Shuttle's mini PC goes easy on power consumption
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Shuttle, the Taiwan-based computer manufacturer, has been known for making small computers, but its newest PC will be its tiniest and greenest yet.
Sign language over a mobile phone
Aug 22, 2008 |
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A group at the University of Washington has developed software that for the first time enables deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans to use sign language over a mobile phone. UW engineers got the phones working together this ...
Even plants get sunburned
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Aug 22, 2008 |
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It is red, it burns and itches: a sunburn on our skin. However, too much sun is not only bad for humans. Many plants react sensitively to an increased dose of ultraviolet radiation, too. Yet they are dependent ...
Public involvement usually leads to better environmental decision making
Aug 22, 2008 |
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When done correctly, public participation improves the quality of federal agencies' decisions about the environment, says a new report from the National Research Council. Well-managed public involvement also increases the ...
The big gulp: consumers avoid extremes in soda sizes
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 22, 2008 |
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As portion sizes have increased, Americans' waistlines have expanded. And as a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research demonstrates, consumers are tricked into drinking more soft drinks when retailers eliminate small ...
Spectrograph Team Awaits October Hubble Servicing Mission
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 22, 2008 |
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A $70 million instrument designed by the University of Colorado at Boulder that will be inserted on the Hubble Space Telescope during an October 2008 servicing mission should help astronomers better understand how galaxies, ...
Relearning process not always a 'free lunch'
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Aug 22, 2008 |
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Researchers at Sheffield University and the University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom, have helped determine why relearning a few pieces of information may or may not easily cause a recollection of other associated, previously ...
The smart way to keep athletes in top physical condition
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Medical care for athletes competing at the Beijing Olympics involves more than just basic emergency care during the events. Pre-treatment and a thorough understanding of sports trauma, physiology, cardiology and biochemistry ...
Malaria researchers identify new mosquito virus
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Malaria Research Institute have identified a previously unknown virus that is infectious to Anopheles gambiae—the mosquito primarily respon ...
Measuring the auditory dynamics of selective attention
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Call it the cocktail party effect: how an individual can participate in a one-on-one conversation within a cluster of people, switch to another, pick up important comments while tuning out others, change topics and return ...
Elephant legs are much bendier than Shakespeare thought
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Aug 22, 2008 |
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Throughout history, elephants have been thought of as 'different'. Shakespeare, and even Aristotle, described them as walking on inflexible column-like legs. And this myth persists even today. Which made John Hutchinson from ...
Action research helps people make positive changes
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Certain kinds of research can help improve social problems, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. Participatory action research is the subject of the study by authors Julie L. Ozanne and Bige Saatci ...
Study shows improved quality of life for older women on HRT
Aug 22, 2008 |
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New evidence published shows that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can improve the health related quality of life of older women. HRT guidelines should be reviewed in light of this evidence, say the authors.
Going from ulcers to cancer
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Researchers have uncovered a big clue as to why some of the bacteria that cause stomach ulcers pose a greater risk for serious problems like stomach cancer than others; it turns out these bacteria can exploit the surrounding ...
Seeing through tooth decay
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Dental caries afflict at least 90% of the world's population at some time in their lives. Detecting the first signs of this disease, which can be lethal in extreme cases, just got easier thanks to work by researchers in India ...
