City buses turn to sewage for 'clean' fuel
Mar 22, 2009 |
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Can the key to "clean" energy be found down in the sewer? That's the idea in Oslo, where city officials soon plan to introduce buses that run on biofuels extracted from human waste.
First automated carbohydrate 'assembly line' opens door to new field of medicine
Mar 22, 2009 |
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Scientists from Germany today reported a major advance toward opening the doors of a carbohydrate-based medicine chest for the 21st Century. Much more than just potatoes and pasta, these carbohydrates may ...
Clinical trial backs use of special yogurt to fight stomach ulcer bacteria
Mar 22, 2009 |
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Results of the first human clinical studies confirm that a new yogurt fights the bacteria that cause gastritis and stomach ulcers with what researchers describe as almost vaccine-like effects, scientists in ...
Covering the bases: Quantum effect may hold promise for low-cost DNA sequencing, sensor applications
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 22, 2009 |
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A ghostly property of matter, called quantum tunneling, may aid the quest for accurate, low-cost genomic sequencing, according to a new paper in Nature Nanotechnology Letters by Stuart Lindsay and his collab ...
Studies suggest drinking coffee or tea may reduce the risk of stroke
Mar 22, 2009 |
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The role coffee and tea play in a person's risk of having a stroke got a little clearer recently as two large observational studies found that the beverages may actually provide a modest amount of protection.
Blue light specials: New materials boost efficiency of blue OLEDs by 25 percent
Mar 22, 2009 |
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Lighting consumes one-fifth of the electricity generated in the United States. Solid-state lighting offers tremendous potential to improve the situation - once major research challenges are overcome.
Scientists examine how social networks influence behavior
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 22, 2009 |
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Conventional wisdom holds that it's not what you know, it's who you know. But now scientists studying networking are starting to realize that when it comes to much in life, it's also who the people you know know, and perhaps ...
US economic stimulus money fuels 'smart' power grid surge
Mar 22, 2009 |
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Electric grids are getting smarter in an IBM lab in Texas as the promise of billions of US economic stimulus dollars fuels a drive to make power delivery more efficient and greener.
Scientists ID ten genes associated with a risk factor for sudden cardiac death
Mar 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One minute, he's a strapping 40-year-old with an enviable cholesterol level, working out on his treadmill. The next, he's dead.
Social Web sites face transparency questions
Mar 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Yelp.com prides itself on being a site where people can write reviews about pretty much anything and connect with similarly critical peers. Yet as the site grows, some of the businesses scrutinized on Yelp are turning ...
Hollow gold nanospheres show promise for biomedical and other applications
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new metal nanostructure developed by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has already shown promise in cancer therapy studies and could be used for chemical and biological ...
Mentally ill threat in nursing homes
Mar 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Ivory Jackson had Alzheimer's, but that wasn't what killed him. At 77, he was smashed in the face with a clock radio as he lay in his nursing home bed.
SPICE mission to explore the center of the solar system
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 22, 2009 |
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An imaging coronal spectrograph called SPICE (Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment), designed by scientists and engineers at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder has been selected by ESA and NASA ...
NASA weighs repair of jammed pin in third spacewalk
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 22, 2009 |
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Discovery astronauts prepared for a third and final spacewalk Monday, with a busy to-do list that may include unsticking a jammed restraint pin used to clamp a toolbox to the outside of the International ...
TV crime drama compound highlights immune cells' misdeeds
Mar 22, 2009 |
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Detectives on television shows often spray crime scenes with a compound called luminol to make blood glow. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have applied the same compound to much smaller ...
