Archive: 02/25/2008
STOP terrorism software
Researchers at the University of Maryland’s Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) have developed the SOMA Terror Organization Portal (STOP) allowing analysts to query automatically learned rules on terrorist organization ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 25, 2008 |
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Honey bee invaders exploit the genetic resources of their predecessors
Like any species that aspires to rule the world, the honey bee, Apis mellifera, invades new territories in repeated assaults. A new study demonstrates that when these honey bees arrive in a place that has ...
Biology /
Feb 25, 2008 |
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Two oxygenation events in ancient oceans sparked spread of complex life
The rise of oxygen and the oxidation of deep oceans between 635 and 551 million years ago may have had an impact on the increase and spread of the earliest complex life, including animals, according to a study ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 25, 2008 |
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Rats on islands disrupt ecosystems from land to sea, researchers find
Seabird colonies on islands are highly vulnerable to introduced rats, which find the ground-nesting birds to be easy prey. But the ecological impacts of rats on islands extend far beyond seabird nesting colonies, ...
Biology /
Feb 25, 2008 |
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Scientists identify proteins that help bacteria put up a fight
Scientists have identified the role of two proteins that contribute to disease-causing bacteria cells’ versatility in resisting certain classes of antibiotics.
Biology /
Feb 25, 2008 |
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Blood testing for mood disorders
Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have isolated biomarkers in the blood that identify mood disorders, a breakthrough that may change the way bipolar illness is diagnosed and treated. The report will be published ...
Feb 25, 2008 |
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Hair Reveals Where Murder Victims Drank Water
University of Utah scientists developed a new crime-fighting tool by showing that human hair reveals the general location where a person drank water, helping police track past movements of criminal suspects ...
Feb 25, 2008 |
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Nanopores That Can Recognize, Separate Proteins and Small Molecules
Nanopores, holes less than one-thousand the width of a human hair, are capable of isolating strands of DNA or therapeutic drugs from a solution, based mostly on the size of the pores. Now, a chemist at the University of Massachusetts ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 25, 2008 |
4.2 / 5 (10) |
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Hormone therapy increases frequency of abnormal mammograms, breast biopsies
Combined hormone therapy appears to increase the risk that women will have abnormal mammograms and breast biopsies and may decrease the effectiveness of both methods for detecting breast cancer, according to a report in the ...
Feb 25, 2008 |
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Research finds being first in marketplace not always key to success
Marketing research from three universities suggests it's not always best to be first. Products from well-known brands may benefit from entering the market as followers rather than as the first of their kind because consumers ...
Feb 25, 2008 |
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And the Oscar Goes To... a Professor?
Daniel Day-Lewis, Tilda Swinton and the Coen brothers weren't the only ones honored at last night's Academy Awards. Ron Fedkiw, an associate professor of computer science at Stanford University also received ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 25, 2008 |
4.8 / 5 (4) |
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About one-quarter of women with HIV want to become pregnant
About one in four women who have tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) expect pregnancy and motherhood to be a part of their future, recent research suggests.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 25, 2008 |
5 / 5 (1) |
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Silica smart bombs deliver knock-out to bacteria
Bacteria mutate for a living, evading antibiotic drugs while killing tens of thousands of people in the United States each year. But as concern about drug-resistant bacteria grows, one novel approach under way at the University ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 25, 2008 |
4.9 / 5 (22) |
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More elderly Americans are living with heart failure
The number of elderly individuals newly diagnosed with heart failure has declined during the past ten years, but the number of those living with the condition has increased, according to a report in the February 25 issue ...
Feb 25, 2008 |
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Fujitsu to Release 2.5'' 500 GB Hard Disk Drive
Fujitsu Limited today announced the release of its new series of MHZ2 BT 2.5" hard disk drives with world-class capacity of up to 500 GB. Sales of the new series will begin at the end of May 2008.
Feb 25, 2008 |
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