Archive: 03/21/2007
System monitors health of new composite military missiles
Engineers at Purdue University have designed and tested a "structural health monitoring" system to detect flaws that could hinder the performance of new types of military missiles made of composite materials ...
Mar 21, 2007 |
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New Concept Video Camera for SDHC Memory Card Recording
Up to now, the growth of the video camera market has been driven by uses such as recording weddings and birthday parties. In an effort to stimulate new demand in this largely mature market, Panasonic is introducing ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 21, 2007 |
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Gender and age can be determined from face silhouettes
A new study published in Journal of Vision demonstrates that face silhouettes are visually processed much like regular face stimuli and provide enough information to determine traits about the subject including age and ge ...
Mar 21, 2007 |
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Morphine kills pain -- not patients
Many people, including health care workers, believe that morphine is a lethal drug that causes death when used to control pain for a patient who is dying. That is a misconception according to new research published in the ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 21, 2007 |
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WIYN telescope to get innovative billion-pixel, $6.6 million camera
The number of larger-aperture telescopes is growing, but size isn't all that matters in a research telescope. Also important is how much of the sky the telescope can clearly image. A telescope used by Indiana ...
Mar 21, 2007 |
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Tiny Clue Reveals New Path Toward Heart Disease
Geneticists have discovered a new gene that may put individuals at higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
Mar 21, 2007 |
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Motorola, T-Mobile Launch the MOTORIZR Z3
The stylish and uniquely crafted MOTORIZR Z3, the first GSM slider in the U.S., from Motorola, is available beginning today exclusively from T-Mobile USA. With premium communications and multimedia features, ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 21, 2007 |
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MIT biologists solve vitamin puzzle
Solving a mystery that has puzzled scientists for decades, MIT and Harvard researchers have discovered the final piece of the synthesis pathway of vitamin B12-the only vitamin synthesized exclusively by microorganisms.
Biology /
Mar 21, 2007 |
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Powerful new tool to track carbon dioxide by source
Scientists from NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) announced today a new tool to monitor changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by region and source. The tool, called CarbonTracker, will ...
Mar 21, 2007 |
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Researchers simplify synthetic production of potential pharmaceuticals
A team of researchers at The Scripps Research Institute has developed new techniques that dramatically reduce the time, complexity, and cost of synthesizing natural products with pharmaceutical potential. The work dislodges ...
Mar 21, 2007 |
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Moral judgment fails without feelings
Consider the following scenario: someone you know has AIDS and plans to infect others, some of whom will die. Your only options are to let it happen or to kill the person. Do you pull the trigger?
Mar 21, 2007 |
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Volcanic plumbing dictates development of deep-sea hydrothermal vents
After years of results that repeatedly dogged him, University of Oregon geologist Douglas R. Toomey decided to follow the trail of data surfacing from the Pacific Ocean. In doing so, he and his collaborators ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 21, 2007 |
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Mechanics meets chemistry in new way to manipulate matter
The inventors of self-healing plastic have come up with another invention: a new way of doing chemistry. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have found a novel way to manipulate matter and drive ...
Mar 21, 2007 |
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Hinode's X-Ray Telescope Reveals the Sun's Secrets
Even though the sun is the closest star to Earth and has been studied for hundreds of years, it still holds surprises. The recently launched Hinode spacecraft is one of the latest observatories to probe the ...
Mar 21, 2007 |
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Study: Fallen leaves found less polluting
U.S. government scientists say freshly fallen leaves contribute less to the levels of carbon in mineral soil than was previously believed.
Mar 21, 2007 |
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