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Sandtrapped Rover Makes a Big Discovery

Sandtrapped Rover Makes a Big Discovery

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 21 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (35) | comments 11

Homer's Iliad tells the story of Troy, a city besieged by the Greeks in the Trojan War. Today, a lone robot sits besieged in the sands of Troy while engineers and scientists plot its escape.


UK police make 2 Trojan computer virus arrests

Technology / Internet

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 14

(AP) -- A couple suspected of helping spread some of the Internet's most aggressive computer viruses has been arrested in the English city of Manchester, police said Wednesday.


Field experiment on a robust hierarchical metropolitan quantum cryptography network

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Key Laboratory of Quantum Information (CAS), University of Science and Technology of China has recently demonstrated a metropolitan Quantum Cryptography Network (QCN) for Government Administration in Wuhu, China. The project ...


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Google rolls out preview of Wave

Technology / Internet

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Google hits a key milestone Wednesday for a product that the search giant hopes will transform how people communicate and collaborate online, and perhaps hook more users on Google's menu of Web-based services.


Wiretapping Skype calls: virus eavesdrops on VoIP

Technology / Internet

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(AP) -- Some computer viruses have a crude but scary ability to spy on people by logging every keystroke they type. Now hackers and potentially law enforcement have another weapon: a virus that can eavesdrop on voice conversations ...


'Phishing' drops; are scammers switching tactics?

Technology / Internet

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- Internet criminals might be rethinking a favorite scam for stealing people's personal information.


Quantum dot research could lead to medical advances

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Working with atomic-scale particles known as quantum dots, a Missouri University of Science and Technology biologist hopes to develop a new and better way to deliver and monitor proteins, medicine, DNA and ...


Trojan horse for ovarian cancer -- nanoparticles turn immune system soldiers against tumor cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

In a feat of trickery, Dartmouth Medical School immunologists have devised a Trojan horse to help overcome ovarian cancer, unleashing a surprise killer in the surroundings of a hard-to-treat tumor.


Small company working toward what could be a breakthrough: a drug that kills only cancer cells

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Maybe Hugh McTavish wasn't so tough after all. Seven years ago, doctors told McTavish he needed chemotherapy to treat his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. McTavish, then a 40-year-old patent attorney, was young and fit, so he asked ...


Researchers create prostate cancer 'homing device' for drug delivery

Researchers create prostate cancer 'homing device' for drug delivery

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new prostate cancer "homing device" could improve detection and allow for the first targeted treatment of the disease.


Researchers find vibrator use to be common, linked to sexual health

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Two Indiana University studies conducted among nationally representative samples of adult American men and women show that vibrator use during sexual interactions is common, with use being reported by approximately 53 percent ...


Australian researchers are set to begin human trials of a tiny nano-cell that acts as a "Trojan horse" against cancer

Hi-tech 'Trojan horse' can kill cancer cells: researchers

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 7

Australian researchers are set to begin human trials of a tiny nano-cell that acts as a "Trojan horse" against cancer cells, a breakthrough they say may curb the need for debilitating chemotherapy.


UK looks to young geeks to secure cyberspace (AP)

UK looks to young geeks to secure cyberspace

Technology / Internet

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Britain is hiring former computer hackers to join a new security unit aimed at protecting cyberspace from foreign spies, thieves and terrorists, the country's terrorism minister said.


Embryonic stem cells are pictured through a microscope viewfinder in a laboratory

Stem cell breakthrough gets closer to the clinic

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 3

The technology for versatile, grow-in-a-dish transplant tissue took a step toward clinical use Thursday when researchers announced they have found a safe way to turn skin cells into stem cells.


Study shows how Salmonella survives in environment

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have demonstrated how a single-celled organism, living freely in the environment, could be a source of Salmonella transmission to animals and humans.