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Interview: Voom HD, cutting edge of tele programming

Voom HD is the little network that's trying hard to push high-definition programming to the masses.

Technology / Telecom

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Stake tussle erupts on Hutch India network

The two-month-long battle for control at Hutchison-Essar, the Indian cellular venture of the Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa Group, increased its tempo this week with Hutchison Whampoa also jumping into the race for control ...

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 28, 2006 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

In Brief: DT launching home triple-play broadband

Deutsche Telekom's T-Online division is launching a converged triple-play service for its home broadband customers, it was announced Friday.

Technology / Telecom

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Measurements may help show if constants are changing

Physicists at JILA have performed the first-ever precision measurements using ultracold molecules, in work that may help solve a long-standing scientific mystery--whether so-called constants of nature have changed since the ...

Physics / General Physics

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A biosensor layered like lasagna

In a mixing of pasta metaphors, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists have used electrostatic attraction to layer reactive biological molecules lasagna-like around spaghetti-like carbon nanotubes.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 28, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 0

University of Texas at Austin to study elusive dark energy

Light might soon be shed on one of the great enigmas of the universe -- dark energy --thanks to a $5 million challenge grant from Harold C. Simmons of Dallas to The University of Texas at Austin.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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New test can predict return of cancer

U.S. regulators have approved a test that reportedly can predict who are at high risk for a return of cancer after surgical removal of the prostate gland.

Medicine & Health /

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Scientists discover a master key to microbes' pathogenic lifestyles

A team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health reports the discovery of a master molecular sensor embedded in the spores of the fungi that triggers a transformation from ...

Biology /

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Synthetic Peptide Mimics Growth Factor Angiogenesis and Tissue Repair

Researchers from BioSurface Engineering Technologies, Inc. (BioSET) and the U.S. DoE's Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have developed a synthetic peptide that mimics the effects of a tissue growth factor known as fibroblast ...

Medicine & Health /

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Dual Properties of Carbon Nanotubes Revealed

For the first time, researchers have directly measured the electronic structure of individual carbon nanotubes whose physical properties had already been determined. This new study, pioneered by researchers ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 28, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (31) | comments 0

Nano World: Roadmap for nano-imprinting

Scientists could soon easily fabricate electronics and other structures only nanometers or billionths of a meter in size by stamping them out, following a new strategy that could help guarantee results, experts tell UPI's ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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Study Examines the Effect Sexually Objectifying Material Has on People Over Time

Americans are bombarded by thousands of media images each day, from advertisements to television shows. Many of these images reinforce ideas of physical attractiveness by sexual objectification, which focuses on bodies and ...

Medicine & Health /

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Next Generation Soyuz TMA Getting Ready For Flight

A Russian space official said the country's new digitally controlled Soyuz TMA orbital vehicles will be able to handle human spaceflight needs until the reusable KLIPER shuttle becomes operational in the next decade, RIA ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 28, 2006 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Russian State Commission Issues Results Of Proton Review

The Russian State Commission has completed its investigation into the Proton M/Breeze M anomaly that left the Arabsat 4A satellite in the wrong orbit eight weeks ago, during a mission for International Launch Services (ILS). ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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Masks not top flu fighter

As the discussion over a bird flu pandemic increases, U.S. health experts say surgical masks and similar devices will be of little help.

Medicine & Health /

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