(AP) -- Even the news industry's free fall probably will not be enough to wipe out complicated federal rules designed to restrain the power of media companies.
Telecom
Jun 20, 2010
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(AP) -- A showdown looms this week over the 25-year ban on commercial whaling: Should it be eased, which might mean fewer whales are killed? Or should it remain - leaving Japan, Norway and Iceland to hunt down as many whales ...
Ecology
Jun 20, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of Sydney have brought silicon chips closer to performing all-optical computing and information processing that could overcome the speed limitations intrinsic to electronics, ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 20, 2010
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Batteries might gain a boost in power capacity as a result of a new finding from researchers at MIT. They found that using carbon nanotubes for one of the battery's electrodes produced a significant increase — up to tenfold ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 20, 2010
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Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have found a way to disable a common protein that often thwarts chemotherapy treatment of several major forms of cancer.
Biochemistry
Jun 20, 2010
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A team of bioengineers from the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Medicine and Engineering have trained a computer neural network model to accurately predict how blood platelets would respond to complex conditions ...
Biotechnology
Jun 20, 2010
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New results from an investigation into Antarctica's potential contribution to sea level rise are reported this week (Sunday 20 June) by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 20, 2010
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In the summer of 2002, a week of heavy rains in Central Texas caused Canyon Lake -- the reservoir of the Canyon Dam -- to flood over its spillway and down the Guadalupe River Valley in a planned diversion to save the dam ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 20, 2010
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Dutch researchers want to develop solar cells with an efficiency of over 65 percent by means of nanotechnology.
Nanomaterials
Jun 20, 2010
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(AP) -- The government and Australia's largest telecommunications company announced a deal Sunday that clears a major hurdle to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's plans for a superfast national broadband network.
Telecom
Jun 20, 2010
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