Scientists help Microsoft and Yahoo improve online security
(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists at Newcastle University have cracked the security behind the biggest names in global email services.
Computer Sciences
Oct 21, 2008
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NASA Returns to the Moon with Instruments on Indian Spacecraft
Two NASA instruments to map the lunar surface will launch on India's maiden moon voyage. The Moon Mineralogy Mapper will assess mineral resources, and the Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar, or Mini-SAR, will map the polar ...
Space Exploration
Oct 21, 2008
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Robotic ants building homes on Mars?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent discoveries of water and Earth-like soil on Mars have set imaginations running wild that human beings may one day colonise the Red Planet. However, the first inhabitants might not be human in form ...
Robotics
Oct 21, 2008
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HP Reveals Their Ipaq Data Manager & Voice Messenger Smartphones
(PhysOrg.com) -- HP's mysterious new smartphone entrants have just been revealed. The HP Voice Messenger will sell for €399 ($532) on November 5th and the Data Messenger will be selling for €499 ($665) on November 22nd. ...
Election forecast predicts democrats will gain 3 seats in Senate, 11 in House
An election forecast model developed by a political scientist 99 days before the 2008 elections and before the recent Wall Street crisis predicts significant Democratic gains in the 2008 congressional elections—including ...
Other
Oct 21, 2008
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New study shows diversity decreases chances of parasitic disease
A new University of Colorado at Boulder study showing that American toads who pal around with gray tree frogs reduce their chances of parasitic infections known to cause limb malformations has strong implications for the ...
Oct 21, 2008
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Secret Lives of Catalysts Revealed
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first-ever glimpse of nanoscale catalysts in action could lead to improved pollution control and fuel cell technologies. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 21, 2008
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Self-assembling nano-fiber gel delivers high concentrations of clinically approved drugs
Two teams of scientists from Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology (HST) at Brigham and Women's Hospital have developed a new self-assembling hydrogel drug delivery system that is biocompatible, efficient ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 21, 2008
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First antenna-in-package solution for single-chip 60 GHz radio
With the rising demand for low-cost, small-size, high-speed, highly functional and high volume wireless communications, the development of highly-integrated 60 GHz radio chipsets in semiconductor technology have received ...
Engineering
Oct 21, 2008
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Throwing light on the dark side of the Universe
Although we may believe humans know a lot about the Universe, there are still a lot of phenomena to be explained. A team of cosmologists from the University of the Basque Country, Spain, are searching for the model that best ...
General Physics
Oct 21, 2008
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