Cheaper and smaller inverters for solar panels
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New technology could enable people to generate their own power economically at home and then feed it into the national grid on a very small scale. Cuauhtemoc Rodriguez, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, ...
More evidence chicxulub was too early
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A new study of melted rock ejected far from the Yucatan's Chicxulub impact crater bolsters the idea that the famed impact was too early to have caused the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs 65 million ...
Scientists show that children think like scientists
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Even preschoolers approach the world much like scientists: They are convinced that perplexing and unpredictable events can be explained, according to an MIT brain researcher's study in the April issue of Child Development.
Tiny water purification packet helps save lives worldwide
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Chemists have developed a powerful household water purification system that puts the cleansing power of an industrial water treatment plant into a container the size of a ketchup packet. The researchers have shown that the ...
Panasonic heats up next-generation DVD war (Update)
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The Panasonic brand maker said Wednesday it will start selling its first Blu-ray high-definition DVD player in North America in September as electronics makers prepare to go to battle over two rival formats.
Minimal genome should be twice the size, study shows
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The simplest bacteria need almost twice as many genes to survive than scientists first believed, according to new research published in Nature (30 March 2006).Bacteria are some of the simplest forms of life and have been s ...
Asian carp problem solution: Eat them?
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Illinois State Sen. Mike Jacobs, D-Moline, is reportedly proposing a simple solution to his state's Asian carp problem: eat them.
Study: Video games can act as analgesics
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A Wheeling Jesuit University student study suggests playing sports and fighting video games produces a dramatic level of pain distraction.
Scientists discover new gene responsible for spread of cancer
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have identified a new gene that causes the spread of cancer. Professor Philip Rudland, Dr Guozheng Wang and Dr Roger Barraclough from the University’s Cancer and Polio Research Fu ...
Intel designs rugged PC for rural India
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Intel is introducing a new personal computer designed to meet the demands of India's often-rugged countryside.
Going With The Flow
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As our technology shrinks ever smaller, commercial manufacturing and biological and medical research follows suit. Sometime in the relatively near future, asserts Joel Koplik, a professor at the City College of the City University ...
NASA Prepares for Space Exploration in Undersea Lab
Mar 29, 2006 |
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NASA will send three astronauts and a Cincinnati doctor under the ocean next month to test space medicine concepts and moon-walking techniques. During the mission, called the NASA Extreme Environment Mission ...
Engineers building 'erasible' detectors, 'nanobrushes' and DNA 'highrises'
Mar 29, 2006 |
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A Duke University engineering group is doing pioneering work at very diminutive dimensions. Their basic studies could lead to genetically engineered proteins that can form erasable chemical detectors; self-grown forests of ...
Is 'super-broadband' worth it for business?
Mar 29, 2006 |
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Telecommunications researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a system with the potential to deliver the fastest broadband and wireless access yet to businesses in the next five years.
Cellular nanoscale drug delivery from the inside out
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Delivering a dose of chemotherapy drugs to specific cancer cells without the risk of side affects to healthy cells may one day be possible thanks to a nanoscale drug delivery system being explored by researchers at the U.S. ...
