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The science of hammering
Jun 28, 2009 |
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Scientists are studying hammering ability as a model for difficult motor tasks. The results, to be presented on Sunday, June 28, at the Society for Experimental Biology meeting, indicate that there is a surprising ...
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Men Are More Accurate than Women When Hitting a Target with Force in the Dark
Jun 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Could it be that men have evolved to be more accurate at hitting a target with a weapon in the dark than women? That’s the surprising question left after a recent small study of human biomechanics conducted ...
Active ingredients in marijuana found to spread and prolong pain
Aug 13, 2009 |
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Imagine that you're working on your back porch, hammering in a nail. Suddenly you slip and hit your thumb instead — hard. The pain is incredibly intense, but it only lasts a moment. After a few seconds (and a few unprintable ...
Next version of Microsoft Office coming in 2010
Apr 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp.'s next version of its Office desktop programs will reach consumers next year, though not likely in conjunction with the Windows 7 operating system.
Scrap Google book settlement and start fresh
Sep 04, 2009 |
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At first blush, Google's plan to digitize millions of books seemed like a grand idea, opening up the world's libraries to readers everywhere.
NASA Invites Students to Name New Mars Rover
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is looking for the right stuff, or in this case, the right name for the next Mars rover. NASA, in cooperation with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures' movie WALL-E from Pixar Animation ...
Engineers create intelligent molecules that seek-and-destroy diseased cells
Feb 13, 2009 |
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Current treatments for diseases like cancer typically destroy nasty malignant cells, while also hammering the healthy ones. Using new advances in synthetic biology, researchers are designing molecules intelligent enough to ...
Company to offer 3-D navigation for 3G
Feb 15, 2006 |
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An Israeli company exhibiting at this week's 3GSM 2006 conference in Barcelona, Spain, plans to announce that its 3-D navigation technology, currently available in some Japanese cars, will be accessible to mobile devices ...
Team finds Yellowstone alga that detoxifies arsenic
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Arsenic may be tough, but scientists have found a Yellowstone National Park alga that's tougher.
'McDonalization' of frogs: Frog fungus hammering biodiversity of communities
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Sometimes to see something properly, you have to stand farther back. This is true of Chuck Close portraits where a patchwork of many small faces changes into one giant face as you back away.
GPS cell phone apps challenge standalone devices
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The growth of cell phones with global-positioning technology is making life uncertain for the makers of personal navigational devices that help drivers figure out where they are and where to go.
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