Archive: 05/10/2007
FDA: Stop using 'True Man' or 'Energy Max'
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning Thursday, advising consumers not to purchase or use "True Man" or "Energy Max" products.
May 10, 2007 |
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ISS crew gets ready for a delivery
The International Space Station crew was preparing for the arrival of a new Progress freighter spacecraft that will deliver more than 2.5 tons of supplies.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 10, 2007 |
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NASA selects essay competition winners
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has identified the winners of its high school essay competition to describe "Air Transportation in 2057."
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 10, 2007 |
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New blood pressure drug found lacking
A U.S. study has determined the first of a new class of drugs designed to treat hypertension has limited effectiveness.
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 10, 2007 |
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Magnetic Computer Sensors May Help Study Biomolecules
Magnetic switches like those in computers also might be used to manipulate individual strands of DNA for high-speed applications such as gene sequencing, experiments at the National Institute of Standards ...
May 10, 2007 |
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Scientists equip bacteria with custom chemo-navigational system
Using an innovative method to control the movement of Escherichia coli in a chemical environment, Emory University scientists have opened the door to powerful new opportunities in drug delivery, environmental cleanup and ...
May 10, 2007 |
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Drylands are not the same as badlands
Drylands, where 38 percent of the world's population lives, can be protected from the irreversible damage of desertification if local residents and managers at all levels would follow basic sustainability principles, according ...
May 10, 2007 |
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University to develop three-in-one device for the third world
The University of Manchester will play a major role in a £2m project that aims to deliver a wood-powered all-in-one generator, cooker and fridge into third world communities in five years.
May 10, 2007 |
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The race is on, only these vehicles are moving less than 25 mph
Unlike race cars that travel at speeds greater than 200 miles per hour racing for victory, farmers are racing to get their crops planted - but at a much slower pace. As farmers move their equipment to and from fields, mot ...
May 10, 2007 |
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Real-Time Seismic Monitor Installed on Growing Underwater Volcano
Kick'em Jenny is its name, and for oceanographers working in the southeastern Caribbean Sea, this undersea volcano has been a handful.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 10, 2007 |
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'Missing Mass' Found in Recycled Dwarf Galaxies
Astronomers studying dwarf galaxies formed from the debris of a collision of larger galaxies found the dwarfs much more massive than expected, and think the additional material is "missing mass" that theorists ...
May 10, 2007 |
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Mission Could Seek Out Spock's Home Planet
Science fiction may soon become science fact. Astronomers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have recently concluded that the upcoming planet-finding mission, SIM PlanetQuest, would be able to detect an Earth-like ...
May 10, 2007 |
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Bone marrow stem cells may cure eye disease
Adult bone marrow stem cells may help cure certain genetic eye diseases, according to University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers.
May 10, 2007 |
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Where consumer culture doesn't quite reach
In the June issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, a important study by Tuba Üstüner (City University, London) and Douglas B. Holt (University of Oxford) explores how consumer culture is enacted in ramshackle neighborhoods on the ...
May 10, 2007 |
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Study shows massive CO2 burps from ocean to atmosphere at end of last ice age
A University of Colorado at Boulder-led research team tracing the origin of a large carbon dioxide increase in Earth's atmosphere at the end of the last ice age has detected two ancient "burps" that originated ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 10, 2007 |
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