Archive: 10/15/2007
Britain readies for digital television
British television has begun its five-year switch from analog to digital, The Telegraph reported Sunday.
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Bluetongue jumps from cattle to sheep
Britain's bluetongue outbreak has jumped species, having been found in sheep after first infecting cattle this summer.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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80-million-year-old fossil found in Japan
The skull of a platypus-like dinosaur estimated to be more than 80 million years old has been discovered on a Japanese mountaintop near the town of Mifune.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
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People overestimate their self-reported sleep times compared to measures by a sleep test
Self-reports of total sleep times, both habitually and on the morning after a polysomnogram (PSG), or a sleep test, tend to be higher than objectively measured sleep times, according to a study published in the October 15 ...
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Hitachi Achieves Nanotechnology Milestone for Quadrupling Terabyte Hard Drive
Hitachi, Ltd. announced today they have developed the world’s smallest read-head technology for hard disk drives, which is expected to quadruple current storage capacity limits to four terabytes (TB) on a desktop hard drive ...
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Genes may make some people more motivated to eat, perhaps overeat
Science has found one likely contributor to the way that some folks eat to live and others live to eat. Researchers at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, have found that people with genetically ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
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Enhanced DNA-repair mechanism can cause breast cancer
Although defects in the "breast cancer gene," BRCA1, have been known for years to increase the risk for breast cancer, exactly how it can lead to tumor growth has remained a mystery. In the October 15, 2007, issue of the ...
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Expecting an afternoon nap can reduce blood pressure
Where does the benefit lie in an afternoon nap" Is it in the nap itself--or in the anticipation of taking a snooze" Researchers in the United Kingdom have found that the time just before you fall asleep is where beneficial ...
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