Archive: 07/03/2009
Energy-Efficient Intelligent House that Can Learn our Routines
The first home in the UK which can learn from its residents and take decisive action and text if it is being burgled or the door has been left unlocked, will be unveiled this week in Cairo.
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Nearly 90,000 swine flu cases reported worldwide: WHO
Some 89,921 people in 125 countries and territories have caught swine flu, with 382 having died since the outbreak was uncovered in April, World Health Organisation data released Friday showed.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Senator may have won fight over private rocket manufacturing
For months, a powerful Republican senator from Alabama has fought the Obama administration to block $150 million that the White House wanted to spend to help private companies build rockets capable of reaching the international ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Producing hydrogen from urine
(PhysOrg.com) -- You do two things at motorway services: fill up one tank and empty another. US chemists have combined refuelling your car and relieving yourself by creating a new catalyst that can extract ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Physicists Demonstrate Quantum Memory with Matter Qubits
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists have successfully operated a quantum gate between two remote particles of matter, marking an important step toward the development of a quantum computer. In ...
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Gene's novel role may provide key to treating liver and neurodegenerative diseases
Scientists at Singapore's Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI) have made a novel discovery about how the gene, "Fas-apoptosis inhibitory molecule" (FAIM), protects both immune and liver cells from apoptosis, or programmed ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 03, 2009 |
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US wants privacy in new cyber security system
(AP) -- The Obama administration is moving cautiously on a new pilot program that would both detect and stop cyber attacks against government computers, while trying to ensure citizen privacy protections.
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Australian scientists hail triple dinosaur find
Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard
(AP) -- Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Existing Parkinson's disease drug may fight drug-resistant TB
Existing drugs used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease could be repositioned for use in the treatment of extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis, which kills about 2 million people each year, according to a study led by ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Japan may add noise to quiet hybrid cars for safety
Japan's near-silent hybrid cars have been called dangerous by the vision-impaired and some users, prompting a government review on whether to add a noise-making device, according to an official.
Jul 03, 2009 |
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A rush of blood to the head -- anger increases blood flow
Mental stress causes carotid artery dilation and increases brain blood flow. A series of ultrasound experiments, described in BioMed Central's open access journal Cardiovascular Ultrasound, also found that this dilatory reflex ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 03, 2009 |
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'Jumping gene' diminishes the effect of a new type 2 diabetes risk gene
Research led by the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) has identified a new gene associated with diabetes, together with a mechanism that makes obese mice less susceptible to diabetes.
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Scrub tech may have exposed thousands to hepatitis
(AP) -- A former surgery technician may have exposed thousands of Colorado patients to hepatitis C when she swapped her own dirty syringes for ones filled with a powerful narcotic, federal authorities said Thursday.
Jul 03, 2009 |
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