Hitachi develops finger vein authentication technology for steering wheels
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Hitachi, Ltd. announced today the development of finger vein authentication technology which provides authorized driver verification in a fraction of a second just by gripping the steering wheel.
Why do autumn leaves bother to turn red?
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Oct 25, 2007 |
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Soils may dictate the array of fall colors as much as the trees rooted in them, according to a forest survey out of North Carolina.
Nokia Launches Free Indie Music Download Site
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Nokia has just launched the Independent Artists Club (IAC), a Web site (http://web-iac.nokia-asia.com) where anyone can go to listen to and download free songs submitted by independent musicians. ...
Recognizing someone's name but forgetting how you met them is all in your head
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 25, 2007 |
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New research from The University of Western Ontario suggests the sometimes eerie feeling experience when recognizing someone, yet failing to remember how or why, reveals important insight into how memory is wired in the human ...
Alice on Trial, Redux
Oct 25, 2007 |
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When Alice revs her engine at the start of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge qualifying rounds on October 27, multitudes of cameras will be pointing at her. But she'll only ...
NEC Develops Security Minded -Picture Perfect ATM Display
Oct 25, 2007 |
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NEC has developed a sharp, clear security minded module for ATM technology. Sensing the ever challenging problems of identity and personal data theft, NEC has developed a wide and narrow angle display. The ...
First IVM babies born in United Kingdom
Oct 25, 2007 |
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The first babies in the United Kingdom to be conceived by in vitro maturation without fertility drugs -- have been born.
Underground CO2 storage study to begin
Oct 25, 2007 |
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The University of Texas has received a $38 million subcontract to conduct the first U.S. long-term study of underground carbon dioxide storage.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope gets 'SpaceWired'
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 25, 2007 |
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will use a new advanced technology network interface called "SpaceWire" that enables the components on the telescope to work more efficiently and more reliably with each other.
Decision-makers seek internal balance, not balanced alternatives
Oct 25, 2007 |
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A researcher at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine suggests that psychiatrists may need to approach the treatment of psychiatric patients from a new direction – by understanding that such individuals’ ...
Frog study takes leaf out of nature's book
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Oct 25, 2007 |
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A brightly coloured tropical frog under threat of extinction is the focus of a new research project hoping to better understand how environment and diet influence its development and behaviour.
Linguists looking for a Pacific Northwest dialect
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Linguists generally believe the West is too young to have evolved separate identifiable accent features or words, as has happened in other areas of the United States, and they usually lump together everyone living west of ...
NASA announces $2M lunar lander prize
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 25, 2007 |
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The U.S. space agency announced it will offer $2 million in prizes to competing teams successfully demonstrating a prototype lunar lander.
Research sheds new light on how diseases jump across species
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Oct 25, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Leeds have made a breakthrough in understanding a virus which poses one of the greatest global disease threats to wild carnivores including lions, African wild dogs and several types of seal.
'Knocking out' cell receptor may help block fat deposits in tissues, prevent weight gain
Oct 25, 2007 |
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University of Cincinnati (UC) pathologists have identified a new molecular target that one day may help scientists develop drugs to reduce fat transport to adipocytes (fat cells) in the body and prevent obesity and related ...
