Cambridge researcher creates revolutionary vehicle suspension design
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A new form of suspension that promises to revolutionise the experience of people who drive heavy goods vehicles has been designed by a Cambridge academic.
No Power Use in Standby: New Zero-Watt Monitor
Apr 28, 2008 |
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Computer monitors in standby mode will soon save far more energy. Fujitsu Siemens Computers has developed the world’s first monitor that requires no electricity at all in idle mode.
Scientists discover way to increase metabolism for weight loss
Apr 28, 2008 |
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Scientists from Melbourne’s Howard Florey Institute have discovered a way to aid weight loss and reduce the likelihood of developing diabetes by manipulating fat cells to increase the body’s metabolism.
A dash of salt grows healthier tomatoes
Apr 28, 2008 |
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Watering tomatoes with diluted seawater can boost their content of disease-fighting antioxidants and may lead to healthier salads, appetizers, and other tomato-based foods, scientists in Italy report. Their ...
Single-celled bacterium works 24-7, converting light to energy by day, moonlighting at night
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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have gained the first detailed insight into the way circadian rhythms govern global gene expression in Cyanothece, a type of cyanobacterium (blue-green algae) ...
Gene therapy improves vision in patients with congenital retinal disease
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In a clinical trial at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, researchers from The University of Pennsylvania have used gene therapy to safely restore vision in three young adults with a rare form of congenital blindness. ...
Are nanobots on their way?
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 28, 2008 |
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[The first real steps towards building a microscopic device that can construct nano machines have been taken by US researchers. Writing in the peer-reviewed publication, International Journal of Nanomanufacturing from Inders ...
Emissions irrelevant to future climate change?
Apr 28, 2008 |
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Climate change and the carbon emissions seem inextricably linked. However, new research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Carbon Balance and Management suggests that this may not always hold true, although it may ...
Scientists Explore Brain's Reaction to Potent Hallucinogen
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Brain-imaging studies performed in animals at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory provide researchers with clues about why an increasingly popular recreational drug that causes hallucinations ...
Beating the codebreakers with quantum cryptography
Apr 28, 2008 |
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Quantum cryptography may be essentially solved, but getting the funky physics to work on disciplined computer networks is a whole new headache.
Is happiness having what you want, wanting what you have, or both?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 28, 2008 |
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Some argue that happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. This maxim sounds reasonable enough, but can it be tested, and if so, is it true?
Inexpensive roof vent could prevent billions of dollars in wind damage
Apr 28, 2008 |
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Hurricanes often lift the roofs off buildings and expose them to havoc and damaging conditions, even after the worst of the wind has passed. A local roofer, Virginia Tech faculty members from architecture ...
Chalk one up for coccolithophores
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 28, 2008 |
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Scientists have feared that gradual acidification of the world's oceans would wreak havoc with organisms that build protective outer shells. But a new finding shows at least three species of coccolithophores ...
'New' Ancient Antarctic Sediment Reveals Climate Change History
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 28, 2008 |
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Recent additions to the premier collection of Southern Ocean sediment cores at Florida State University’s Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility will give international scientists a close-up look at fluctuations that ...
Shocking attitudes to Great War’s wounded revealed
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Diaries written by working class soldiers wounded in World War One have revealed how they silently endured brutal treatment by military nurses, doctors, physiotherapists and stretcher bearers.
