A new “graphene-based” material that helps solve the structure of graphite oxide and could lead…
Month: October 2008
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For Insulin Sensitive Overweight Patients, One Session Of Exercise Improves Metabolic Health, New Research Suggests
Exercise decreases everyone’s insulin resistance and therefore reduces the chances of developing diseases such as…
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Genetic Damage In Minibacteria In Aphids And Ants Repaired By Faulty Copying
Aphids (plant lice) and ants carry minibacteria that produce essential amino acids and vitamins. These…
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Disinfectants Can Make Bacteria Resistant To Treatment
Chemicals used in the environment to kill bacteria could be making them stronger, according to…
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Earliest Animal Footprints Ever Found Show Animals Walking 30 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
The fossilized trail of an aquatic creature suggests that animals walked using legs at least…
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SEC Probes Posting About Steve Jobs Heart Attack
On Friday a report that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack and…
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Ask.com Boasts Semantic Search Enhancements
In a move to compete against Google, search engine Ask.com on Monday launched a new…
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iPhone 3G Entices Mobile-Carrier Defections
The NPD Group, a market-research firm, reports that 30 percent of the U.S. consumers who…
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New Readers, Software Heat Up E-Book Market
The battle over e-readers is heating up rapidly, thanks to new hardware entries from the…
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eBay To Drop 1,000 Employees, Buy Two Companies
One of the Internet’s long-running success stories, global auction operator eBay, announced Monday that it…