Flash drive provides emergency information
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An Oklahoma computer expert has devised a portable flash drive that can store a person's medical information for use in an emergency.
Researcher discovers how to control semiconductor nanowires
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Jorden van Dam, researcher at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft (Holland), has succeeded in largely controlling the transportation of electrons in semiconductor nanowires. Van Dam moreover discovered how to observe ...
Microsoft unveils new webcams
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Microsoft Tuesday unveiled a line of webcams designed for optimal performance with the company's popular Windows Live Messenger instant-messaging system.
Coffee seen to protect against cirrhosis
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A study by California's Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program has found another benefit from coffee -- protection against alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver.
Scientists take 'snapshots' of enzyme action
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, the New York Structural Biology Center, and SGX Pharmaceuticals, Inc., have determined the atomic crystal structure and functional ...
Study: Overcoming the loss of a loved one
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Netherlands scientists have offered the first conceptualization of what's known as the Complicated Grief Syndrome.
Italian scientists search for 'supersperm'
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A team of scientists from two Italian universities has reportedly developed a technique for identifying "supersperm" for use in fertility treatments.
Hubble Eyes Star Birth in the Extreme
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Staring into the crowded, dusty core of two merging galaxies, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a region where star formation has gone wild.
Injectable alcoholism drug developed
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A U.S. biotech firm has reportedly developed a monthly injectable alcoholism treatment as a substitute for a daily pill.
Nano World: Finger-sensitive sensor films
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Devices comparable in sensitivity to human fingers, enabled by a novel film embedded with nanoparticles, could offer the first step toward giving robotics hands the delicacy of the human touch, experts told UPI's Nano World.
Scientists find chlorine may contribute to ozone formation
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Standard methods of predicting air pollution don’t take atmospheric chlorine into account, but the chemical could be responsible for 10 percent or more of daily ozone production in local air, research at UC Irvine has found.
An evil storm is forecast
Jun 13, 2006 |
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Wicked, Evil, Foul, Bad -- all words meaning essentially the same thing, yet we don't talk about "evil weather," "foul witches" or the "forces of bad."
Study: Men good at anger, women with joy
Jun 13, 2006 |
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A Massachusetts Institute of Technology study shows men are good at noticing angry faces, with women good at noticing surprised, sad or joyful expressions.
UB gets federal grant for stem cell study
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A stem cell biologist at the University at Buffalo has received a $1.98 million federal research grant.
Value user over technology, new book says
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Brilliant technological innovation is good, but only as good as the market. New technologies fail financially when they fail to take into account how users will react to them.
