Archive: 11/08/2007
Which is the most talkative gender? It all depends
A Gallup poll recently confirmed that men and women both believe that it is women who are most likely to possess the gift of gab. Some even believe that women are biologically built for conversation. This widespread belief ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 08, 2007 |
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FDA OKs silver-coated breathing tube
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved for marketing a breathing tube coated with silver to be used by patients on ventilators.
Nov 08, 2007 |
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Scientists develop non-invasive method to track nerve-cell development in live human brain
A team of scientists including researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have identified and validated the first biomarker that permits neural stem and progenitor cells (NPCs) to be tracked, non-invasively, in the ...
Nov 08, 2007 |
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ANITA is Back in Business
The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Array (ANITA)—that plucky probe that visited SLAC last year before taking to the skies of Antarctica—is back in action.
Nov 08, 2007 |
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Spacewalk Set for Tomorrow
The International Space Station’s crew enjoyed a day off duty Tuesday before starting a heavy schedule of spacewalks and robotics activities, which kick off with a spacewalk by Commander Peggy Whitson and ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 08, 2007 |
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Mining Tiny Diamonds for Drug Delivery
Northwestern University researchers have shown that nanodiamonds are effective at delivering chemotherapy drugs to cells without the negative effects associated with current drug delivery agents. Their study, published in ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 08, 2007 |
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Remote Magnetic Field Triggers Nanoparticle Drug Release
Magnetic nanoparticles heated by a remote magnetic field have the potential to release multiple anticancer drugs on demand at the site of a tumor, according to a study published in the journal Advanced Materials. Moreover, say th ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 08, 2007 |
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Digital disruption dire for traditional advertising
The advertising industry is facing more upheaval in the next five years than in the previous half century, according to a new report. “The End of Advertising as We Know It" from IBM Global Business Services shows more-empowered ...
Nov 08, 2007 |
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Smile, protons, you're on camera
Radioactivity, discovered more than 100 years ago and studied by physicists ever since, would seem to be a relatively closed subject in science. However, since the 1960s, the pursuit of at least one open ...
Nov 08, 2007 |
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Socialization May Be Key to New Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa
Understanding how individuals with anorexia nervosa interact with others may lead to entirely new approaches to treating the disease which affects up to 10 million adolescents.
Nov 08, 2007 |
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Developing kryptonite for Superbug
University of Idaho researchers are crossing academic and geographical bounds to develop more effective defenses against Staphylococcus aureus bacteria and other deadly pathogens.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 08, 2007 |
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AMD Delivers First Stream Processor with Double Precision Floating Point Technology
AMD today announced the AMD FireStream 9170 Stream Processor and an accompanying Software Development Kit (SDK) designed to harness the massive parallel processing power of the graphics processing unit (GPU).
Nov 08, 2007 |
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New Scoring System Protects Credit Card Transactions
As this year’s holiday season approaches, your credit card transactions may be a little more secure thanks to standards adopted by the payment card industry.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 08, 2007 |
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Micro Microwave Does Pinpoint Cooking for Miniaturized Labs
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and George Mason University have demonstrated what is probably the world’s smallest microwave oven, a tiny mechanism that can heat a pinhead-sized ...
Nov 08, 2007 |
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Bug-Zapper: A Dose of Radiation May Help Knock Out Malaria
How are physicists helping an effort to eradicate malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than one million people every year? Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology used ...
Nov 08, 2007 |
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