A team of British scientists are developing plans for a spacecraft that could stop large…
Month: August 2009
Best of Open Source Software Awards 2009 (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld – If you think you can easily whittle down the best open source software…
iPhone Could Get Multiple Carriers Amid France Probe
The talk about Apple’s iPhones in France is currently revolving around two subjects — exploding…
Palliative Care Intervention For Patients With Advanced Cancer Provides Quality Of Life Benefits
Patients with advanced cancer who received a palliative care intervention focused on addressing physical and…
Mysterious Charge Transport In Self-assembled Monolayer Transistors Unraveled
Researchers have discovered that monolayer coverage and channel length set the mobility in self-assembled monolayer…
Collagen-deficient Mice Show Signs Of Osteoarthritis
Researchers conducted a study of mice to determine the effect of Type IX collagen (Col9a1)…
Analysis Of Copernicus Putative Remains Support Identity
Researchers have published results from the analysis of the putative remains of Copernicus. A DNA-analysis…
New Prognostic Marker For Human Breast Cancer
Elevated levels of GLI1 (glioma-associated oncogene homolog 1) protein in human breast cancer are associated…
Model Suggests How Life’s Code Emerged From Primordial Soup
In 1952, Stanley Miller filled two flasks with chemicals assumed to be present on the…
Call-Center Jobs That Pay $100K a Year
In a column a few weeks ago, I wrote about “smallsourcing” and how U.S. workers…