Red Hat Shuns 'Windows Clone' Model for Global Desktop
May 10, 2007 |
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The new Red Hat global desktop is based on a stripped-down version of the existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 and contains applications like Firefox, OpenOffice and Evolution.
Lithium superconducts without pressure
May 10, 2007 |
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Finnish scientists have found lithium can superconduct at extremely low temperatures -- a finding of import to those wishing to model superconductivity.
Real-Time Seismic Monitor Installed on Growing Underwater Volcano
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 10, 2007 |
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Kick'em Jenny is its name, and for oceanographers working in the southeastern Caribbean Sea, this undersea volcano has been a handful.
Magnetic Computer Sensors May Help Study Biomolecules
May 10, 2007 |
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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 ...
License to sin -- Asking people to think about vice increases their likelihood of giving in
May 10, 2007 |
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A new study by researchers from Duke, USC, and UPenn is the first to explore how questioning can affect our behavior when we have mixed feelings about an issue. The study, forthcoming in the June issue of the Journal of Co ...
Hands-On With the Helio Ocean
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 10, 2007 |
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This messaging phone just might kick the T-Mobile Sidekick to the curb.
Soft Matter and its Interface with Biology
May 10, 2007 |
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To understand how biological systems work, Jaques Prost, professor of biological physics and managing director at the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles in Paris, is developing theoretical tools and new ...
Fluorescent nanoparticles serve as flashlights in living cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 10, 2007 |
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Scientists from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, have successfully exploited the optical properties of fluorescent nanoparticles to broaden the scope of single-cell microscopy. By using nanoparticles, they succeeded ...
Supercomputer shows that nanolayers have turning sense
May 10, 2007 |
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Physicists from Research Centre Jülich and the University of Hamburg have discovered that on the atomic level nature differentiates between the image and mirror image of magnetic structures.
Wild wheat shows its muscles
Biology /
May 10, 2007 |
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A grain of wild wheat has everything required for plant propagation - even tools for drilling into the soil. It uses its two awns for this: in the dry daytime air, these bristles bend outwards. At night, dampened ...
FDA: Stop using 'True Man' or 'Energy Max'
May 10, 2007 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning Thursday, advising consumers not to purchase or use "True Man" or "Energy Max" products.
Doctors: Swedish Snus Cut Risk of Cancer
May 10, 2007 |
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People who use Swedish moist snuff (snus) run twice the risk of developing cancer of the pancreas. This is the main result of a follow-up study conducted by Karolinska Institutet researchers amongst almost 300,000 male construction ...
Revealing Photographs of DNA
May 10, 2007 |
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Ultrasensitive genetic detection methods could revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. However, all the techniques until now have been far too technically demanding for broad application. Munich researchers ...
Atlanta gets ready for RoboCup 2007
May 10, 2007 |
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Georgia Tech will be the site of this year's RoboCup competition, with approximately 2,000 students and faculty from 20 nations participating.
Drinking farm milk reduces childhood asthma and allergies but raw consumption remains unsafe
May 10, 2007 |
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Drinking farm milk can protect children against asthma and hayfever, according to a study of nearly 15,000 children published in the May issue of Clinical and Experimental Allergy.
