Archive: 10/25/2007
HIV patients sicker when seeking care than in the past
It was hoped that as HIV treatment improved and as HIV-related public health initiatives encouraged people to be tested for the disease and seek care, that HIV-infected patients would seek care quickly. Unfortunately, a new ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Research sheds new light on how diseases jump across species
Researchers at the University of Leeds have made a breakthrough in understanding a virus which poses one of the greatest global disease threats to wild carnivores including lions, African wild dogs and several types of seal.
Biology /
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Scientists find new causes for neurodegeneration
Diseases that cause neurons to break-down, such as Alzheimer's, Multiple Sclerosis and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (Mad Cow Disease), continue to be elusive to scientists and resistant to treatments.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Recognizing someone's name but forgetting how you met them is all in your head
New research from The University of Western Ontario suggests the sometimes eerie feeling experience when recognizing someone, yet failing to remember how or why, reveals important insight into how memory is wired in the human ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Meteor no longer prime suspect in great extinction
The greatest mass extinction in Earth’s history also may have been one of the slowest, according to a study that casts further doubt on the extinction-by-meteor theory.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 25, 2007 |
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope gets 'SpaceWired'
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will use a new advanced technology network interface called "SpaceWire" that enables the components on the telescope to work more efficiently and more reliably with each other.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 25, 2007 |
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NEC Develops Security Minded -Picture Perfect ATM Display
NEC has developed a sharp, clear security minded module for ATM technology. Sensing the ever challenging problems of identity and personal data theft, NEC has developed a wide and narrow angle display. The ...
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Discovery at Space Station, Joint Operations Begin
The STS-120 crew entered the International Space Station for the first time after the hatches between the station and Space Shuttle Discovery opened at 10:39 a.m. EDT today.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Underground CO2 storage study to begin
The University of Texas has received a $38 million subcontract to conduct the first U.S. long-term study of underground carbon dioxide storage.
Oct 25, 2007 |
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NASA announces $2M lunar lander prize
The U.S. space agency announced it will offer $2 million in prizes to competing teams successfully demonstrating a prototype lunar lander.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Duke Energy Indiana seeks energy sources
Duke Energy Indiana issued a request for proposals Wednesday, seeking bids for power generated from renewable energy sources.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 25, 2007 |
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NHS trust sending spies into clinics
A British health trust is sending fake patients into outpatient clinics to report back with reviews of staff and cleaning standards.
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Hitachi develops finger vein authentication technology for steering wheels
Hitachi, Ltd. announced today the development of finger vein authentication technology which provides authorized driver verification in a fraction of a second just by gripping the steering wheel.
Oct 25, 2007 |
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