Archive: 12/20/2005
Study: Parents key to how we handle stress
A German study examining adolescent to young adult coping styles finds those with coherent parental relationships deal more effectively with stress.
Dec 20, 2005 |
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Bollywood set to embrace digital cinema
While studios and theater owners in Hollywood fight over who pays for the expensive computer-based projection systems for digital screening of movies, digital cinema distribution is the new technological revolution that is ...
Dec 20, 2005 |
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Fruit fly studies help explain human heart
Researchers at The Burnham Institute for Medical Research in San Diego have obtained detailed insights into the early formation of the human heart.
Dec 20, 2005 |
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Your sweet tooth may really be in your brain's 'pleasure hotspot'
What makes those holiday candies and Christmas cookies look so tempting? University of Michigan researchers have discovered a "pleasure spot" in the brains of rats, helping neuroscientists understand where and how pleasure ...
Dec 20, 2005 |
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Physics: Hunting the Penguin During BaBar's Long Run
BaBarians are hot on the trail of penguins. The BaBar collaboration is hunting for signs of new physics - perhaps supersymmetry, or perhaps the Higgs particle - in 'penguin modes', rare channels of decay from ...
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Dec 20, 2005 |
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Understanding Earthquakes
Rensselaer campus regulars may not be aware of it, but earthquakes frequently surge through the basement of the Jonsson Engineering Center, the seemingly placid engineering building overlooking the school’s ...
Dec 20, 2005 |
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Penn-State Philips CMOS transistor model adopted as industry-wide standard for future nanometer chip design
Philips and the Pennsylvania State University today announced that their jointly developed PSP (Penn State Philips) complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) transistor model has been selected by the Compact ...
Dec 20, 2005 |
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Cyber gamers get thumbs up from China
The Chinese government loves computer gamers. And it will go out of its way to support them.
Dec 20, 2005 |
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3Com launches corporate 'guest' wireless
A system that allows visitors to large office buildings to instantly log on to the firm's wireless network has been unveiled by 3Com Corp.
Dec 20, 2005 |
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How nanotubes enter cells
Scientists worldwide are teasing apart the precise mechanisms behind how tubes of carbon only nanometers or billionths of a meter wide enter cells, findings that researchers could employ to help these nanotubes deliver medicines ...
Dec 20, 2005 |
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Hunt for rare woodpecker continues
Bird experts and volunteers are searching the swampy forests of eastern Arkansas, looking for the chance to photograph the rare ivory-billed woodpecker.
Dec 20, 2005 |
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Briefs: iVillage and MSN renew agreement
iVillage and MSN announced Tuesday they are renewing their content publication agreement.
Dec 20, 2005 |
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Briefs: EU calls for tenders in radio frequency ID
The European Union Tuesday called for tenders to help radio frequency identification.
Dec 20, 2005 |
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Study: No U.S. engineering gap
At least one study is refuting reports that China and India graduate more than eight times the number of engineers than does the United States.
Dec 20, 2005 |
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Briefs: Motorola touts wireless security cameras
Motorola is seeing its new wireless surveillance cameras as a major advance in the fields of security and law enforcement.
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