Archive: 05/06/2008
How to slash vehicle fuel use
It is possible to slash fuel use by all vehicles on U.S. roads to pre-2000 levels within a few decades, but doing so would require immediate action on several challenging fronts, according to a new analysis ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 06, 2008 |
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Smoke-free laws have no impact on employee turnover
Supporting the argument that smoke-free laws do not damage the hospitality industry, restaurants that ban cigarette smoking haven’t suffered from increased employee turnover, according to a new report published in the current ...
May 06, 2008 |
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Nanotube production leaps from sooty mess in test tube to ready formed chemical microsensors
Carbon nanotubes’ potential as a super material is blighted by the fact that when first made they often take the form of an unprepossessing pile of sooty black mess in the bottom of a test tube. Now researchers ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 06, 2008 |
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Unmanned aircraft to study Southern California smog and its consequences
Using sophisticated unmanned aircraft, research scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego hope to assess Southern California’s potential for climate change and better understand the sources ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 06, 2008 |
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Smart Miniature Pump
Medicines sometimes have to be administered in extremely small quantities. Just a few tenths of a milliliter may be sufficient to give the patient the ideal treatment. Micro-pumps greatly facilitate the dosage ...
May 06, 2008 |
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New discovery on role of vital protein that fights meningitis
A University of Leicester researcher has discovered how a protein in the blood – linked to defence against meningitis - plays a more vital role than previously understood in the body’s immune defence system.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 06, 2008 |
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Screw worm outbreak in Yemen
An outbreak of the insidious ´screw worm´ fly in Yemen, is threatening livelihoods, in a country where rearing livestock is a traditional way of life. In recent weeks, a Ministerial delegation was at the IAEA in Vienna, Austria, ...
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MGH researchers report successful new laser treatment for vocal-cord cancer
An innovative laser treatment for early vocal-cord cancer, developed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), successfully restores patients’ voices without radiotherapy or traditional surgery, which can permanently damage ...
May 06, 2008 |
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Creativity essential for climate targets -- existing -- housing
It is a great shame that the most creative professional group in the building trade, the architects, rarely apply themselves to existing housing. A large proportion of the Netherlands’ climate targets will after all have ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 06, 2008 |
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Is quantum Internet search on the way?
In classical computing, random access memory (RAM) is needed to make things “work.” But it is subject to a certain level of energy loss. But what if you could create low-energy quantum access memory (QRAM) that would not ...
May 06, 2008 |
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Lab in a Drop
Analysis and diagnosis in a chip format are coming of age, but their practical application has been limited because until now, the sample usually had to be prepared separately and on a nonminiaturized scale. Jürgen Pipper ...
May 06, 2008 |
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Genome sequence of Podospora anserina reveals unsuspected ability to use complex carbon sources
The model fungus Podospora anserina (P. anserina) has undergone substantial evolution since its separation from Neurospora crassa, as revealed from the Podospora draft genome sequence published in BioMed Central’s open access ...
Biology /
May 06, 2008 |
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Is bipolar disorder overdiagnosed?
A new study by Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University researchers reports that fewer than half the patients previously diagnosed with bipolar disorder received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder based on a comprehensive, ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 06, 2008 |
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Saving frogs before it's too late
With nearly one-third of amphibian species threatened with extinction worldwide, fueled in part by the widespread emergence of the deadly chytrid fungus, effective conservation efforts could not be more urgent. In a new article ...
Biology /
May 06, 2008 |
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Preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission in low-income countries
Can HIV transmission in pregnancy in low income settings be prevented with round the clock rapid testing in labor?
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
May 06, 2008 |
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