IBM Advances Web 2.0 Platform for Business
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Today at Lotusphere, IBM unveiled a range of Web 2.0 and collaboration tools to enable enterprise mashups and social software, and help clients improve agility and speed decision-making for an increasingly virtual, global ...
Fruit Cell Wall Proteins Help Fungus Turn Tomatoes From Ripe to Rotten
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Jan 23, 2008 |
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Using tomatoes as a research plant, scientists at the University of California, Davis, have discovered that two plant enzymes that occur in the plant's cell walls cooperate with each other to make ripe fruit more susceptible ...
OTC cough medicine: Not worthwhile for children or adults?
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Alert parents know that small children should not take over-the-counter cough medications. Now researchers say the stuff might not help adults much, either.
Cross ownership has positive effect on local media coverage, researcher finds
Jan 23, 2008 |
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The recent decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to loosen restrictions on cross ownership of newspapers and broadcast television stations in the same market has met with criticism from consumer advocates ...
DNA sensors found to be an effective artificial nose
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Jan 23, 2008 |
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In designing artificial noses modeled after biological olfaction, the challenge has been to generate a similarly large sensor repertoire with the requisite combinatorial complexity to detect odors in the real world. A further ...
Handwashing can reduce diarrhea episodes by about one third
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Both in institutions and in communities, interventions that promote hand washing lead to significant reductions in the incidence of diarrhoea.
British minister visits ESA space center
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Britain's minister of state for science visited the European Space Agency's operations center Wednesday -- the first visit from a British state secretary.
