Archive: 01/19/2007
Cause of bird flu outbreak tracked
Agriculture officials in Japan say a bird flu outbreak last week involved a highly virulent strain of the flu virus.
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Right counter height can improve fingerprint capture
Once a tool primarily used by law enforcement, biometric technologies such as fingerprint readers increasingly are being used by governments and private industry for a personal ID that can't easily be forged or stolen. But, ...
Jan 19, 2007 |
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NIST 'Standard Bullet' fights gang violence
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a copper bullet designed to help end criminal sprees without once being fired. Crime laboratories can use NIST's "Standard ...
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Researchers observe superradiance in a free electron laser
A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has generated extremely short light pulses using a new technique that could be used in the next generation of light source facilities ...
Jan 19, 2007 |
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New Miniaturized Device for Lab-on-a-Chip Separations
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed an elegantly simple, miniaturized technique for rapidly separating minute samples of proteins, amino acids and other chemical ...
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Improved Nanodots Could Be Key to Future Data Storage
The massive global challenge of storing digital data--storage needs reportedly double every year--may be met with a tiny yet powerful solution: magnetic particles just a few billionths of a meter across. This ...
Nanotechnology / General Physics
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Study looks at traffic death risks
Eighteen-year-old males are as risky behind the wheel as 80-year-old females, says a new traffic study from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University.
Jan 19, 2007 |
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The great cometary show
Comet McNaught, the Great Comet of 2007, is no more visible for observers in the Northern Hemisphere. It does put an impressive show in the South, however, and observers in Chile, in particular at the Paranal ...
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Learning the language of gene expression
Researchers have taken a major step towards understanding the language of gene regulation in the fruitfly Drosophila and they expect the technique to be rapidly applicable to understanding the effects of genome variation ...
Biology /
Jan 19, 2007 |
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A New Year for BaBar and PEP-II
With electrons and positrons flowing, BaBar and PEP-II are celebrating a new year with a new run.
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Progress 24 Nears Station, Ready for Docking Tonight
After launching Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan the ISS Progress 24 is approaching the International Space Station. At 10 p.m. EST the new cargo carrier will link up with the station’s ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Leopards lose habitat to humans in India
Residents of rural towns in India have killed two rare leopards after the cats left their mountain habitats presumably to search for food.
Biology /
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Ground Zero responders have health worries
Some police officers, firefighters and others who responded to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in New York City say they are paying for it with their health.
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Virus hits DC airport hotel
Public health workers Friday tried to track down the source of a contagious virus that sickened guests and workers at a hotel near Washington.
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Flushing toilet takes medical prize
Public sanitation, including the flushing toilet, was picked as the greatest medical breakthrough since 1840 in an international poll released in London.
Jan 19, 2007 |
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