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Britain's MI5 seeking real 'Q'
Apr 19, 2009 |
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James Bond always went to Q to keep one step ahead of the enemy with the latest smart gadgets, and now the real-life British spies of MI5 are to get their own technology mastermind.
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Fooled by your 'friends'
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 14, 2009 |
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Do not get too friendly with your investment adviser. It lowers your guard and increases your risk of being deceived, warn BI researchers Harald Biong and Kenneth H. Wathne.
Researchers identify novel regulatory mechanism in inflammatory signaling of immune cells
Jan 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using cancer cells that were originally isolated from an anaplastic large cell lymphoma patient, two researchers, including a faculty member of The University of Texas at Austin's College of Pharmacy, have ...
US presidential candidates and their views on scientific issues
Jan 03, 2008 |
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What are the United States presidential candidates’ positions on scientific topics ranging from evolution to global warming? A special news report, which is being published in the 4 January issue of the journal Science, addres ...
New model of female condom could bring wider use
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Apr 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Advocates of the female condom are promoting a less costly, more user-friendly version that they hope will vastly expand its role in the global fight against AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Eliminating the threat of nuclear arms
Feb 04, 2009 |
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President Barack Obama has made his intention of eliminating all nuclear weapons a tenet of his administration's foreign policy. Professor Sidney Drell, a US theoretical physicist and arms-control expert, explains in February's ...
NASA faces deadline for tough decisions on shuttle
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- NASA is facing a critical deadline to make its biggest decision in a generation: whether to go forward with plans to retire the space shuttle fleet and replace it with a new mode of space travel. ...
UW undergrads discover more than 1,300 asteroids
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 08, 2007 |
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Undergraduate astronomy students at the University of Washington combing through images from a specialized telescope have discovered more than 1,300 asteroids that had never before been observed. That is about one out of ...
Cybersecurity expert says White House lack of 'czar' is subpar
Jun 03, 2009 |
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A Purdue University cybersecurity expert is skeptical that the new U.S. cybersecurity coordinator will have enough clout to serve as more than a glorified cheerleader with the way the White House has created the position.
Organizing an Earth Systems Science Agency
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 03, 2008 |
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In an article published today in the journal Science, a group of former senior federal officials call for the establishment of an independent Earth Systems Science Agency (ESSA) to meet the unprecedented environmental and ec ...
'One keypad per child' lets schoolchildren share screen to learn math (w/ Video)
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 10, 2009 |
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The slogan is "one laptop per child." But it will be a long time before that is true everywhere in the world. Meanwhile, a new device aims to make a situation that is common in poor areas - one computer shared ...
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