News tagged with access node


Sorry no news are found ... Your search criteria may have been too narrow. You can quickly re-sort the news in different ways by clicking on the tabs at the top of this page.




Search results for access node


Growing Europe's nanowires

Growing Europe's nanowires

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed state-of-the-art nanowire 'growing' technology, opening the way for faster, smaller microchips and creating a promising new avenue of research and industrial ...


Tiny whispering gallery

Tiny whispering gallery: Sensor can detect a single nanoparticle and take its measurement

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Nanotechnology has already made it to the shelves of your local pharmacy and grocery: nanoparticles are found in anti-odor socks, makeup, makeup remover, sunscreen, anti-graffiti paint, home pregnancy tests, ...


In rural areas, more women falling into health care gap

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For Americans living in rural areas, obtaining and maintaining health care can be challenging. Aside from common barriers, including shortages of care providers and facilities, older women face additional challenges, according ...


Who gets expensive cancer drugs? A tale of 2 nations

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

The well-worn notion that patients in the United States have unfettered access to the most expensive cancer drugs while the United Kingdom's nationalized health care system regularly denies access to some high-cost treatments ...


FCC seeking to close programming access loophole

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- Federal regulators are seeking to close a loophole that allows cable TV operators to withhold sporting events and other popular programming that they own from rival providers such as satellite TV.


Education Budget Cuts to Cause Increase in Mobile Technology Use

Technology / Other

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As budget cuts in education continue, we will see more use of mobile technologies in the classroom in 2010, predicts Dr. Vivian Wright, a University of Alabama educator.


Obesity epidemic taking root in Africa

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa are the latest victims of the obesity epidemic. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health claim that overweight and obesity are on the increase among this group. ...


Proximity to convenience stores fosters child obesity

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Childhood obesity is directly related to how close kids live to convenience stores, according to the preliminary findings of a major Canadian study presented at the Entretiens Jacques-Cartier in Lyon, France. The ongoing ...


Want privacy on Facebook? Here is how to get some (AP)

Want privacy on Facebook? Here is how to get some

Technology / Internet

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- Over the past week, Facebook has been nudging its users - first gently, then firmly - to review and update their privacy settings.


NASA Launches Web Site for Teenagers That Want More Class

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has launched a new Web site created specifically for teenagers that provides teens access to current NASA spacecraft data for use in school science projects, allows them to conduct real experiments with ...



List of search results for access node