Poll: People reluctant to buy cloned food
A survey indicates Americans are uneasy about cloned food products, with 43 percent believing such food would be unsafe to eat.
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The Web: Chinese economy facing IT threats
China's economy continues its incredible growth -- at an annual rate of 27.2 percent -- but the IT infrastructure at all the new offices, research parks and other projects isn't keeping pace and is increasingly imperiled ...
Nov 16, 2005
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Integral reveals new class of 'supergiant' X-ray binary stars
ESA’s Integral gamma-ray observatory has discovered a new, highly populated class of X-ray fast ‘transient’ binary stars, undetected in previous observations. With this discovery, Integral confirms how much it is contributing ...
Nov 16, 2005
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Student solves a 30 year old mathematics problem
UQ postgraduate student Daniel Horsley has solved a mathematics problem that has defied experts around the world for more than 30 years.
Nov 16, 2005
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Research Suggests RFID Is Making A Difference
Preliminary results of a University of Arkansas study for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. showed that the use of RFID technology reduced out-of-stocks by 26 percent. The RFID Research Center, a subunit of the Information Technology ...
Nov 16, 2005
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Marathon of Nano-Sprinters
Processive bio-molecular motors, which move actively along cytoskeletal filaments, drive the cargo traffic in cells and in biomimetic systems. A single motor molecule is sufficient for continuous transport of cargoes such ...
Nov 16, 2005
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Future cars could be fuelled by hydrogen technology
A small CSIRO-developed hydrogen device the size of a domestic microwave oven may be all you need to fuel your car in the future. A team at CSIRO Manufacturing and Infrastructure Technology has developed a small device that ...
Nov 16, 2005
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Spitzer Harvests Dozens of New Stars
Just in time for Thanksgiving, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has harvested a bounty of young stars. A new infrared image of the reflection nebula NGC 1333, located about 1,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation ...
Nov 16, 2005
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Ranks Of 'Environmental Refugees' Swell
Amid predictions that by 2010 the world will need to cope with as many as 50 million people escaping the effects of creeping environmental deterioration, United Nations University experts say the international community urgently ...
Nov 16, 2005
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Tomatosphere: Tomato Seeds In Students' Hands, After 18 Months In Space
The 400,000 tomato seeds that were brought back to Earth aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on August 9 were in the spotlight Monday. Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Robert Thirsk, accompanied by 550 students, kicked off ...
Nov 16, 2005
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