Elementary school students will eat more whole grains when healthier bread products are gradually introduced…
Month: November 2008
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Stretching Silicon: A New Method To Measure How Strain Affects Semiconductors
Engineers and physicists have developed a method of measuring how strain affects thin films of…
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Smokers See Decline In Ability To Smell, Rise In Laryngitis, And Upper Airway Issues
New research gives more reasons to kick smoking and smokeless tobacco products. New research shows…
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New Role For Critical DNA Repair Molecule In Immune System
The human immune system is a brilliantly adaptable weapon against foreign invaders. But it all…
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Friendly Bacteria Reduce Hospital Infections
A probiotic bacterium, Lactobacillus plantarum 299, has been used to out-compete the dangerous bacteria that…
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Playing A Game Shows How Personalities Evolved
Why do some of us always do the right thing while others only seem to…
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‘Guitar Hero’ for Mac Rocks Out With Aerosmith
“Guitar Hero” is one of those “Why didn’t anyone think of this before?” kind of…
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Hadoop: Funny Name, Powerful Software
Behind Yahoo’s push to open up Web search and advertising is software powerful enough to…
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Global Security: The Sky’s Unblinking Eyes
The secretive National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is rushing to get the latest, high-definition satellite photos of…
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Vendee Globe gets under way
Entrants in the Vendee Globe – the single-handed round-the-world yacht race – will be dependent…