Archive: 04/21/2006
Nano World: Breath test for breast cancer
Breath tests for breast cancer might arise via pockets only square nanometers or billionths of a meter in size, experts told UPI's Nano World.
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Yellowpages to launch new mapping system
Yellowpages.com announced Friday that it will launch a next-generation mapping service to include road, aerial and birds-eye photo images.
Apr 21, 2006 |
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Geologists: Opening of passage may be tied to Antarctic cooling
Ancient fish teeth are yielding clues about when Antarctica became the icy continent it is today, highlighting how ocean currents affect climate change.
Apr 21, 2006 |
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Space scientists find that solar wind becomes music in the right hands
The music of composer and musician Roberto Morales-Manzanares has been inspired by the sea, by wind and wave, by mathematical equations, and now - thanks to his collaboration with space scientists at the University ...
Apr 21, 2006 |
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Obesity doubled in British children
The British National Obesity Forum announced that childhood obesity has doubled in the past 10 years.
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In Brief: U.K. businesses buck 0870 number rate cut
Britain's small-business community has come out against the government's plan to cut the call rate for revenue-raising 0870 phone numbers.
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Mobile music a cell-out in India
Partly helped by illegitimate downloads and partly because it has become an outright fad, mobile music is set to overtake legal conventional music in India in the next few months.
Apr 21, 2006 |
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Apple offers recycling for Mac trade-ins
Apple expanded its computer-recycling program Friday by announcing free take-back and recycling services with the purchase of a new Mac this summer.
Apr 21, 2006 |
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DNA to go: Texas A&M chemical engineer aims for DNA lab-on-a-chip
When Dr. Victor Ugaz talks about "catch-and-release," he means DNA, not fish. DNA is known to most of us these days through crime shows, but crime scene investigators and police detectives aren't the only ones ...
Apr 21, 2006 |
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Iowa State engineer to tell Senate committee to think beyond ethanol from corn
Iowa State's Robert C. Brown will tell a U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday, April 26, that corn and soybeans won't be able to produce enough renewable fuels to significantly reduce the country's oil imports.
Apr 21, 2006 |
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Mars Express's OMEGA uncovers possible sites for life
By mapping minerals on the surface of Mars using the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft, scientists have discovered the three ages of Martian geological history and found valuable clues as to where life might ...
Apr 21, 2006 |
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Towards the magnetic fridge
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered a material that gives a whole new complexion to the term 'fridge magnet'. When this alloy is placed in a magnetic field, it gets colder. Karl Sandeman and his co-workers ...
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Semiconductors slow light
'The speed of light' is a byword for the extremes of rapidity: nothing travels faster than light. But Chris Phillips of Imperial College in London and co-workers have found a new way to apply the brakes to light. As Phillips ...
Apr 21, 2006 |
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A slice of carbon could work wonders with chips
Move over silicon: the hottest new material in electronics could be sitting inside the humble pencil. At the Institute of Physics' Condensed Matter and Materials Physics conference at the University of Exeter on Thursday ...
Apr 21, 2006 |
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Argonne, Fermilab sign collaborative agreement aimed at multi-billion-dollar project
Two U.S. Department of Energy laboratories, Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, signed a Memorandum of Understanding today to enhance cooperation between the two laboratories on R&D projects. ...
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