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'Invisible bracelet' for emergency health alerts?
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Emergency health alerts for the Facebook generation? The nation's ambulance crews are pushing a virtual medical ID system to rapidly learn a patient's health history during a crisis - and which can immediately text-message ...
Room's Ambience Fingerprinted By Phone
Sep 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Your smart phone may soon be able to know not only that you're at the mall, but whether you're in the jewelry store or the shoe store.
Michigan Tech Team Models Molecular Transistor
Aug 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic gadgetry gets tinier and more powerful all the time, but at some point, the transistors and myriad other component parts will get so little they won't work. That's because when ...
No jobs, no insurance: hard times for young adults
Jul 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Emily Weinstein graduated from college into an economic meltdown, and as a self-employed jewelry maker she'll be lucky to bring in $16,000 this year.
Bent tectonics: How Hawaii was bumped off
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 03, 2009 |
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More than 80 undersea volcanoes and a multitude of islands are dotted along the Hawaii-Emperor seamount chain like pearls on a necklace. A sharp bend in the middle is the only blemish. The long-standing explanation for this ...
Nanowires may lead to better fuel cells
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The creation of long platinum nanowires at the University of Rochester could soon lead to the development of commercially viable fuel cells.
Researchers discover a potential on-off switch for nanoelectronics
Mar 03, 2009 |
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As electronic circuits shrink from finely etched lines in silicon wafers to nearly elusive proportions, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Columbia University ...
Researchers focus on building telescope at South Pole
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 09, 2008 |
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It's 40 degrees F below zero (with the wind chill) at the South Pole today. Yet a research team from the University of Delaware is taking it all in stride.
Pedal pusher: Engineering professor, students plan citywide bike paths
Dec 05, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An earthy mobile of cyclists hangs above Peter Furth’s office computer. A gift from his children, the dangling artifact originates from an African country where bikes are a primary mode of ...
Bronze age necklace unearthed
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A 4,000-year-old amber necklace has been discovered at a dig organised by a team of archeologists in Manchester.
Scientists shed light on how DNA is unwound so that its code can be read
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Nov 24, 2008 |
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Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have figured out how a macromolecular machine is able to unwind the long and twisted tangles of DNA within a cell's nucleus so that genetic information can be "read" and used ...
New method to overcome multiple drug resistant diseases developed by Stanford researchers
Aug 18, 2008 |
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Many drugs once considered Charles Atlases of the pharmaceutical realm have been reduced to the therapeutic equivalent of 97-pound weaklings as the diseases they once dispatched with ease have developed resistance to them.
Archaeologist Finds Oldest Known Gold Artifacts in the Americas
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 31, 2008 |
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Gold has long been more than a fashion statement, and wearing jewelry and other adornments made of it often connotes prestige. And it did not take long for ancient people to figure that out.
Sensor necklace aims to increase elderly and clinical trial participant drug compliance
Mar 05, 2008 |
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Researchers now have a possible solution for the one in three adults who fail to take their medicines as prescribed by their doctors, as well as for everyone else who occasionally forgets: a sensor necklace ...
Physicists discover gold can be magnetic on the nanoscale
Mar 03, 2008 |
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Physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have made important findings regarding gold on the nanoscale. They found that applying an electrical field on a surface-supported gold nanocluster changes ...
