Bee keepers across U.S. suffering losses
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Apr 24, 2007 |
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Beekeepers across the United States are noticing a large loss in hives from year to year and it is being attributed to colony collapse disorder.
Linux Kernel Reaps the Fruits of Real-Time Technology
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More than half of the 1.2 million lines of code for the real-time kernel technology have been moved into the mainline Linux kernel over the past year.
Satellites Offer Sunny Outlook on Understanding Polar Climate, With Help of Cloudy Skies
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 24, 2007 |
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Far beyond signaling the day’s weather, clouds play a key role in regulating and understanding climate. A team of researchers recently completed a project to confirm what NASA satellites are telling us about ...
More nutritious, less toxic high-quality food helps reduce toxins in the food chain
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Apr 24, 2007 |
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Research led by Dartmouth scientists found that animals fed nutritious, high-quality food end up with much lower concentrations of toxic methylmercury in their tissues. The result suggests ways in which methylmercury—a ...
Government patents diesel fuel technology
Apr 24, 2007 |
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An innovative methodology developed by U.S. government scientists might help speed reformulated diesel fuels to market.
Researchers find level of special protein is critical to proper formation of muscles
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Apr 24, 2007 |
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Proper formation of the proteins that power heart and skeletal muscle seems to rely on a precise concentration of a "chaperone" protein known as UNC-45, according to a new study.
Free Anti-Rootkit Tools
Apr 24, 2007 |
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Many free tools are available to detect rootkits. Some also attempt to remove them.
Scientists unravel clue in cortisol production
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When a person's under stress or injured, the adrenal gland releases cortisol to help restore the body's functions to normal. But the hormone's effects are many and varied, lowering the activity of the immune system, helping ...
Dell Offers Solid State Drives on Select Notebooks
Apr 24, 2007 |
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Dell today announced that it is offering a 1.8-inch 32GB solid state drive (SSD) from SanDisk on Latitude D420 ultra-mobile and D620 ATG semi-rugged notebooks. The company is one the first to offer a flash-based drive as ...
What will the next 50 years bring in robotics research?
Apr 24, 2007 |
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Would a conscious robot need the same rights as a human being? Could robots one day take over the care of our ageing population? Will robots be our soldiers of the future? When will robots be able to do all the housework?
Moonlighting enzyme linked to neurodegenerative disease
Apr 24, 2007 |
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Friedreich's ataxia is one of those diseases few have heard of unless you know someone with the condition. For that individual -- usually a child or teenager -- it is devastating. Symptoms are mild at first: muscle weakness ...
4 universities collaborate to synthesize new materials, nanoscale devices
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 24, 2007 |
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The Army Research Office has awarded a potentially $7.5 million Multi-University Research Initiative (MURI) grant to scientists from Virginia Tech, the University of Pennsylvanian, Pennsylvania State University, and Drexel ...
Ultrasound upgrade produces images that work like 3-D movies
Apr 24, 2007 |
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Parents-to-be might soon don 3-D glasses in the ultrasound lab to see their developing fetuses in the womb "in living 3-D, just like at the IMAX movies," according to researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering.
Reasonably priced and battery-driven: a pocket PCR device
Apr 24, 2007 |
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A huge number of diagnostic techniques are based on PCR (the polymerase chain reaction): the use of PCR allows even the tiniest amounts of genetic material to be duplicated so that it can be analyzed. This should make things ...
Panel: Social Security funds gone in 2041
Apr 24, 2007 |
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The six-member Washington panel that oversees Medicare and Social Security spending says Medicare will become insolvent by 2019.
