Scientists at Johns Hopkins have taken a less-is-more approach to designing effective drug treatments that are precisely tailored to disease-causing pathogens, such as viruses and bacteria, and cancer cells, any of which can trigger the body’s immune system defenses.
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Immune system’s bare essentials used to speedily detect drug targets
The ocean surface is 30 percent more acidic today than it was in 1800, much of that increase occurring in the last 50 years – a rising trend that could both harm coral reefs and profoundly impact tiny shelled plankton at the base of the ocean food web, scientists warn.
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Speed installation of system to monitor vital signs of global ocean, scientists urge
Researchers at the Cyclotron Research Centre (University of Liege), Geneva Center for Neuroscience and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences (University of Geneva), and Surrey Sleep Research Centre (University of Surrey) investigated the immediate effect of light, and of its color composition, on emotion brain processing using functional magnetic resonance imaging. The results of their study show that the colour of light influences the way the brain processes emotional stimuli.
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Emotion processing in the brain is influenced by the color of ambient light
(PhysOrg.com) — A University of Alberta geomicrobiologist and his PhD student are part of a research team that has identified phosphorus as the mystery ingredient that pushed oxygen levels in the oceans high enough to establish the first animals on Earth.
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Phosphorus identified as the missing link in evolution of animals
BT has announced that it will begin a trial of its wi-fi service at Charing Cross underground station. The trial will run for six months starting tomorrow, and will allow BT broadband customers with unlimited BT Fon wi-fi minutes and BT Openzone customers to partake of the new service
The debate over whether the tablet is set to kill the notebook market, or at least hamper it severely, rages on, with the latest shell fired being some research conducted by online shopping comparison website Kelkoo. Earlier this month, research from NPD in the States indicated that the iPad wasn’t cannibalising the laptop market, as
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35% of UK consumers would buy a tablet instead of a laptop
(PhysOrg.com) — Whether it is alerting us to danger or allowing us to spot prey, vision helps keep humans and other animals alive. But how exactly does this special sense work, and why is it easier for us to spot movement of small objects in our field of vision than to notice other things?
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Neural circuit ensures zebrafish will not bite off more than it can chew
Around 20,000 BT customers across the UK found themselves without broadband last night due to a fault on a node in the Edinburgh area. The Courier.co.uk reports that BT said the fault hit customers “largely in the southern Scotland and northern England area with some in the Northern Ireland area also affected.” Although the BBC
(AP) — Representatives to a U.N. conference on biodiversity agreed early Saturday to expand protected areas on land and at sea in the hopes of slowing the rate of extinction of the world’s animals and plants and preventing further damage to its ecosystems.
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UN nature meeting agrees on land, ocean protection
The head of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment division, Don Mattrick, has revealed that the Kinect motion control system will make a profit for the company with every unit sold. In other words, Microsoft isn’t subsidising the spread of Kinect to consumers, something one might question given the noise made over the device’s price point of £130
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Microsoft will make a profit on every Kinect sold
Download free Canon Pixma iP2702 User Manual.pdf This Canon Pixma iP2702 User Guide, Canon Pixma iP2702 Owners Manual, Canon Pixma iP2702 instruction manual contains the information you need when installing, setup, setting, configuring, maintenance and troubleshooting, operating instructions the Canon Pixma iP2702.Table contents of Canon Pixma iP2702 user manualCheck the included
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CANON PIXMA iP2702 USER MANUAL
A few days ago we posted the story about Dan Johnson Photography’s entry in Grand Rapid’s extraordinary ArtPrize competition in which thousands of artists competed using every possible artistic medium and hundreds of thousands judged. Another photographer who entered, Steven Huyser-Honig, owner of Great Lakes Editions in Grand Rapids, created an amazing three-dimensional photographic panorama of the
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Night and Day: Flowing City Panorama Printed on Satin Cloth
In its quest for a competitive edge, C2 Reprographics in Costa Mesa, Calif., was one of the first companies to try LexJet’s Sunset Metallic Photo Paper after it was introduced this summer. C2 Reprographics’ marketing director, Eric Monroe, says the company has been on the lookout for a way to replicate the unique pearlescent qualities
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Making a Difference with Metallic
It’s that time of the year when the gaming public has its voice heard, as their votes are counted for the Golden Joystick awards for 2010. And the ultimate game of the year was… not Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which came second. In fact, Mass Effect 2 was voted the best slice of
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Mass Effect 2 wins Golden Joystick game of the year
I’ve gotten to explore all sorts of concepts in my role here at GreenTech Pastures, including one of my favorites from high-school biology, osmosis. For those of you without school-age kids, this is the process by which water moves through membranes or flows from cell to cell. Confession: I had to look the word up
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China plant opts for osmotics tech that slashes energy needed for desalination
BT is to test out its wi-fi service on the London underground, with a trial at Charing Cross station which starts on Monday. The trial will be run by BT Openzone for six months, through to the end of April, and will operate in the ticket hall, along with the Northern and Bakerloo line platforms
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BT going underground with wi-fi at Charing Cross
Acer has announced its new Liquid Metal smartphone, which comes with Froyo (Android 2.2) on board. The tech spec consists of a 3.6 inch display, a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, an 800MHz Qualcomm processor, GPS, 3G, wi-fi and bluetooth. The camera is capable of recording HD footage, and the handset also comes with
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Acer Liquid Metal Froyo smartphone coming for £299
China’s drive to excel in cutting edge technology has paid off with the news that it now has the world’s fastest supercomputer, taking the accolade from the US, which has held it since 2002. Tianhe-1A, which translates as ‘Milky Way’ has stolen the top spot from the USA’s Cray XT5 Jaguar, which now looks positively
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China tops supercomputer league
“Large-format printing is not a supplement to our business; it’s a necessity,” says Kyle Yeager, owner of two UPS Stores in the Atlanta area. “It’s a major part of our product line, and a piece of our business that we use to define and separate ourselves from most of our competition.” Yeager’s UPS Store has
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High Five: Profiting from Large-Format Printing
When you think about surveys touting the benefits of cars, or lack thereof, the researcher that probably jumps to your mind first is the venerable J.D. Power and Associates.
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New survey makes me wonder: Who’s buying electric and hybrid cars, anyway?