Archive: 10/17/2006
Portable 'lab on a chip' could speed blood tests
Testing soldiers to see if they have been exposed to biological or chemical weapons could soon be much faster and easier, thanks to MIT researchers who are helping to develop a tiny diagnostic device that could ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 17, 2006 |
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Lane departure warning systems help drowsy drivers avoid crashes
Four driver warning systems that may help those who fall asleep at the wheel were recently tested and evaluated by human factors/ergonomics (HF/E) researchers at Ford Motor Company.
Oct 17, 2006 |
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Genomic comparison of lactic acid bacteria published
With public concerns at a fevered pitch over the bacterial contamination of spinach, it is easy to lose track of how bland and deprived our world would be without the contribution to our food supply of such benign microbial ...
Biology /
Oct 17, 2006 |
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Special chip provides better picture of salmon health
How do you tell if a fish is fit and well? This is a question which has troubled farmers and biologists for years, but now scientists may have come up with the answer - using DNA chips. By studying the genes of Atlantic salmon ...
Biology /
Oct 17, 2006 |
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Colliding galaxies make love, not war
A new Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars. The ...
Oct 17, 2006 |
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Researchers Recommend Safe Listening Levels for Apple iPod
Hearing researchers will present the first-ever detailed guidelines on safe volume levels for listening to the Apple iPod portable music player with earphones. In a second study, researchers found that in-ear ...
Oct 17, 2006 |
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Graph States and Entanglement
One of the bigger problems with current experiments on linear optics quantum information is that as the system is scaled up, it leads to inefficient scaling, and this in turn limits implementation to small systems. Luming ...
Oct 17, 2006 |
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