What's The Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 All About
Dec 14, 2007 |
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Microsoft has announced an upcoming Windows XP Service Pack 3. There is a test version available. The Windows XP SP3 is primarily a package of previously released updates, security updates and hotfixes. However, ...
Return to Europa: A closer look is possible
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 14, 2007 |
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Jupiter’s moon Europa is just as far away as ever, but new research is bringing scientists closer to being able to explore its tantalizing ice-covered ocean and determine its potential for harboring life.
IBM Alliances Announce Advancement in High-K/Metal Gate Technology
Dec 14, 2007 |
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IBM and its joint development partners -- AMD, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Freescale, Infineon, and Samsung -- announced an innovative approach to speed the implementation of a breakthrough material ...
Quantum Communication Over Flawed Networks may be Possible
Dec 14, 2007 |
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If successfully implemented, quantum communication could be an extremely secure method of transmitting information – but there are major roadblocks to pass. Recently, physicists suggested a way, at least in theory, to overcome ...
Breakthrough technology observes synapse in real time, supporting theory of vesicular recycling
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For the first time, scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City have observed in real time a cellular mechanism that's crucial to how brain cells communicate.
Ancient Egyptian glassmaking recreated
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 14, 2007 |
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A team led by a Cardiff University archaeologist has reconstructed a 3,000-year-old glass furnace, showing that Ancient Egyptian glassmaking methods were much more advanced than previously thought.
Losses of long-established genes contribute to human evolution
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While it is well understood that the evolution of new genes leads to adaptations that help species survive, gene loss may also afford a selective advantage. A group of scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz ...
Theorists make discovery in odd triplet pairing
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In a paper which will shortly appear in Physical Review Letters, School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Oriol Valls along with lead author Klaus Halterman (China Lake, Naval Warfare Center) and co-author Paul Barsic (Unive ...
Aging gracefully requires taking out the trash
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Suppressing a cellular cleanup-mechanism known as autophagy can accelerate the accumulation of protein aggregates that leads to neural degeneration. In an upcoming issue of Autophagy, scientists at the Sa ...
NASA Sends Spacecraft on Mission to Comet Hartley 2
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 14, 2007 |
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NASA has approved the retargeting of the EPOXI mission for a flyby of comet Hartley 2 on Oct. 11, 2010. Hartley 2 was chosen as EPOXI's destination after the initial target, comet Boethin, could not be found. ...
Study Looks at Social Structure of Prison Communities
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 14, 2007 |
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In community settings, there’s always at least one person or perhaps a group of individuals who are most highly respected. Prison systems are no different; one’s social status results from interpersonal dynamics. To better ...
Technology Start-Ups Get Tips on Starting Out
Dec 14, 2007 |
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Talk more about business and less about technology. Have a solid team. And consider calling on angels. Those were some of the key lessons at a UT Dallas workshop last week for would-be entrepreneurs seeking capital to turn ...
Innovations in Robotics and Automation: Focus IEEE & UC Berkeley
Dec 14, 2007 |
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Current research in the field of robotics and automation is an area that holds great promise in man's ecological system. Professor Ken Goldberg, Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media at the University ...
How molecular muscles help cells divide
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Time-lapse videos and computer simulations provide the first concrete molecular explanation of how a cell flexes tiny muscle-like structures to pinch itself into two daughter cells at the end of each cell division, according ...
Where have all the lake eels gone? Queen's prof asks
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A Queen’s University environmental scientist will head a new international study to determine whether American eels – the slimy, snake-like fish considered worldwide to be a food delicacy – are dying from chemical pollution ...
