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Researchers identify pressure effects on nanomaterials

May 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | pda version

Transistors, lasers and solar-energy conversion devices may be easier to manipulate because of recent research by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists. The researchers defined the role high pressure ...


Major shift in HIV prevention priorities needed

May 08, 2008 | User rating: 1 / 5 after 2 vote(s) | pda version

According to a new policy analysis led by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the University of California, Berkeley, the most common HIV prevention strategies—condom promotion, HIV testing, treatment ...


Hitachi Delivers Performance Without Sacrifice in New 7,200 RPM Travelstar HDD

May 07, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

Hitachi Global Storage today began shipment of its fourth-generation 7,200 RPM mobile hard drive, the Travelstar 7K320.


Sprint Nextel silent on report of DT mulling bid

May 06, 2008 | pda version

(AP) -- Sprint Nextel Corp. was silent about its future Monday as reports emerged that the company was considering spinning off or selling Nextel and that Deutsche Telekom AG was investigating a bid to buy the struggling ...


Trouble in paradise: Warming a greater danger to tropical species

May 05, 2008 | User rating: 2.3 / 5 after 15 vote(s) | pda version

Polar bears fighting for survival in the face of a rapid decline of polar ice have made the Arctic a poster child for the negative effects of climate change. But new research shows that species living in the ...


Creating Highly Sought Magnetic Nanoparticles in One Step

May 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | pda version

Researchers from the University of Minnesota have demonstrated a one-step technique for producing a class of magnetic nanoparticles that could be used in everything from biomedical applications to data storage. ...


New fossil bird found

May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 18 vote(s) | pda version

Details of a fabulous new fossil bird from the world-famous fossil deposits of Liaoning in China, are published this week in the journal Science in China. Details of the bird's bone structure and feathers ...


Chemo fails to root out breast cancer stem cells: study

Apr 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 10 vote(s) | pda version

While chemotherapy can remove breast cancer tumors, it fails to root out the stem cells that can revive the cancer, researchers said in a study published Tuesday.


Getting to the roots of breast cancer

Apr 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 3 vote(s) | pda version

The lesson learned in eradicating dandelions from your yard could apply in treating breast cancer as well, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in a report that appears online today in the Journal of ...


Newspaper: FDA found concerns at Merck vaccine plant

Apr 25, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

(AP) -- Contaminated children's vaccines and other potentially serious concerns were spotted by federal regulators who combed Merck & Co.'s vaccine plant in the Philadelphia suburbs, according to a published report.


Scientists discover exotic quantum state of matter

Apr 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 77 vote(s) | pda version

A team of scientists from Princeton University has found that one of the most intriguing phenomena in condensed-matter physics -- known as the quantum Hall effect -- can occur in nature in a way that no one ...


Google accused of deception in selling AdSense keyword ads

Apr 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 10 vote(s) | pda version

(AP) -- An advertiser sued Google Inc. in federal court Tuesday claiming the company deceived him and charged for ads displayed on third-party Web sites, even though he left blank an "optional" box that seemed to address ...


How much progress has there been in vaccinating against Hib in the Americas?

Apr 22, 2008 | pda version

The bacterium Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) causes at least 3 million cases of severe disease each year, and about 400,000 children die annually due to pneumonia or meningitis caused by Hib.


Nanotechnology paves way for super iPods

Apr 18, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 50 vote(s) | pda version

A breakthrough by scientists from the University of Glasgow could see the storage capacity of an iPod increase 150,000 times.


Green Gel: Hybrid material made from polymers and proteins fluoresces and respnods to pH value and temperature

Apr 18, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have now developed a new strategy for the formation of hybrid materials from synthetic polymers and proteins. They have thus been able to fuse the specific biological ...


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