News tagged with box
Through unique eyes, box jellyfish look out to the world above the water
Box jellyfish may seem like rather simple creatures, but in fact their visual system is anything but. They've got no fewer than 24 eyes of four different kinds. Now, researchers reporting online on April 28 in Current Bi ...
Apr 28, 2011 |
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Asus ships cardboard PC cases with motherboards (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- When you order components to build a new computer you don't really give a lot of thought to the box that they come in. You throw it out and keep what is inside. Then, ironically, you go out ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 03, 2011 |
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New national study finds boxing injuries on the rise; youth head injury rates also concerning
The risk and nature of injury in the sport of boxing has generated a great deal of controversy in the medical community, especially in relation to youth boxing. A new study, conducted by researchers in the Center for Injury ...
Mar 02, 2011 |
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Drugs warning -- check the label
A new study highlights inconsistencies in black box warnings - medication-related safety warnings on a drug's label - and argues for a more transparent and systematic approach to ensure these warnings are consistent across ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Woman can speak again after voice box transplant
(AP) -- A woman is able to speak again after she had a rare operation to replace her voice box, her doctors said.
Jan 20, 2011 |
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Light-up cereal boxes powered by shelves on display at CES
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cereal boxes with blinking lights may or may not be the next big thing, but the underlying technology could prove useful for many other potential applications. At the recent CES in Las Vegas, ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 11, 2011 |
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Google unveils faster Internet search (Update 2)
Internet powerhouse Google is giving Web searchers the thrill of speed with a turbo-charged engine that displays suggested Web links as fast as a person can type.
Sep 08, 2010 |
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Study: 'Carved-out' voters often struggle at ballot box
The age-old practice of dividing congressional districts evenly by population speaks to such American ideals as fairness and equality. But when a county's residents are carved into separate districts simply to maintain that ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 06, 2010 |
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Electronic voting no threat yet to the old style ballot box
They held elections within days of each other: The Philippines, a lively democracy where politicians get shot dead in the street and Britain, the rock solid 'mother of all parliaments'.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jul 12, 2010 |
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Google drops background images on homepage amid outcry (Update)
Google spruced up its homepage with images from artists, sculptors and photographers on Thursday, but dropped the feature after drawing the ire of users clamoring for the normally blank background.
Jun 10, 2010 |
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Telekom Austria turns phone boxes into car recharging stations
If you've run out of juice for your environmentally friendly electric car, a recharge may be only a phone call away, literally, under a new scheme unveiled by Telekom Austria here Tuesday.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 04, 2010 |
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Toyota secretive on 'black box' data
(AP) -- Toyota has for years blocked access to data stored in devices similar to airline "black boxes" that could explain crashes blamed on sudden unintended acceleration, according to an Associated Press ...
Mar 04, 2010 |
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Will Bloom box replace power grid? Details on Wednesday (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The hot energy news for this week comes in the form of a small box called the Bloom box, whose inventor hopes that it will be in almost every US home in the next five to 10 years. K.R. Sridhar, ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 23, 2010 |
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Scientists Unravel Evolution of Highly Toxic Box Jellyfish
(PhysOrg.com) -- With thousands of stinging cells that can emit deadly venom from tentacles that can reach ten feet in length, the 50 or so species of box jellyfish have long been of interest to scientists ...
Nov 18, 2009 |
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The Beatles Return to Mono
From the White Album to Yellow Submarine modern releases of the Beatles present their music in stereo sound. But this Christmas, hard-core Beatles fans will eagerly unwrap "The Beatles in Mono," an 11-CD box set designed ...
Nov 11, 2009 |
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