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Cell Phones Put to Novel Use
Forget conversations and even e-mail. Japanese gadget freaks get literary with their mobile phones, reading everything from sex manuals to full-length classics on the devices, a few lines at a time. Invasive, Exotic, Aquatic and Wetland Plants in the Western United Sta
Information about over a dozen plants that cause problems in wetlands in the western United States. Includes descriptions, images, and information about economic importance, distribution, habitat, history, and response to control methods for plants such as smooth cordgrass and Brazilian elodea. From the Western Aquatic Plant Management Society. The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry
After suffering bumps in the road to development, Apple's iPhone takes the wireless industry by storm, and turns a power structure between carriers and manufacturers on its head in the process. Researchers Find First Gene For Inherited Testicular Cancer In Mice
In this week's journal Nature, researchers report finding the first gene responsible for inherited susceptibility of testicular cancer in mice. The Ter mutation occurs in a gene called dead end, which is involved in normal testicular development and which may play a role in inherited forms of a testicular cancer occurring in infants.The mutation causes a huge increase in testicular cancer incidence, from 5 percent to 94 percent. Land Clearing Triggers Hotter Droughts, Australian Research Shows
The clearing of native vegetation has made recent Australian droughts hotter. Scientists applied the CSIRO Mark 3 climate model, satellite data and a supercomputer, and showed that 150 years of land clearing added significantly to the warming and drying of eastern Australia. RealNetworks: Files Play on IPod
Claiming it has created technology that allows songs purchased through its online music services to be played on Apple's iPod and other portable music players, RealNetworks claims the system is not illegal. But will it work? MRI Detects Early Heart Damage In Patients With Sarcoidosis
To detect heart damage early in patients with the immune system disorder sarcoidosis, who are at elevated risk of dying from heart problems, magnetic resonance imaging is twice as sensitive as conventional methods, according to a study by Duke University Medical Center cardiologists. [Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. Diesel Exposure Model Reduces Allergy Risk Assessment Errors
University of Cincinnati environmental health experts say their research improves prior methods of classifying exposure to diesel exhaust particulates that help minimize inaccuracies and better predict a child's risk for wheezing. Finding The True Measure Of Nanoscale 'Roughness'
In a research paper published in June, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and SEMATECH describe an improved method for determining nanoscale "linewidth roughness,"an important quality control factor in semiconductor fabrication. Their research shows that current industry measurement methods may be exaggerating roughness of the smoothest circuit features by 40 percent or more above true values.
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