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BlackBerry Users See the Fail Whale Twice in Week
BlackBerry users faced a service outage that made e-mail, text messages and web services such as Twitter and Facebook inaccessible on their devices.
 Voice And Signature For The Identification Of Persons
Some years ago the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications at the School of Engineering in Bilbao started joint work with a number of universities in Spain in order to design a database that would provide the biometric characteristics of hundreds of people. Currently, in order to complete the database, University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) researchers are focusing on analysing the voice, signatures and handwriting. Adding Activity To Video Games Fights Obesity, Study Shows
If playing video games makes kids less active -- and contributes to obesity -- why not create more video games that require activity? To Be Benign Or Malignant: mTOR Makes The Decision
In a study appearing online in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers in China report using mouse models of tuberous sclerosis complex to provide a potential explanation for the fact that individuals with TSC develop only benign tumors. Prion disorder
Disorder in the molecules that cause CJD and BSE could provide new targets for drugs. Australian Discovery Could Lead To New Leukemia Treatments
Australian scientists have identified a protein that could hold the key to new leukemia treatments. World Food Day
"The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations celebrates World Food Day each year on 16 October, the day on which the Organization was founded in 1945."The site features posters and selected additional material about this commemoration back to 1981, audio and video clips, listing of events throughout the world, and links to related resources. Immunity In Social Amoeba Suggests Ancient Beginnings
Finding an immune system in the social amoeba (Dictyostelium discoideum) is not only surprising but it also may prove a clue as to what is necessary for an organism to become multicellular, according to a new article. Maritime Safety, Science &Environmental Protection, Including Famous S
This collection of research materials covers topics related to the U.S. Coast Guard and maritime safety, the environment, merchant and fishing vessel casualties, shipwrecks, oceanography, and marine inspection. Highlights include a page on lost cutters, the accident report on the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, and an oral history from a whaling inspector. Include bibliographies, research guides, photos, government documents, and more. From the U.S. Coast Guard. Unusual Material That Contracts When Heated Is Giving Up Its Secrets T
Most solids expand when heated, a familiar phenomenon with many practical implications. Among the rare exceptions to this rule, the compound zirconium tungstate stands out by virtue of the enormous temperature range over which it exhibits so-called "negative thermal expansion,"contracting as it heats up and expanding as it cools, and because it does so uniformly in all directions.
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