Garlic boosts hydrogen sulfide to relax arteries
Oct 15, 2007 |
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Eating garlic is one of the best ways to lower high blood pressure and protect yourself from cardiovascular disease. A new study from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) shows this protective effect is closely linked ...
LG Electronics Introduces LG Viewty Mobile Phone
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 15, 2007 |
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LG Electronics, a worldwide technology leader in mobile communications, introduced its new LG Viewty, LG-KU990 mobile phone with advanced digital camera features and the ability to record video at up to 120 ...
Hitachi Achieves Nanotechnology Milestone for Quadrupling Terabyte Hard Drive
Oct 15, 2007 |
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Hitachi, Ltd. announced today they have developed the world’s smallest read-head technology for hard disk drives, which is expected to quadruple current storage capacity limits to four terabytes (TB) on a desktop hard drive ...
Think Round: Korean Company Develops Spherical Solar Cell
Oct 15, 2007 |
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Kyosemi Corporation has developed a highly efficient round solar cell. The Sphelar is a registered trademark of Kyosemi Corp. The advantages of the Sphelar is its unique ability to capture the sun in all directions ...
Epson Develops Long-life OLED Display System Capable of Reproducing 'the Ultimate Black'
Oct 15, 2007 |
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Seiko Epson Corp. has developed an organic light-emitting diode ("OLED") display system capable of producing "the ultimate black." Having resolved the problem of achieving long life for the device, a longstanding ...
Good vibrations in nanotube research
Oct 15, 2007 |
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IBM scientists have measured distribution of electrical charges in tubes of carbon that measure less than 2 nanometers in diameter, 50,000 times thinner than a strand of human hair. The technique provides ...
What chimpanzees can teach us about economics
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Oct 15, 2007 |
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In a long-standing enigma of economics and psychology, humans tend to immediately value an item they've just been given more highly than the maximum amount they would have paid if they had acquired it themselves. ...
Free Music Service to Compete with iTunes
Oct 15, 2007 |
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Universal Music plans to launch a new mobile music service where all songs will be free, according to a recent article in BusinessWeek. To be called "Total Music," the concept would include iPod alternatives ...
Blood may help us think
Oct 15, 2007 |
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MIT scientists propose that blood may help us think, in addition to its well-known role as the conveyor of fuel and oxygen to brain cells.
Testosterone turns male juncos into blustery hunks -- and bad dads
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Oct 15, 2007 |
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The ability to ramp up testosterone production appears to drive male dark-eyed juncos to find and win mates, but it comes with an evolutionary cost. Big fluctuations in testosterone may also cause males to ...
In human grid, we're the cogs
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 15, 2007 |
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Before you can post a comment to most blogs, you have to type in a series of distorted letters and numbers (a CAPTCHA) to prove that you are a person and not a computer attempting to add comment spam to the ...
Scientists ramp up ability of poplar plants to disarm toxic pollutants
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Oct 15, 2007 |
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Scientists since the early '90s have seen the potential for cleaning up contaminated sites by growing plants able to take up nasty groundwater pollutants through their roots. Then the plants break certain ...
Structure of influenza B virus protein gives clues to next pandemic
Oct 15, 2007 |
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Determining the structure of a protein called hemagglutinin on the surface of influenza B is giving researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University in Houston clues as to what kinds of mutations could spark ...
After drought, ponds keep up with the Joneses
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Oct 15, 2007 |
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An ecologist at Washington University in St. Louis has discovered that after ponds dry up through drought in a region, when they revive, the community of species in each pond tends to be very similar to one another, like ...
Contrast Agent Trials in Swine
Oct 15, 2007 |
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Mammography continues to be the method of choice for the early detection of breast cancer. However, because this technique is not as selective or specific as one would wish, and does not deliver reliable results for every ...
