Archive: 06/11/2009
Microsoft to Offer Free Antivirus Protection
Microsoft is gearing up to offer Windows users a free real-time antivirus protection. Code name Morro, the antivirus product will be a hosted service. Morro works by routing all users Internet traffic to a ...
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Portable Precision: A New Type of Atomic Clock
The most accurate atomic clocks in the world are based on the output of cesium atoms. These ultra-precise fountain clocks measure the frequency and time interval of seconds by using a fountain-like movement of cesium atoms. ...
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Waste disposal protein is mechanism behind cancer tumor suppression
"Taking out the trash" takes on a whole new meaning, as investigators at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, have discovered that a waste disposal protein is the key ...
Jun 11, 2009 |
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New study describes risk of mobile phone virus attacks
Traditional cell phones have been immune to viruses because they lack standardized operating systems. However, as smart phones rapidly increase in market share, viruses pose a serious threat to mobile communications.
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Climate pledges bound to breach key warming target: scientists
Pledges currently on the table at the UN climate talks will doom Earth to a warming of more than two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), a figure that has been widely endorsed as a safe limit, scientists ...
Jun 11, 2009 |
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NASA gives unanimous 'go' for Saturday launch
(AP) -- NASA managers have given a unanimous "go" to Saturday's launch of space shuttle Endeavour.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Deforestation causes 'boom-and-bust' development in the Amazon
Clearing the Amazon rainforest increases Brazilian communities' wealth and quality of life, but these improvements are short-lived, according to new research published in Science. The study, by an intern ...
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Abrupt global warming could shift monsoon patterns, hurt agriculture
At times in the distant past, an abrupt change in climate has been associated with a shift of seasonal monsoons to the south, a new study concludes, causing more rain to fall over the oceans than in the Earth's tropical regions, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Adults, especially women, have calorie-burning 'brown fat'
Keeping your baby fat turns out to be a good thing, as long as it is "brown fat"—the kind that burns calories, according to a study that found adults have much more of this type of fat than previously thought.
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Successful weight loss with dieting is linked to vitamin D levels
Vitamin D levels in the body at the start of a low-calorie diet predict weight loss success, a new study found.
Jun 11, 2009 |
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New images may improve vaccine design for deadly rotavirus
Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers are reporting the first detailed molecular snapshots of a deadly gastrointestinal virus as it is caught in the grasp of an immune system molecule with the capacity to destroy it. ...
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Bacterial 'sex' causes antibiotic resistance
Some disease-causing bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics because they have peculiar sex lives, say researchers publishing new results today in the journal Science. The new study helps scientists understand how ba ...
Jun 11, 2009 |
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New 'electronic glue' promises less expensive semiconductors
Researchers at the University of Chicago and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed an "electronic glue" that could accelerate advances in semiconductor-based technologies, including solar cells ...
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Maple seeds and animals exploit the same trick to fly (w/Video)
The twirling seeds of maple trees spin like miniature helicopters as they fall to the ground. Because the seeds descend slowly as they swirl, they can be carried aloft by the wind and dispersed over great ...
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Private papers reveal ‘Who’s Who of British Science’
One of the most important archives of nineteenth-century science - stored in obscurity for over 100 years - has been reunited and acquired by the John Rylands University Library at The University of Manchester.
Jun 11, 2009 |
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