Archive: 06/02/2006
Wireless World: PDAs reduce medical errors
Medical errors are declining dramatically at hospitals and healthcare centers that are using sophisticated wireless technology to let physicians communicate with nurses and other medical practitioners, experts tell UPI's ...
Jun 02, 2006 |
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In Brief: Taiwan aims for 4G wireless in 2012
The head of the Taiwan 4G organization says commercialization of next-generation wireless technology will occur no earlier than 2012.
Jun 02, 2006 |
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Brain on chip: Nerve tissue interfaced with a computer chip
Before informational input perceived by the mammalian brain is stored in the long-term memory, it is temporarily memorised in the hippocampus. Understanding the function of the hippocampus as an important player ...
Jun 02, 2006 |
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Discovery of How Bacteria Sense Their Environments
When humans taste or smell, receptors unique to each nerve cell detect the chemical and send signals to the brain, where many cells process the message to understand what we are smelling or tasting. But a bacterium is just ...
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Jun 02, 2006 |
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ISS crew completes spacewalk
U.S. space agency NASA's Jeff Williams and his Russian companion aboard the International Space Station have completed a spacewalk for making repairs.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 02, 2006 |
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Bridgestone Develops Electronic Paper Display
Bridgestone Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of tires and other rubber products, has succeeded in the development of the "world's largest-class, thinnest and flexible color display" as reflective electronic ...
Jun 02, 2006 |
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3G TV goes interactive
First there were Web cams. Then there were camera phones and 3G television streaming. Now there's BLOGTV, a kind of cable access for the 21st century.
Jun 02, 2006 |
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Smoking linked to premature death
A Japanese doctor has found that smoking is more dangerous to people's health than high levels of cholesterol, sugar and high blood pressure.
Jun 02, 2006 |
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Sexual attitudes changing in South Korea
Two-thirds of South Korean college students said premarital sex was acceptable, reflecting an increasingly liberal mindset among Korean youths, a survey showed.
Jun 02, 2006 |
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Electric Fish in Africa Could be Example of Evolution in Action
Avoiding quicksand along the banks of the Ivindo River in Gabon, Cornell neurobiologists armed with oscilloscopes search for shapes and patterns of electricity created by fish in the water.
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Jun 02, 2006 |
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Largest Ever Killer Crater Found Under Ice in Antarctica
Planetary scientists have found evidence of a meteor impact much larger and earlier than the one that killed the dinosaurs -- an impact that they believe caused the biggest mass extinction in Earth's history.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 02, 2006 |
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Ancient figs may be first cultivated crop
Ancient figs unearthed at an archaeological site in the Jordan Valley may be the earliest cultivated fruit, U.S. and Israeli scientists say.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 02, 2006 |
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Firm wants to pave Britain with old tires
A British company says that laying down roadways made of rubber on abandoned rail lines could be the solution to traffic congestion.
Jun 02, 2006 |
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