New system will help computer users avoid illegal file-sharing
The University of Michigan will launch a new educational service to help students avoid unintentionally infringing copyright law.
Internet
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Unprecedented global measurement network achieves full coverage of oceans
An array of instruments, many built at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, that allows scientists to observe the basic physical state of all world oceans simultaneously is approaching its coverage goal after ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2007
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Social standing influences elephant movement
When resources are scarce, who you know and where you're positioned on the social totem pole affects how far you'll go to search for food. At least that's the case with African elephants, according to a study led by ecologists ...
Oct 29, 2007
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New system would use rotating magnetic field to detect pathogens
Researchers at Purdue and Duke universities have developed a technique that uses a magnetic field to selectively separate tiny magnetic particles, representing a highly sensitive method for potentially diagnosing disease ...
Oct 29, 2007
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Tracing the Roots of the California Condor
At the end of the Pleistocene epoch some 10,000 years ago, two species of condors in California competed for resources amidst the retreating ice of Earth's last major glacial age. The modern California condor triumphed, while ...
Archaeology
Oct 29, 2007
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The Next Level in Robots: Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Create
The next level of robot is currently in the research and development stage in Japan's National Institute of Information and Communication Technology. The next level of robot untethered by human omnipresence allows it to take ...
Scientist exposes threat to backyard bird diversity
A leading environmental scientist from the University of Western Sydney has revealed that parrots commonly thought of as native to Sydney, are in fact invaders from inland areas of Australia, and their growing presence is ...
Oct 29, 2007
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The Watchdogs of chromosome-segregation
Chromosomes are duplicated before they are segregated in equal parts to daughter-cells during cell division. An important regulator of this chromosome-separation is the "chromosomal passenger complex", a protein complex which ...
Oct 29, 2007
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New technology improves the reliability of wind turbines
The world's first commercial Brushless Doubly-Fed Generator (BDFG) is to be installed on a 20kW turbine at or close to the University of Cambridge Engineering Department's Electrical Engineering Division Building on the West ...
Engineering
Oct 29, 2007
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A Hairpin To Fight HIV
When a host cell is infected with HIV, the virus brings its own genetic material into the host cell. This cell then replicates, reads the viral RNA, and uses it as a blueprint to produce more viral proteins. Complete viruses ...
Oct 29, 2007
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