Fujitsu Introduces World's First 300 GB 2.5" SATA Hard Disk Drive
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Fujitsu Limited today announced the development of the world's first 2.5" hard disk drive that offers storage capacity of 300 gigabytes (GB) with a Serial ATA interface. The new hard disk drive "MHX2300BT" ...
Older men treated for early prostate cancer live longer than those who are not
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Recent findings from an observational study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine suggest that men between 65 and 80 years of age who received treatment for early stage, localized prostate cancer ...
Seeing a neurotoxin's deadly grip
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Two Howard Hughes Medical Institute research teams working independently have discovered new information about how the botulinum neurotoxin shuts down neurons with deadly efficiency. By providing detailed views ...
New dyslexia theory blames 'noise'
Dec 13, 2006 |
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The dyslexic brain struggles to read because even small distractions can throw it off, according to a new model of dyslexia emerging from a group of recent studies.
Sharp Develops Basic Technology for RRAM, Next-Generation Nonvolatile Memory
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Sharp Corporation has developed basic technology for a novel high-speed programming system for RRAM (Resistance Random Access Memory), a next-generation nonvolatile memory capable of programming data at rates about 100 times ...
Social Psychologist Debunks Myths of Singles and Singlehood
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 13, 2006 |
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The holidays can be a difficult time for single people. Friends and family, convinced that singles would give up their solo status in a heartbeat if the right person came along, often try to steer them down the road to holy ...
Forsyth scientists discover early key to regeneration
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Dec 13, 2006 |
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Science may be one step closer to understanding how a limb can be grown or a spinal cord can be repaired. Scientists at The Forsyth Institute have discovered that some cells have to die for regeneration to occur. This research ...
Nano-devices hold promise for early-stage cancer detection
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 13, 2006 |
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They are miniature labs that can be swallowed like a pill, injected through a catheter, or woven into fabric. Their function is to screen for, detect, and potentially treat, cancer and other diseases when they are still ...
Tiny bones rewrite textbooks
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Small but remarkable fossils found in New Zealand will prompt a major rewrite of prehistory textbooks, showing for the first time that the so-called "land of birds" was once home to mammals as well.
Study finds oysters can take heat and heavy metals, but not both
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Dec 13, 2006 |
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Pollution is bad for the sea life and so is global warming, but aquatic organisms can be resilient. However, even organisms tough enough to survive one major onslaught may find that a double whammy is more than their molecular ...
Russian capabilities benefit the hydrogen economy
Dec 13, 2006 |
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The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has brokered a cooperative partnership between a U.S. firm, a Russian Institute and its scientists for commercialization of a miniature hydrogen ...
Nano design adjustment may help find, clear some water contaminants
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Experiments designed to test discrepancies in theoretical computational chemistry have turned up a barely two-angstrom difference that may lead to a new approach to locate and remove dangerous toxins such as ...
Physicists Set New Record for Network Data Transfer
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 13, 2006 |
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An international team of physicists, computer scientists, and network engineers led by the California Institute of Technology, CERN, and the University of Michigan and partners at the University of Florida and Vanderbilt, ...
Brain’s 'fear center' may underlie autistic behaviors
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 13, 2006 |
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The brain's emotional center is unusually small in autistic males with the most severe behavioral impairments, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers reported this month.
Robotics, laser and wireless technologies make driving safer for wheelchair users
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Engineers at Lehigh and Carnegie Mellon universities, working with a Philadelphia-based start-up, have integrated robotics, laser and wireless technologies into a new system that promises to make it safer and cheaper for ...
