New method for the production of defined microparticles with 3-D nanopatterns
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Many scientists are working feverishly to develop reliable but simple methods for the production of tiny particles with defined size and shape that are covered with special regular patterns in two or three dimensions and ...
AMD Unleashes Enthusiast Gaming Performance for the Masses with ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series
Nov 15, 2007 |
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AMD today announced the introduction and immediate availability of the ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series of graphics processing units (GPU). As the world’s first series of graphics processors to deliver Microsoft’s DirectX 10.1 support, ...
IBM Introduces Ready-to-Use Cloud Computing
Nov 15, 2007 |
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In Shanghai today, IBM unveiled plans for “Blue Cloud,” a series of cloud computing offerings that will allow corporate data centers to operate more like the Internet by enabling computing across a distributed, ...
Traffic control systems
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Traffic flow accounts for as much as one-third of global energy consumption. However, unconventional changes in managing traffic flow could significantly reduce harmful CO2 emissions. ETH Zurich Professor for Sociology, Dirk ...
Gene in male fish lures females into sex
Biology /
Nov 15, 2007 |
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A gene has been found in male cichlid fish that evolved to lure female fish so that male cichlids can deposit sperm in the females mouths. A study in the online open access journal BMC Biology reveals that ...
The bacteria can cheat on their mates
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Nov 15, 2007 |
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Pursuing our own short term interests by cheating on the rest of the population is not the preserve of the human race. It seems bacteria can operate in just the same way.
Evolutionary biology research on plant shows significance of maternal effects
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Nov 15, 2007 |
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When habitat changes, animals migrate. But how do immobile organisms like plants cope when faced with alterations to their environment? This is an increasingly important question in light of new environmental conditions brought ...
Girls will be girls longer when home life is stable
Nov 15, 2007 |
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For many young girls, a stable family life is one key factor to avoiding a number of serious health problems. New research by researchers at The University of Arizona and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, indicates that ...
Forests damaged by Hurricane Katrina become major carbon source
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Researchers led by biologist Jeffrey Chambers of Tulane University have determined that the losses inflicted by Hurricane Katrina on Gulf Coast forest trees are enough to cancel out a year’s worth of new tree ...
General Motors, Virginia Tech scientists collaborate to advance neuroinformatics
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Advances in sensing technologies have made exquisite measurements of brain activity possible in the past decade. Using these measurements, computer scientists will now help neuroscientists discover the complex neuronal networks ...
UW launches cutting-edge DNA 'fin-printing' project for salmon
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Nov 15, 2007 |
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Some salmon make one heck of a commute. The record holder in the Pacific Northwest, for example, is a steelhead that was tagged in the Clearwater River, Idaho, in April 2003. A year and a half later, it was ...
Rosetta: OSIRIS’ view of Earth by night
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 15, 2007 |
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This striking composite of Earth by night shows the illuminated crescent over Antarctica and cities of the northern hemisphere. The images were acquired with the OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera (WAC) during Rosetta’s ...
Researcher Says a Woman's Paycheck Is Key to Determining How Much Housework She Does
Nov 15, 2007 |
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In married working couples, the more money a woman earns, the less housework she will do, regardless of how much money her spouse makes, says Sanjiv Gupta, a sociologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. That finding, ...
How 'IAP antagonist' chemicals kill tumors
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Chemical compounds specially designed to neutralize proteins that would otherwise allow tumor cells to cheat death have been recognized for some time by scientists as a promising new avenue for cancer therapy. Now, two studies ...
Neuroscientists Uncover Brain Region Involved in Voluntary Behavior
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have deciphered the activity of an area of the brain that could one day prove vital in the development of neural prostheses--within-the-brain implants that would translate ...
