Archive: 11/29/2006
Hybrid electric vehicle project announced
Two U.S. research organizations have signed a three-year agreement to assess the commercial feasibility of using plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
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Study: 1 in 5 British men drink heavily
A British study has suggested one in five men in the country can be classified as a "heavy drinker."
Nov 29, 2006 |
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Britain may restrict heart pump use
British researchers are urging the restricted use of an implantable pump designed to help heart failure patients while they wait for a transplant.
Nov 29, 2006 |
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Study: Marijuana may affect neuron firing
U.S. scientists have discovered the active ingredient in marijuana interferes with synchronized activity between neurons in the hippocampus of rats.
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Teams Explore Roots of Angkor Civilization
Five seasons of excavations at Ban Non Wat, in Northeast Thailand, have unearthed 470 human burials covering a time span of more than 2,000 years. Earthwatch-supported research at this great moated site, led ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 29, 2006 |
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H5N1 – bird ‘flu: What happens if the critical care system is overwhelmed?
Doctors, nurses, ethics experts and scientists are preparing plans to make fair decisions about who gets scarce treatment if bird ‘flu spreads to humans, creating a pandemic and overwhelming the critical care services, a ...
Nov 29, 2006 |
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Save the whales? Sure, but how many?
How many wildebeest should live in the Serengeti? How many grizzly bears should call Yellowstone home? Are there too few tigers in the world? Conservationist biologists grapple with the task of setting population targets ...
Biology /
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Researchers Grow 7 mm Carbon Nanotube Array
Nanotechnology revolves around the creation of technology — films, materials, devices, applications and systems — on a scale of 1–100 nanometers. But what is a nanometer? A nanometer is one billionth of a ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 29, 2006 |
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HiRISE Team Begins Releasing a Flood of Mars Images Over the Internet
The University of Arizona-based team that operates the high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, in conjunction with NASA, is releasing the first of what will be a non-stop flood of incredibly ...
Nov 29, 2006 |
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New safety recommendations set for turkey cooking
The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service has updated poultry cooking recommendations this year, including the recommendation that the bird be cooked to an internal temperature of 165 degrees Fahrenheit, said Lynn Paul, ...
Nov 29, 2006 |
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Phishing and pharming and fraud, oh my! Sleuthing the cyber swindlers
Technology has transformed the Internet into an accessible and speedy superhighway, yet it also has paved slick paths for crooks to prey upon innocent online travelers.
Technology / Computer Sciences
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December offers meteor shower and cluster of three planets
The Geminid meteor shower is usually the best of the year, but it tends to take a back seat to the Perseid shower of August. The Perseids have the advantage of a pleasant summer night, while the Geminids have ...
Nov 29, 2006 |
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Geobiologists Solve 'Catch-22 Problem' Concerning the Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen
Two and a half billion years ago, when our evolutionary ancestors were little more than a twinkle in a bacterium's plasma membrane, the process known as photosynthesis suddenly gained the ability to release molecular oxygen ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 29, 2006 |
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Spider man looks for answers in the forest
Dave Shorthouse admits he's obsessed with spiders, so it wasn't at all unusual for him to spend two years in the forests of the Peace River country, collecting and counting the critters for the good of the ...
Biology /
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New technology puts hand-held projectors within reach
Pocket-sized projectors capable of screening movies from a laptop or mobile phone could be on the market within three years, following a new deal agreed by the University of Cambridge.
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