Category Archives: Research

Sheriff: Kidnap victim, children kept in backyard compound

By doris | Published: August 28, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com “From what they have both said, he fathered both of those children with Jaycee [Dugard],” El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar told reporters. The girls, now 11 and 15, had been living with their mother, now 29, in a series of sheds behind Garrido’s house in Antioch, California, until they were [...]

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Telescopes to show universe soon after Big Bang

By doris | Published: August 20, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — It may not be possible to travel back in time, but seeing stars and galaxies as they looked millions or even billions of years ago is no problem thanks to telescopes, the closest thing we have to time machines. Now, astronomers are holding their breath to see what they’ll [...]

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Newfound planet orbits backward

By doris | Published: August 12, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com Planets orbit stars in the same direction that the stars rotate. They all do. Except one. A newfound planet orbits the wrong way, backward compared to the rotation of its host star. Its discoverers think a near-collision may have created the retrograde orbit, as it is called. The star and its [...]

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School: No shortage of volunteers for swine flu vaccine trials

By doris | Published: July 28, 2009

Full Story atCNN.com The university’s Center for Vaccine Development has received more than 500 responses from potential volunteers since Wednesday, when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced human trials for a swine flu vaccine would begin in early August. “This response has been exceptionally strong,” Nancy Solomon, a spokeswoman for the university’s medical center, [...]

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NASA patches air-purifying system on station

By doris | Published: July 27, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A space station air purifier was working again Sunday after it shut down at the worst possible time, when company was still visiting and had swollen the on-board crowd to a record 13. The repair by flight controllers, albeit temporary, came as a great relief to NASA. [...]

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Odds are stacked against Chrome OS’s success

By doris | Published: July 12, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com In competing with Windows, Google Chrome OS will have to deal with many of the same challenges Linux has: compatibility, usability, and unfamiliarity. The record isn’t good: In the past year, Linux-based netbooks have rapidly lost market share to Microsoft, as people find that Linux doesn’t work as expected, may not [...]

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Work to start on the deepest underground lab

By doris | Published: June 23, 2009

Full Story At msnbc.com SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Far below the Black Hills of South Dakota, crews are building the world’s deepest underground science lab at a depth equivalent to more than six Empire State buildings — a place uniquely suited to scientists’ quest for mysterious particles known as dark matter. Scientists, politicians and other [...]

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US moving closer to swine flu vaccine

By doris | Published: May 23, 2009

Full Story At  news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON – Inching closer to a swine flu vaccine, the government is beginning to analyze two candidates for the key ingredient to brew one. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hopes to deliver one or both to vaccine manufacturers by the end of next week so scientists can begin the [...]

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First Embryonic Stem Cell Study Approved by U.S.

By doris | Published: January 25, 2009

Full Story At nationalgeographic.com A U.S. biotech company says it plans to start this summer the world’s first study of a treatment based on human embryonic stem cells—a long-awaited project aimed at spinal cord injury. The company gained federal permission this week to inject eight to ten patients with cells derived from embryonic cells, said [...]

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Flying car takes high road to Timbuktu

By doris | Published: January 14, 2009

Vidio Full Story At  CNN.com A car that also flies? 2:39Flying cars have been a long held, technological fantasy. As CNN’s Phil Black reports, Skycar makes them a reality.• Technology – Computers, Internet and Personal Tech News from CNN.com Source: CNN | Added January 13, 2009

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Poor Sleep Increases Risk Of Getting Sick

By doris | Published: January 13, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (CBS/AP) It turns out if you don’t snooze you lose, reports CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jonathan LaPook. A study of 153 healthy people found that those who got less than seven hours of sleep were almost three times more susceptible to getting a cold than those who slept eight [...]

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Why your brain can’t always make good decisions

By doris | Published: January 12, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com (CNN) — We all make bad decisions sometimes. In some contexts, to a certain extent, psychologists know why.Chess players, with experience, learn how to make rapid judgments about their moves. Chess players, with experience, learn how to make rapid judgments about their moves. Much research on the subject was done by [...]

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Scientists Link Gene Abnormality to Childhood Leukemia Relapse

By doris | Published: January 11, 2009

Full Story At Health News Although the rate of cure for the most common form of pediatric cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, is about 80 percent with the current treatments available, the remaining 20 percent will suffer a relapse at some point. Of the children who experience a relapse, only 30 percent will survive for a [...]

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Technology helps Santa make magic, scientist says

By doris | Published: December 16, 2008

Full Story At Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ever wondered how Santa Claus can travel around the world in just one night on his reindeer-pulled sleigh and deliver toys to all the children? “He exploits the space-time continuum,” says Larry Silverberg, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at North Carolina State University. Santa’s magic may [...]

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VIDEO: Iceland Puffin Threatened

By doris | Published: December 8, 2008

Full Story At VIDEO: Iceland Puffin Threatened December 5, 2008—In Iceland’s remote Westman Islands, warming weather is threatening a beloved mascot: the Atlantic puffin. Video by Public Television’s Wild Chronicles, from National Geographic Mission Programs

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Tech commission suggests new cybersecurity post

By doris | Published: December 8, 2008

Full Story At CNET News The Department of Homeland Security has failed to ensure the nation’s cybersecurity, a new report to be released Monday concludes, because the threat of cyberattacks is too vast for any one agency to tackle and must be addressed by a new White House office, as well as revised laws and [...]

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Nobel Winner: HIV Vaccine Within 5 Years

By doris | Published: December 8, 2008

Full Story At  CBS News (CBS/AP) One of the scientists sharing the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering HIV said Saturday he believes there will be a therapeutic vaccine to treat the virus within five years. Luc Montagnier, of France, told reporters in Sweden that he believed it was “a matter of 4 to 5 [...]

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Scientist says ancient technique cuts greenhouse gas

By doris | Published: December 7, 2008

Full Story At  Reuters OZNAN, Poland (Reuters) – An ancient technique of plowing charred plants into the ground to revive soil may also trap greenhouse gases for thousands of years and forestall global warming, scientists said on Friday. Heating plants such as farm waste or wood in airtight conditions produces a high-carbon substance called biochar, [...]

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Pentagon Clears Flying-Car Project for Takeoff

By doris | Published: November 22, 2008

Full Story At Wired.com Pentagon mad-science division Darpa is helping build thought-controlled robotic limbs, artificial pack mules, real-life laser guns and “kill-proof” soldiers. So it comes as no surprise, really, that the agency is now getting into the flying-car business, too. Darpa hopes its “Personal Air Vehicle Technology” project, announced yesterday, will ultimately lead to [...]

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Cells change identity in promising breakthrough

By doris | Published: August 27, 2008

Full Story At Yahoo! News NEW YORK – Talk about an extreme makeover: Scientists have transformed one type of cell into another in living mice, a big step toward the goal of growing replacement tissues to treat a variety of diseases.ADVERTISEMENT The cell identity switch turned ordinary pancreas cells into the rarer type that churns [...]

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