 Leveling the gaming field May 13, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A new computer game developed by MIT and Singaporean students makes it possible for visually impaired people to play the game on a level field with their sighted friends. | |
Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens May 13, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday. | |
 A baseball cap that reads your mind 12 hours ago | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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It looks like an ordinary baseball cap. But when you put it on, the cap detects and analyzes the electroencephalogram (EEG) signals from your brain. It can even tell you if you’re getting too sleepy when driving ... | |
Researchers show link between vitamin D status, breast cancer May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Using newly available data on worldwide cancer incidence, researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego and the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine have shown a clear association ... | |
 Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(AP) -- In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out ... | |
Girls, young women can cut risk of early breast cancer through regular exercise May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Mothers, here’s another reason to encourage your daughters to be physically active: Girls and young women who exercise regularly between the ages of 12 and 35 have a substantially lower risk of breast cancer before menopause ... | |
 Sweet sorghum, clean miracle crop for feed and fuel May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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The hardy sweet sorghum plant could be the miracle crop that provides cheap animal feed and fuel without straining the world's food supply or harming the environment, said scientists working on a pilot farming ... | |
Middle class relaxing with marijuana May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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A variety of middle-class people are making a conscious but careful choice to use marijuana to enhance their leisure activities, a University of Alberta study shows. | |
 A Smarter Way to Grow Graphene May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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Graphene, a sheet of carbon just one atom thick, has many potential uses in the electronics industry, but producing these ideal two-dimensional carbon sheets is very difficult and, as a result, their use has ... | |
 Divers find Caesar bust that may date to 46 B.C. May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Divers trained in archaeology discovered a marble bust of an aging Caesar in the Rhone River that France's Culture Ministry said Tuesday could be the oldest known. | |
 DNA fingerprinting simplified May 13, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Agarose gel electrophoresis? Most teenagers wouldn’t have a clue what this scientific term means, but middle school student Andrew Trigiano knows the protocol inside and out. When Andrew was 12, his father ... | |
 Solar Lily Pads Gently Floating And Gathering Energy on the River Clyde May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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The preeminent Glasgow, Scotland based architecture firm ZM Architecture has big ideas for attracting solar energy in a very aesthetic manner. The proposed Water Lily Solar panels for the Clyde River in Glasgow ... | |
Vitamin D protects cells from stress that can lead to cancer May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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By inducing a specific gene to increase expression of a key enzyme, vitamin D protects healthy prostate cells from the damage and injuries that can lead to cancer, University of Rochester Medical Center researchers report. | |
 Seeing Alzheimer's amyloids May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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In an important step toward demystifying the role protein clumps play in the development of neurodegenerative disease, researchers have created a stunning three-dimensional picture of an Alzheimer’s peptide ... | |
 New top-of-the-line BlackBerry doubles screen resolution May 12, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Research In Motion Ltd. on Monday is introducing its first major new BlackBerry model in more than a year: the Bold, ... | |
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