Archive: 10/29/2008
Powered by olive stones? Turning waste stones into fuel
Olive stones can be turned into bioethanol, a renewable fuel that can be produced from plant matter and used as an alternative to petrol or diesel. This gives the olive processing industry an opportunity to make valuable ...
Oct 29, 2008 |
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Digital projectors making grand entrance at movies
Digital projectors should soon replace film on more than 20,000 of North America's 42,000 movie screens.
Oct 29, 2008 |
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Metal hazard from table wines
Potentially hazardous levels of metal ions are present in many commercially available wines. An analysis of reported levels of metals in wines from sixteen different countries, published in the open access Chemistry Central Jo ...
Oct 29, 2008 |
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Agricultural Chemicals Linked to Infections in a Declining Amphibian Species
(PhysOrg.com) -- Amphibians around the world are on the decline from disease. In an article in this week's issue of the journal Nature, Jason Rohr of the University of South Florida (USF) and colleagues revealed ...
Oct 29, 2008 |
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Research team maps cell interactions
(PhysOrg.com) -- Proteins make up the machinery of the cell. Their interaction with each other is responsible for how the cell functions within a living organism. Intrigued by what these interactions may look like, scientists ...
Oct 29, 2008 |
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Breakthrough may ease electronics assembly
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Northeastern have demonstrated a way to use single-walled carbon nanotubes, at left, to ease large-scale manufacture of flat-panel displays and electronic memory devices.
Oct 29, 2008 |
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'Security-on-a-Stick' to protect consumers and banks from the most sophisticated hacker attacks
(PhysOrg.com) -- Resembling a memory stick with an integrated display, a prototype USB device developed at IBM's Zurich Research Lab brings a new level of security to online banking for consumers. Pilot devices ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Oct 29, 2008 |
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Locksmiths, Computer Scientists Say
(PhysOrg.com) -- UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 29, 2008 |
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FSU Historian's Arctic research has him sitting on top of the world
It's one of the coldest and most remote areas on Earth, but the Arctic region has long held great strategic interest for a number of nations. Now, a Florida State University researcher is leading an international ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2008 |
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In first national survey, patients give low scores to hospitals
The quality of hospitals across the U.S. is inconsistent. To address this issue, the federal government and private organizations have begun to publicly report data, such as how well hospitals treat certain conditions. But ...
Oct 29, 2008 |
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Researchers find aggressive phototherapy can improve neurodevelopmental outcomes in some preemies
Researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston say the use of aggressive phototherapy reduces the odds that tiny premature infants will develop neurodevelopmental impairment such as cerebral palsy, blindness, ...
Oct 29, 2008 |
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Membrane fusion at the synapse: Janus faced synaptotagmin-1 helps to keep the fast pace
Imagine a bathtub with two soap bubbles colliding but never fusing. Then you add detergent, and the surface of the water goes flat as the walls of the bubbles collapse and merge.
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African-American Canadians who receive kidney transplants fare better than those in US
African American kidney disease patients in both Canada and the United States are less likely than Caucasian Americans to have access to kidney transplants, but only African-Americans in the United States have worse health ...
Oct 29, 2008 |
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Researchers find negative cues from appearance alone matter for real elections
(PhysOrg.com) -- Brain-imaging studies reveal that voting decisions are more associated with the brain's response to negative aspects of a politician's appearance than to positive ones, says a team of researchers from the ...
Oct 29, 2008 |
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Obesity, other health problems delay MS diagnosis
People with pre-existing medical conditions, such as obesity, and vascular problems such as diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol, may experience a delay in being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), or experience ...
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