Archive: 06/12/2006
Wanted: Clothing that kills bacteria
Professors at Wilkes University are hoping to design a process that turns ordinary clothing into bacteria-killing apparel by use of nanotechnology.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 12, 2006 |
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New methods used to follow land use
Dutch researcher Koen Overmars has used a combination of analyses to gain insight into how land use is changing in San Mariano on the Philippines.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 12, 2006 |
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In Brief: 6M homes seen having municipal broadband
About 6 million U.S. households could have public broadband networks within the next five years, according to one study released Monday.
Jun 12, 2006 |
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Qualcomm's dispute with Nokia heats up
The legal team at Qualcomm is gearing up for a battle on multiple fronts. On one hand, the San Diego-based mobile communications group has filed yet another lawsuit Monday against Finland's Nokia with the U.S. International ...
Jun 12, 2006 |
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Phone pass codes should be changed often
Voice mail and long-distance access codes should be changed often to avoid hacking and unauthorized calls, Verizon warned Monday.
Jun 12, 2006 |
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Adobe Production Suite is rock solid
Adobe seeks to reclaim the title of best of breed PC Video application with the release of their new Adobe Production Studio Premium -- an almost dream suite of applications, but at a stratospheric price. The old adage you ...
Jun 12, 2006 |
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Coral Death Results from Bacteria Fed by Algae
Bacteria and algae are combining to kill coral –– and human activities are compounding the problem. Scientists have discovered an indirect microbial mechanism whereby bacteria kill coral with the help of algae. ...
Biology /
Jun 12, 2006 |
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Parallel evolution: proteins do it, too
Wings, spines, saber-like teeth—nature and the fossil record abound with examples of structures so useful they've evolved independently in a variety of animals. But scientists have debated whether examples of so-called adaptive, ...
Jun 12, 2006 |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy Formation
One hundred million years after the Big Bang, giant primordial stars heated, ionized, and pushed the gas around them to form present-day stars and galaxies. And now, for the first time, we can see it happening—in ...
Jun 12, 2006 |
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Nanoparticles Overcome Anticancer Drug Resistance
Too often, chemotherapy fails to cure cancer because some tumor cells develop resistance to multiple anticancer drugs. In most cases, resistance develops when cancer cells begin expressing a protein, known as p-glycoprotein, ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 12, 2006 |
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HIV vaccine might offer survival advantage
U.S. researchers say even if an HIV vaccine doesn't offer perfect protection against the virus, it might provide a survival advantage after infection.
Jun 12, 2006 |
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New satellite set to collect most-detailed data yet about atmospheric particles
A new satellite that last week began gathering data from the Earth's atmosphere could be a key tool in unraveling just how much effect the reflectivity of clouds and tiny particles called aerosols are having ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 12, 2006 |
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Some Genetic Research is Best Done Close to the Evolutionary Home
Some aspects of evolution are like the real estate business in that it’s all about location, location, location! Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the ...
Jun 12, 2006 |
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Health-care chips could get under your skin
It seems like something out of an X Files script - a person's health-care information encoded into a tiny chip and implanted beneath the skin - but it's no script, says one health ethicist.
Jun 12, 2006 |
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Epson Develops A6-Size Electronic Paper with World's Highest Resolution Using Plastic Substrate
Seiko Epson Corp. has successfully developed A6-size (7.1 inches on the diagonal) electronic paper using a plastic substrate. Drawing on Epson's original SUFTLA technology, the new electronic paper achieves ...
Jun 12, 2006 |
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