News tagged with time window

Wakey, wakey! Wake up refreshed with a brain-monitoring alarm clock

We all know the feeling, the short, sharp shock of waking to the sound of an alarm clock. Whether the traditional clattering metal bells, the incessant beeping of digital or the dulcet tones of today's radio news reader. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

In reversing motor nerve damage, time is of the essence

When a motor nerve is severely damaged, people rarely recover full muscle strength and function. Neuroscientists from Children's Hospital Boston, combining patient data with observations in a mouse model, now show why. It's ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physicists offer countermeasure to new quantum eavesdropping attack

(PhysOrg.com) -- As early communications systems using quantum cryptography become commercially available, physicists have been investigating new types of security attacks in an effort to defend against them. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Microsoft adds a collaboration feature to the Word Web App

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft is looking to make a move into Google's office suite functionality on the web. They announced on the Windows Live blog that they are adding a new feature to the Word Web App and ...

Technology / Software

created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast weblog

Study expands window for effective stroke treatment

Once symptoms start, there's only a tiny window of time for stroke victims to get life-saving treatment. Now, research from the Stanford University School of Medicine has cracked that window open a bit wider.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0