitive ...
Major population centers may be at risk; building codes must reflect new seismic data
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 08, 2007 |
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Earthquakes in stable continental regions lack sufficient understanding to prepare local populations for future seismic activity, according to a paper published in the February issue of the Bulletin of the Seismological So ...
Probing Question: Can Alzheimer's disease be prevented?
Feb 08, 2007 |
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Most of us have had the experience of forgetting where we've parked our car or have struggled to recall an acquaintance's name. But once we hit our 50s, said James R. Connor, these incidents might cause us to worry that we're ...
The multi-tasking reovirus
Feb 08, 2007 |
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In the past couple of years, researchers at Oncolytics Biotech have been developing a harmless virus as a potent cancer killer, but they have also been accumulating data that suggests in addition to directly killing tumor ...
Space scientists ponder which Jupiter moon will reveal the most
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 08, 2007 |
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Yogi Berra supposedly suggested that when you come to a fork in the road, you are supposed to take it. That's just what planetary scientists studying the rich data set from the Galileo Mission to the outer solar system are ...
Common gene version optimizes thinking -- but with a possible downside
Feb 08, 2007 |
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Most people inherit a version of a gene that optimizes their brain's thinking circuitry, yet also appears to increase risk for schizophrenia, a severe mental illness marked by impaired thinking, scientists at the National ...
2006 Was Earth's Fifth Warmest Year
Feb 08, 2007 |
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Climatologists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City have found that 2006 was the fifth warmest year in the past century.
Newborn brains grow vision and movement regions first
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The regions of the brain that control vision and other sensory information grow dramatically in the first few months following birth, while the area that controls abstract thought experiences very little growth during the ...
Eat well, get fit, stop smoking — prevent cancer
Feb 08, 2007 |
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If you wanted to start today to reduce your chances of getting cancer, what would you have to do? Lose excess weight, get more exercise, eat a healthy diet and quit smoking.
Apple's bid to end music piracy protection may signal end to copyright system
Feb 08, 2007 |
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Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple Computers, has issued a challenge to the music industry, saying Apple would support an open online music marketplace if the four-largest music companies would drop the use of digital-rights ...
Microsurgery and Super Glue show how antennae aid moth navigation
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Feb 08, 2007 |
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Two-winged insects such as houseflies and mosquitoes that are active during the light of day rely on their vision for flight control, but they also get help from organs called halteres, which grow where a second set of wings ...
New microfabrication technology announced
Feb 08, 2007 |
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U.S. scientists have created a new method of rapidly engineering complex micro-scale patterns and 3D microstructures from biocompatible proteins.
Love, not money, inspires immigrants to become U.S. citizens
Feb 08, 2007 |
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Love, more than money, inspires legal immigrants to go through the naturalization process to become American citizens, according to new research from UC Irvine.
