FirstGov Search Engine was honored with the Pioneer Award by Federal Computer Week, announced the U.S. General Services Administration.

Technology - Internet

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Samsung launched Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) phone (model: SGH-P200) in Italian market. It is the world's first commercial mobile phone to which UMA technology is applied.

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Jul 18, 2006 2.5 / 5 (15) 0

Intel Corporation today unveiled five new products in the Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 Processor 9000 series. Previously codenamed “Montecito,” the new processors are designed for the most sophisticated high-end ...

Electronics - Hardware

Jul 18, 2006 2.9 / 5 (15) 0

Italy's Mount Etna -- the largest active volcano in Europe -- erupted for a third-day Monday, sending ash, fire and rocks more than 800 feet into the air.

Space & Earth - Environment

Jul 18, 2006 2.5 / 5 (25) 0

Nano-sized fluorescent probes that can slip inside living cells and elucidate life’s most fundamental processes, or track the effectiveness of cancer-fighting drugs, are barely noticed by the cells they enter, ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Jul 18, 2006 4.2 / 5 (22) 0

Plant genes share the same mechanism found in mammals in the way they are marked or ‘imprinted’ to switch on or off depending on their sex, just before fertilisation. Oxford scientists have now shown that ...

Medicine & Health -

Jul 18, 2006 3.5 / 5 (10) 0

Drownings along shorelines often are the result of rip tides and now a U.S. scientist says manmade structures are at least partly responsible.

Space & Earth - Environment

Jul 18, 2006 2.8 / 5 (4) 0

ESA's spacecraft constellation Cluster has hit the magnetic bull's-eye. The four spacecraft surrounded a region within which the Earth's magnetic field was spontaneously reconfiguring itself.

Physics - General Physics

Jul 18, 2006 4.8 / 5 (36) 0

A new study, published today in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has significant implications for the design of disease markers and the development of chemoreceptors used in human biomedical ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Jul 18, 2006 3.7 / 5 (14) 0

MIT engineers and scientist colleagues have a new vision for the future of Mars exploration: a swarm of probes, each the size of a baseball, spreading out across the planet in every direction.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jul 18, 2006 4.9 / 5 (22) 0

Businesses experiencing long delays in receiving and sending e-mail messages may have an unexpected culprit to blame: spam.

Technology - Internet

Jul 18, 2006 1.3 / 5 (3) 0

A popular, computer-based card game is helping Oregon Health & Science University researchers monitor cognitive changes in the elderly, a new study shows.

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Jul 18, 2006 3.3 / 5 (7) 0

Children aged about four suddenly become capable of recognising that an object can be described differently depending on how it is viewed. This apparently simple skill requires cognitive changes that are not ...

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U.S. scientists say dementia may rob a person of memory and focus, but the ability to offer advice about life's big questions seems to be preserved.

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Jul 18, 2006 3.8 / 5 (5) 0

A U.S. study suggests providing nutritional information with high school cafeteria lunch choices improves students' satisfaction with such programs.

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Jul 18, 2006 1 / 5 (1) 0