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Networking: Syndicated online content

The cost of online content continues to climb, but Internet retailers are not paying the full price for producing it, sources are telling United Press International's Networking column.

Technology / Internet

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Engineering electrically conducting tissue for the heart

Patients with complete heart block, or disrupted electrical conduction in their hearts, are at risk for life-threatening rhythm disturbances and heart failure. The condition is currently treated by implanting ...

Medicine & Health /

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Full speed ahead for cosmic ray project

Construction is accelerating on a $17 million cosmic ray observatory west of Delta, Utah, thanks to two U.S. agencies: the Bureau of Land Management issued a permit, and the National Science Foundation approved ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 19, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Single-electron ammeter based on bidirectional counting of single-electrons

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, in collaboration with the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the Japan Science and Technology Agency, and the Tohoku University, has successfully demonstrated an extremely ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 19, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Sticky Surfaces Turn Slippery With the Flip of a Molecular Light Switch

Changing a surface from sticky to slippery could now be as easy as flipping a molecular light switch. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created an “optically switchable” material that alters its surface ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 19, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Recreation Of Butterfly Speciation Event

In a matter of months, butterflies sporting the yellow and red wing color pattern of a wild species were created through simple laboratory crosses of two other wild species, researchers report in the June 15, 2006 edition ...

Biology /

created Jun 19, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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