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Fingerprint breakthrough hope in US double murder probe
A double murder investigation that has remained unsolved for almost a decade could be provided new impetus following a forensic breakthrough at the University of Leicester.
Tobacco control programs reduce health-care costs
Tobacco control programs not only reduce smoking, but reduce personal health care costs as well, says new research published in PLoS Medicine by Stanton Glantz and colleagues at the University...
Iowa State University experts can discuss new FDA produce irradiation rule
The Food and Drug Administration's new (Aug. 22) regulation that will allow irradiation pasteurization to be used on fresh spinach and iceberg lettuce to kill illness-causing bacteria is a step...
Life isn't 2-D, so why should our encyclopedias be?
Biologists and biochemists are now able to access 3D images of biomacromolecules underlying biological functions and disease. Rather than relying on text to provide the understanding of biomacromolecule structures, a...
Virginia Tech researcher converts biodiesel byproduct into omega-3 fatty acids
The typical American diet often lacks omega-3 fatty acids despite clinical research that shows their potential human health benefits. Zhiyou Wen, assistant professor of biological systems engineering in Virginia Tech's...
U of M scholar and colleagues link tobacco industry's marketing to youth smoking
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) released a report today, co-edited by University of Minnesota professor Barbara Loken, that reaches the government's strongest conclusion to date that tobacco marketing and depictions...
UC San Diego researchers: New data center architecture from commodity network elements
Computer scientists at the UC San Diego's Jacobs School of
Engineering have proposed a new way to build data centers that
could save companies money and deliver more computing capability...
The 160-mile download diet: Local file-sharing drastically cuts network load
Ever since Bram Cohen invented BitTorrent, Web traffic has never been the same. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, however, is a matter of debate.
Food, health get top billing at national chemistry meeting
Well beyond the advice to drink enough H2O and not eat too much NaCl, the nation's chemists will get elemental with grapefruit, onions, peppers, tomatoes, carrots and watermelons this week...
Prediction markets strong at forecasting US presidential elections, says new management insights
A case study of the 2004 U.S. Presidential election by researchers at Yale shows that prediction markets are proving to be a strong forecasting tool, one that may have an...
Sweets make young horses harder to train in Montana State study
Young horses may be easier to train if they temporarily lay off the sweets, says a Montana State University study where two-year-olds wore pedometers, wrist watches and Ace bandages.
K-State research shows consumers can predict inflation as well as professional economists
When it comes to predicting the rate of inflation, professional economists might tell consumers, "Your guess is as good as mine."
Carnegie Mellon system thwarts Internet eavesdropping
Fi and other wireless computer networks has increased the risk of eavesdropping on Internet communications, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and College of Engineering have...
M&Ms as diet food? 100-calorie pack misconceptions
Beware of mini-packs and mini-foods, especially if you're a dieter.
Low-income? No car? Expect to pay more for groceries
Households located in poor neighborhoods pay more for the same items than people living in wealthy ones, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
'Can you see me now?' Sign language over cell phones comes to United States
A group at the University of Washington has developed software that for the first time enables deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans to use sign language over a mobile phone. UW engineers...
Tel Aviv University's eco-architecture could produce 'grow your own' homes
A bus stop that grows its own foliage as shade? A children's
playground, made entirely from trees? A shelter made from living
tree roots that could provide natural protection against...
How to stop a new type of heart attack
PACEMAKERS are supposed to protect people from heart attacks. But to do that they have to provide digital as well as biological security.
National Research Council report on security at federally managed dams
Since the terrorist attacks of 2001, the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), which operates and manages dams that provide water and power to millions of people, has invested significant resources in...
UCSD researchers' new algorithm significantly boosts routing efficiency of networks
A time-and-money-saving question shared by commuters in their cars and networks sharing ever-changing Internet resources is: "What's the best way to get from here to there?"
'Virtual archaeologist' reconnects fragments of an ancient civilization
For several decades, archaeologists in Greece have been
painstakingly attempting to reconstruct wall paintings that hold
valuable clues to the ancient culture of Thera, an island
civilization that was buried...
Computer users are digitizing books quickly and accurately with Carnegie Mellon method
Millions of computer users collectively transcribe the equivalent of 160 books each day with better than 99 percent accuracy, despite the fact that few spend more than a few seconds...
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- Life isn't 2-D, so why should our encyclopedias be?
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- Carnegie Mellon system thwarts Internet eavesdropping
- M&Ms as diet food? 100-calorie pack misconceptions
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