Human beings are creatures of habit, it seems safe to say, and tend to have…
Month: November 2010
Technology
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Oracle’s Masterful Political Obfuscation Strategy Against HP
This may be election week, but the big political battle isn’t really the mid-term elections…
Science
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Great apes might be misunderstood
Great apes might be much more similar to us – and just as smart –…
Science
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Scientists prepare for confined field trials of life-saving drought-tolerant transgenic maize
Crop specialists in Kenya and Uganda have laid the groundwork for confined field trials to…
Science
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Size of protein aggregates, not abundance, drives spread of prion-based disease
In a study that challenges the conventional wisdom about infections caused by proteins called prions,…
Science
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Speed installation of system to monitor vital signs of global ocean, scientists urge
As oceans grow saltier, hotter, more acidic and less diverse biologically, world governments urgently need…
Science
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Discovery may help identify the healthiest embryos in IVF treatment
Australian scientists have developed a potentially groundbreaking new measure of the health of an embryo…
Science
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Did Neanderthals make jewellery after all?
The theory that later Neanderthals might have been sufficiently advanced to fashion jewelery and tools…
Security
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Vulnerable residents in Liverpool housing estate feel safer with SelectaDNA
Homes occupied by over 200 elderly and disabled residents at Sheil Park estate had been…
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Vulnerable residents in Liverpool housing estate feel safer with SelectaDNA
Homes occupied by over 200 elderly and disabled residents at Sheil Park estate had been…