A team of Berkley scientists have demonstrated a method of engineering yeast that contain a significantly higher percentage of isoprenoids than normal. Isoprenoids are a key compound in anti-cancer...
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Two new applications that use GPS technology to track a moving vehicle's speed and respond by either proscribing the driver from pressing on the accelerator or flashing a blue light if the...
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Bell Labs and Hitachi recently announced a revolutionary holographic DVD media that will initially store 300 GB of data when released to market next year, with a storage capacity of 1.6 TB by the end...
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by Jonathan G. Cohen on November 27, 2005
A recently published research paper on the economic effects of P2P file sharing espouses the theory that its ramifications are not evenly distributed among all artists; specifically that more popular...
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Talkman, a $70 application for Sony's PSP (PlayStation Portable) handheld, utilizes speech recognition software to translate conversations in real-time between English, Japanese, Chinese...
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Japanese researchers have announced a new method of refining vegetable oil into biodiesel fuel which uses inexpensive glucose products and costs one-tenth to one-fiftieth of the conventional process...
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In an unprecedented proceedure, two kidney dialysis patients have recieved blood vessels grown from their own skin. Having placed a patch of each patient's epidermal tissue in a laboratory dish,...
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Warner Brothers has released details regarding an internet service that will enable users to stream episodes of old television shows on demand to their computers via a new web portal, In2TV. This...
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Medical researchers have developed a drug targeting a version of a gene which makes African Americans more than 250 percent likely to suffer a heart attack than people from other races who are...
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1) Researchers at New Mexico State University have attained a 6 percent efficiency in flexible solar cells. To be a viable energy source, solar cells must convert about 10 percent sunlight into...
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A theory worked on by einstein and his colleagues in 1935 that explains how particles of light interact predictably with each other is the foundation for a new method of data encryption that has the...
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by Jonathan G. Cohen on November 08, 2005
Grokster Networks has ceded to a unanimous Supreme Court decision made four months ago that using its software to make copies of copyrighted files is illegal and has halted all downloads of its P2P...
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Arup, a London-based consulting firm, has announced that their deal to aid the Chinese government in developing an "eco-city" north of Shanghai on an island 75% the size of Manhattan will be...
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Yahoo and TiVo announced a partnership this morning that will have the two entites collaborate on services. Though their announcement doesn't include any immediate plans to debut new...
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One of many potential solutions to American energy woes comes in the form of canola, which is currently being evaluated in national variety trials to see which crops are best suited for different...
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