Discovery brings new type of fast computers closer to reality

Discovery brings new type of fast computers closer to reality

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (34) | comments 1

Physicists at UC San Diego have successfully created speedy integrated circuits with particles called "excitons" that operate at commercially cold temperatures, bringing the possibility of a new type of extremely ...


Lab-on-a-Chip Performs 1,000 Chemical Reactions At Once

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Flasks, beakers, and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in medicinal chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a benchtop, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer and instantly run thousands ...


Researchers discover a new antibacterial lead

Researchers discover a new antibacterial lead

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Antibiotic resistance has been a significant problem for hospitals and health-care facilities for more than a decade. But despite the need for new treatment options, there have been only two ...


Residents search among the rubble of a collapsed building in Dujiangyan southwest China Sichuan province

Sichuan quake was once-in-4,000-year event: scientists

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 3

People who were killed, injured or bereaved in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake had the cruel misfortune to be victims of an event that probably occurs just once in four millennia, seismologists said on Sunday.


Swine flu shot: Intense tracking for side effects

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(AP) -- More than 3,000 people a day have a heart attack. If you're one of them the day after your swine flu shot, will you worry the vaccine was to blame and not the more likely culprit, all those burgers and fries?


A man works on his laptop at a beef cattle farm near the small Australian town of Harden

Australia embarks on great broadband adventure

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

From snowy mountains and sun-baked deserts to the steamy tropical north, Australia has begun wiring its vast expanse with a high-tech broadband network in a giant project being closely followed abroad.


Geneva's smoking ban returns after one-year break

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A ban on smoking in public places will return to Switzerland's Geneva canton after being approved in a referendum Sunday, a year after a court ended a first bid to prohibit lighting up.


Feds reviewing humpback whale endangered status (AP)

Feds reviewing humpback whale endangered status

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The federal government is considering taking the humpback whale off the endangered species list in response to data showing the population of the massive marine mammal has been steadily growing in ...


What's government's role in making the Web secure? (AP)

What's government's role in making the Web secure?

Technology / Internet

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- There is no kill switch for the Internet, no secret on-off button in an Oval Office drawer.


Ballot counters count the votes in Berlin

German officials to probe Twitter election leaks

Technology / Internet

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

German election officials Sunday said they would investigate the appearance of broadly accurate exit poll results on the Twitter microblogging site before voting had ended.


SKorea unveils new guidelines on mobile fees

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

South Korea's telecoms watchdog on Sunday unveiled new guidelines on mobile phone fees following mounting complaints over high charges.


Federal program misses problem nursing homes

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A government program that brings extra scrutiny to poorly performing nursing homes leaves out hundreds of troubled facilities, investigators report.


Changes appear to be in store this week for the low profile but powerful body that administers the Web.

Changes loom for ICANN

Technology / Internet

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Changes appear to be in store this week for the low profile but powerful body that administers the Web.


Paper: Dialysis patients not told of transplants

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Thousands of kidney patients in the United States start dialysis without first being told of kidney transplants that would be cheaper and lead to longer lives, according to a four-month newspaper investigation published ...



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