Europe all set for lunar mission Chandrayaan-1
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Sep 25, 2008 |
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Europe is participating in a big way in the Indian Space Agency’s Chandrayaan-1 mission to the Moon, by contributing three instruments. All these instruments have now been delivered, tested and integrated ...
Mars rover Opportunity sets out on its greatest journey yet
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Sep 25, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Mars rover Opportunity, which has just crawled out of the 800-meter-wide (875 yards) Victoria Crater is setting out on the longest journey of its life. It will take the rover roughly two ...
Probing Question: Will digital actors replace humans in Hollywood?
Sep 25, 2008 |
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They look like real actors, they walk like real actors, they talk like real actors. But with these stars there are no contentious contract negotiations or on-set meltdowns. They do exactly what the director ...
Hitachi Unveils Digital Signatures on Stand-Alone Memory Chips
Sep 25, 2008 |
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Hitachi announced today the development of a mechanism for attesting the authenticity of memory chips using highly secure digital signatures in a worldwide breakthrough. Since the mechanism requires neither a CPU nor a computational ...
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Reveals Rock Fracture Plumbing on Mars
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Sep 25, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed hundreds of small fractures exposed on the Martian surface that billions of years ago directed flows of water through underground Martian sandstone. ...
Study shows radiation device may customize therapy, enable some to avoid more lengthy treatment
Sep 25, 2008 |
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A study of the first approximately 100 patients who have received partial breast irradiation with a small, whisk-like, expandable device inserted inside the breast has shown that after one year, the device ...
New research finds workers more prone to lie in E-mail
Sep 25, 2008 |
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A pair of recent studies suggest that e-mail is the most deceptive form of communications in the workplace–even more so than more traditional kinds of written communications, like pen-and-paper. More surprising is that people ...
Bio-imaging mass spectrometry techniques reveal molecular details about complex systems
Sep 25, 2008 |
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Understanding biology at the systems level is difficult, especially when studying complex specimens like tissue slices or communities of organisms in a biofilm. Scientists must be able to identify, quantify ...
Traumatic brain injury to delinquent teens associated with mental problems
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Nearly one out of five delinquent youths suffer from traumatic brain injury, which can contribute to wide ranging mental illnesses, a new University of Michigan study shows.
Surgery unnecessary for 95 percent of those with asymptomatic carotid stenosis
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Research led by Dr. David Spence of Robarts Research Institute at The University of Western Ontario shows that with more intensive medical therapy, the risk of stroke has become so low that at least 95 per cent of patients ...
After the first decade of metagenomics -- adolescent growth spurt anticipated
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Mostly hidden from the scrutiny of the naked eye, microbes have been said to run the world. The challenge is how best to characterize them given that less than one percent of the estimated hundreds of millions of microbial ...
Scientists identify novel inhibitor of human microRNA
Sep 25, 2008 |
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Scientists at The Wistar Institute and their colleagues have identified, for the first time, a molecule that can regulate microRNAs – short strands of RNA that play a vital role in gene expression and are closely associated ...
Risky behaviors on TV may be modeled by inexperienced viewers
Sep 25, 2008 |
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Content analyses demonstrate that TV programming is highly saturated with sexual content and risky sexual behavior. A new study in the Journal of Communication shows that people with direct experience with such behavior are no ...
New approach to gene therapy may shrink brain tumors, prevent their spread
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Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers are investigating a new approach to gene therapy for brain tumors – delivering a cancer-fighting gene to normal brain tissue around the tumor to keep it from spreading. An ...
Published ENT surgical innovations fall drastically
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The number of cases of surgical innovation published in otolaryngic medical journals has fallen drastically since the late 1980s, leading researchers to question the impact of government oversight over surgery, according ...
