Carbon Joins the Magnetic Club
May 11, 2007 |
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The exclusive club of magnetic elements officially has a new member—carbon. Using a proton beam and advanced x-ray techniques, researchers at the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) ...
ESA presents the sharpest ever satellite map of Earth
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 11, 2007 |
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The most detailed portraits ever of the Earth's land surface have been created with ESA's Envisat environmental satellite. The portraits are the first products produced as part of the ESA-initiated GlobCover ...
An aspirin a day keeps colon cancer away
May 11, 2007 |
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An Oxford University study shows that taking a 300mg tablet of aspirin a day for five years can reduce the risk of colon cancer by 74 per cent in the subsequent 10-15 years, or by 37 per cent overall.
Probing Question: Are sports drinks better than water for athletes?
May 11, 2007 |
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After finishing a long run in the heat of a July afternoon, you're thirsty, your muscles are weak, you feel generally fatigued, and you may have a minor headache. Your body is telling you that it needs to ...
Purdue to continue review of 'bubble fusion' research
May 11, 2007 |
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A congressional subcommittee has asked Purdue to continue looking into allegations of misconduct related to sonofusion research in the university's School of Nuclear Engineering.
DNA sieve -- Nanoscale pores can be tiny analysis labs
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 11, 2007 |
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Imagine being able to rapidly identify tiny biological molecules such as DNA and toxins using a system that can fit on a microchip or in a drop of salt water. It’s closer than you might think, say a team of ...
Wetter Report: New Approach to Testing Surface Adhesion
May 11, 2007 |
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With a nod to one of nature's best surface chemists—an obscure desert beetle—polymer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have devised a convenient way to construct test surfaces ...
Higher gas prices leave many workers running on empty
May 11, 2007 |
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Few have been unaffected by the rapidly increasing price of gas, which has inched its way up toward $4 a gallon in some parts of the United States. And consumers aren’t feeling those effects just in their wallets, a Florida ...
'Tunable' network features coordinated frequency combs
May 11, 2007 |
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A super stable fiber-optic network that can be tuned across a range of visible and near-infrared frequencies while synchronizing the oscillations of light waves from different sources has been demonstrated at the National ...
Witnesses' memories can be improved
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 11, 2007 |
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British researchers have developed a technique to make crime witnesses' memories more accurate and stronger.
Microsoft Cuts Core Features From Viridian
May 11, 2007 |
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The Windows Server virtualization technology will now not include Live migration and hot-add resources, and support will be limited to 16 cores or logical processors.
Researchers discover link between Parkinson's and narcolepsy
May 11, 2007 |
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Parkinson's disease is well-known for its progression of motor disorders: stiffness, slowness, tremors, difficulties walking and talking. Less well known is that Parkinson's shares other symptoms with narcolepsy, a sleep ...
Slowing the racing heart
May 11, 2007 |
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Scientists have discovered how we put the brakes on a racing heartbeat.
Africa faces cancer epidemic
May 11, 2007 |
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Africa faces an epidemic of cancer, health ministers were told at a conference in London.
New Centrino Tech Headed for Desktops, Too
May 11, 2007 |
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Part of the significance of Intel's new mobile platform is that it will also allow manufacturers to design newer, more powerful, smaller form factor desktop PCs as well.
