Robot carries out operation by itself
May 19, 2006 |
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For the first time, a robot surgeon in Italy has carried out a long-distance heart operation by itself.
Researchers use bacteria to reduce uranium to safe levels
May 19, 2006 |
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While the Cold War ended decades ago, its legacy will live for centuries in toxic waste. In remote corners of the country from Tennessee to the Pacific Northwest, dozens of federal laboratories struggle to ...
Nano World: Fast flow through nanotube membranes (Update)
May 19, 2006 |
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Surprisingly, gas and water flow far more rapidly through membranes that use carbon nanotubes as pores than through conventional membranes with pores 10 times or so wider, experts tell UPI's Nano World.
Researchers Make Vitamin E Offshoot A Potent Cancer Killer
May 19, 2006 |
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Researchers here have learned how a derivative of vitamin E causes the death of cancer cells. The researchers then used that knowledge to make the agent an even more potent cancer killer.
Scientists watching asteroid's path
May 19, 2006 |
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U.S. scientists are keeping an eye on a 1,000-foot-wide asteroid that could hit Earth 30 years from now with a force to destroy a small state.
Nokia E50 business device for mobile professionals
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 19, 2006 |
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Nokia today announced the latest addition to the Nokia Eseries family of business devices, the Nokia E50.
ESA's New Camera Follows Disintegration of 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 Comet
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 19, 2006 |
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The continuing disintegration of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 has allowed ESA scientists to see into the interior of the comet. Using a revolutionary camera attached to the ESA Optical Ground Station on ...
ESA’s Cluster flies through Earth’s electrical switch
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 19, 2006 |
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ESA’s Cluster satellites have flown through regions of the Earth’s magnetic field that accelerate electrons to approximately one hundredth the speed of light. The observations present Cluster scientists with ...
Linking Climate Change Across Time Scales
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 19, 2006 |
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What do month-to-month changes in temperature have to do with century-to-century changes in temperature? At first it might seem like not much. But in a report published in this week’s Nature, scientists from t ...
Ministers to initial ITER agreement in Brussels
May 19, 2006 |
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Ministers representing the seven ITER parties will meet in Brussels on the 24th of May in the Commission’s Berlaymont building in Brussels, to initial the agreement that they have negotiated on jointly implementing ...
Apple sues Creative Technologies
May 19, 2006 |
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In the ongoing legal dispute between digital media player rivals, Apple filed a U.S. lawsuit this week against Creative for patent infringement.
Algorithms put to use in oil hunt
May 19, 2006 |
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Mathematical procedures developed at MIT may soon help energy companies locate new sources of oil many kilometers underground.
Wireless World: Never lost at sea
May 19, 2006 |
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Your wireless Internet connection -- dear workaholic -- will never be lost at sea. Whether you are sailing the Caribbean, the Mediterranean or the open ocean, your wireless broadband will continually be connected to the office, ...
Globe Talk: Money power vs. the NSA
May 19, 2006 |
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Outraged that some telecom companies are selling out their customers to the government? Then vote with your wallet, or so argues one activist group. But the seemingly good idea may be rather difficult to follow through.
Known smoking dangers said no defense
May 19, 2006 |
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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court says cigarette makers cannot use known dangers as defense in personal injury suits.
