Chemists working on an “artificial nose” have developed new sensors that offer more information “per…
Month: August 2010
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Baidu Sues Chinese Security Company (PC World)
PC World – Baidu, operator of China’s largest search engine, is suing domestic security vendor…
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DVRs shaking up movie marketing (Reuters)
Reuters – Movie marketers — who devote as much as 70% of their budgets to…
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Smartphones to make up over half of Asian sales by 2015 (AFP)
AFP – Smartphones will make up over half of Asian mobile phone sales by 2015,…
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Use of decision-aid program increases safety for women experiencing abuse, researchers find
Intimate partner violence results in two million injuries among women in the US each year,…
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Road signs and traffic signals on DNA: Physical model describes the distribution of nucleosome
The DNA in the cell nuclei of higher organisms is tightly coiled around protein complexes…
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Molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of asthma illuminated
Scientists have taken a further step towards improving our understanding of how asthma develops. New…
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Limiting ocean acidification under global change
Emissions of carbon dioxide are causing ocean acidification as well as global warming. Scientists have…
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Protein made by breast cancer gene purified
A key step in understanding the origins of familial breast cancer has been made. Researchers…
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Ancient galaxy cluster still producing stars
In ongoing observations of one of the universe’s earliest, most distant cluster of galaxies using…