Transmission congestion threatens to clog nation's power grid
Jul 27, 2006 |
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Inadequate investment in the power grid transmission network remains the Achilles heel of the nation's electric system, an engineer who specializes in utility policy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign says.
Purdue creates new low-cost system to detect bacteria
Jul 27, 2006 |
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Researchers at Purdue University have developed a new low-cost system that analyzes scattered laser light to quickly identify bacteria for applications in medicine, food processing and homeland security at ...
ISS Crew Checks Out Spacesuits
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 27, 2006 |
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Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Thomas Reiter have conducted a system check of their spacesuits and checked out tools to be used during the Aug. 3 spacewalk. One of their key tasks was familiarization by Williams and Reiter ...
Flick of a protein switches immune response
Jul 27, 2006 |
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A single protein can turn on and off a key component of the immune system by changing partners in an elegant genomic dance, said researchers at the University of Southern California and Harvard Medical School.
In Brief: TiVo ties up with BellSouth
Jul 27, 2006 |
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TiVo and BellSouth will be marketing jointly the television recording company's latest box and service package.
UV radiation causes 60,000 deaths a year
Jul 27, 2006 |
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The World Health Organization based in Switzerland estimates 60,000 people die each year from spending too much time in the sun.
Women ignore breast cancer on dad's side
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A U.S. study finds that when women tell doctors about their family breast cancer history they are less likely to report cancer in their father's families.
British cloning scientists to pay for eggs
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Women undergoing in vitro fertilization in Britain will soon be able to donate eggs for research in return for payment.
