Toshiba Launches 1.8 inch 250Gb SATA Hard Drive
Sep 26, 2008 |
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Toshiba has announced their new MKxx29GSG series 1.8-inch SATA Hard drives, including the 1.8-inch 250GB(MK2529GSG) hard drive, which is the first in the industry.
Tweezers Trap Nanotubes by Color
Sep 26, 2008 |
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Singled-walled carbon nanotubes are graphene sheets wrapped into tubes, and are typically made up of various sizes and with different amounts of twist (also known as chiralities). Each type of nanotube has its own electronic ...
New way to make malaria medicine also first step in finding new antibiotics
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Sep 26, 2008 |
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University of Illinois microbiology professor William Metcalf and his collaborators have developed a way to mass-produce an antimalarial compound, potentially making the treatment of malaria less expensive.
Field of the future -- ecological experiment simulates conditions in 2100
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 26, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new experiment to find out how British plant ecosystems may be affected by future changes to climate and biodiversity is underway at Imperial College London.
Compound could help detect chemical, biological weapons
Sep 26, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A light-transmitting compound that could one day be used in high-efficiency fiber optics and in sensors to detect biological and chemical weapons at long distance almost went undiscovered ...
Professors teach robot to 'play ball'
Sep 26, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Baseball is elegant in its simplicity. Pitch a ball, hit the ball. Score more runs than your opponent and you win the game.
Sexual practice of polygyny skews genetic variability
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Sep 26, 2008 |
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Researchers have found DNA evidence that polygyny, the practice among males of siring children with multiple female partners at the same time or successively, has led to an excess of genetic diversity on the X chromosome ...
NASA Stardust Capsule To Go On Display At Smithsonian
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 26, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Having returned the world's first particles from a comet, NASA's Stardust sample return capsule will join the collection of flight icons in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum ...
Don't blame cities for climate change, see them as solutions
Sep 26, 2008 |
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Cities are being unfairly blamed for most of humanity's greenhouse gas emissions and this threatens efforts to tackle climate change, warns a study in the October 2008 issue of the journal Environment and Urbanization.
Toddlers' focus on mouths rather than on eyes is a predictor of autism severity
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Scientists at Yale School of Medicine have found that two-year-olds with autism looked significantly more at the mouths of others, and less at their eyes, than typically developing toddlers. This abnormality ...
UW science photo takes second in national contest
Sep 26, 2008 |
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With a photograph that embodies the unexpected – and sometimes breathtaking – outcomes of science, University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student Jenna Eun has won second place in the 2008 Science and Engineering ...
Neuroscientists Identify Brain Regions Responsible for Warding off Negative Emotion
Sep 26, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of cognitive neuroscientists from Columbia University has identified the brain pathways responsible for the body's emotional defense against gruesome and other aversive forms of imagery. ...
Researchers identify novel mechanism for regulation of gene expression
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Sep 26, 2008 |
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The Stowers Institute's Conaway Lab has demonstrated that an enzyme called Uch37 is kept in check when it is part of a human chromatin remodeling complex, INO80. The results were published in today's issue of Molecular Ce ...
Study: Ballplayers use different tactics to repair images
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As steroid-use scandals have threatened the reputations of Major League Baseball’s most prominent players during the past several years, those players have used a variety of strategies to repair their images, a new study ...
Optimism experts handicap the presidential election with about 6 weeks remaining until Nov. 4
Sep 26, 2008 |
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With less than six weeks until the general election, a University of Pennsylvania study analyzing the relative optimism of the 2008 presidential and vice presidential candidates has found Barack Obama and John McCain to be ...
