New Nokia N810 Internet Tablet hits store shelves
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 19, 2007 |
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Nokia announced today that the new Nokia N810 Internet Tablet has begun shipping nationwide in the United States. With a new slide-out keyboard, built-in GPS, digital audio/video playback and Wi-Fi capability ...
Car catalysator works differently than expected
Nov 19, 2007 |
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The 3-way catalysator of a car apparently works differently from the way chemists had expected. The conversion of carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide takes place not in one single step, but in at least two different steps. ...
Carnegie Mellon algorithm identifies top 100 blogs for news
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 19, 2007 |
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Being among the first to pick up on Internet news and gossip and rapidly detecting contamination anywhere in a water supply system are similar problems, at least from a computer scientist’s point of view. Both can be solved ...
Organic Molecules Stay on Top
Nov 19, 2007 |
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The van der Waals force, a weak attractive force, is solely responsible for binding certain organic molecules to metallic surfaces. In a model for organic devices, it is this force alone that binds an organic film to a metallic ...
Brain differences found in people with migraine
Nov 19, 2007 |
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People with migraines have differences in an area of the brain that helps process sensory information, including pain, according to a study published in the November 20, 2007, issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the ...
Do We Need the Bells and Whistles? Educational Toys May Be Coal in the Holiday Stocking
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 19, 2007 |
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The recent recalls of various children’s toys have parents and would-be Santas leery this holiday season, but it may just be the thing to push consumers to be more creative about the toys they buy their young ...
MIT sees acceleration in US greenhouse emissions
Nov 19, 2007 |
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U.S. greenhouse gas emissions could grow more quickly in the next 50 years than in the previous half-century, and technological change may cause increased emissions rather than control them, according to a new study by an ...
Reading Tests that 'Misread' Some Children
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 19, 2007 |
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Screening tests widely used to identify children with reading problems are being misapplied, landing students in the wrong instructional level and delaying treatment for their true difficulties, says new research ...
New research helps explain how tumors go undetected by the body
Nov 19, 2007 |
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Scientists studying how immune cells are regulated in healthy individuals, have made a key discovery in understanding why tumours may go undetected by the immune system and remain untreated by the body’s own ...
Huge yawn locks jaw, chokes man
Nov 19, 2007 |
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A British man was rushed to the hospital after his monster yawn locked his jaw, blocking his ability to breathe or swallow.
New Technology to Treat Breast Cancer Shows Promise in Early Application
Nov 19, 2007 |
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Physicians at the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center will present the initial outcomes of their use of a new device that delivers radiation therapy to a specific tumor site at the annual meeting of the Radiological ...
Women aren't men
Nov 19, 2007 |
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Women's bodies and medical needs are vastly different than men's way beyond their reproductive systems. Women wake sooner from anesthesia, have less familiar symptoms of cardiovascular disease and are more likely to suffer ...
Magnetic nanoparticles detect and remove harmful bacteria
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 19, 2007 |
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Researchers in Ohio report the development of magnetic nanoparticles that show promise for quickly detecting and eliminating E. coli, anthrax, and other harmful bacteria. In laboratory studies, the nanoparticles helped detect ...
Sweet magnolia: Tree bark extract fights bad breath and tooth decay
Nov 19, 2007 |
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“Sweet magnolia” does more than describe the fragrant blossoms of a popular evergreen tree. It also applies to magnolia bark’s effects on human breath. Scientists in Illinois are reporting that breath mints ...
NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX GPU Comes to Notebooks
Nov 19, 2007 |
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This holiday season a new era of PC games, featuring advanced new graphics effects, will immerse gamers in cinematic realism like never before. Games like Crysis, Unreal Tournament 3, and Call of Duty 4 are ...
