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
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
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
The world has seen many breakthroughs in technology and one of them is the history of notebook computers. Notebook, laptop, call it what you may, these two words are synonymous with each other. the introduction of notebooks has shaken the world with its features and functionality
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The History of Notebook Computers: A Breakthrough In The World of Technology
Food Barock – Food was good, but the whole thing was overpriced, and that was me eating the less expensive vegetarian dishes. No drinks (except sparkling water), a tomata caprese salad and a risotto chantrelles was $50 USD. Bohemia Bagels – low rating on this place
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Notes from my recent trip to Prague, Czech Republic
For a while now, I’ve been in search of an easy way to browse my Picasaweb albums on the big screen television in my living room. Little did I know that the answer was right under my nose… or under my television, to be more precise! First some background : I organize all the photographs I take using Google’s Picasa for Windows. And then I upload them to Picasa’s online photo sharing service called Picasa Web Albums (aka Picasaweb) .
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My review of the Picasa “channel” for Roku
Here’s a quick comparison of my beloved Acer 1810TZ-4174 and the new Apple Macbook Air 11″: Acer 1810TZ Macbook Air 11″ (new) Dimensions length (in) 8 7.56 width (in) 11.2 11.8 depth (in) 1.2 0.68 weight (lbs) 3.1 2.3 screen (in) 11.6 11.6 USB ports 3 2 SD card slot Yes! No* Flash memory 256MB** 64MB or 128MB price $550 + $580 = $1130*** $999 or $1199 * This is probably a deal breaker for me. I take a lot of photographs and being able to download them and quickly upload them online, all without any extra hardware is an important use case for me. ** I bought and replaced the 340GB drive that came with my Acer 1810TZ-4174 with a 256GB solid-state drive (SSD).
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Comparing my Acer 1810TZ to new Macbook Airs
I had a chance to play around with one of Sony’s new Google TV devices last week on Friday. Some photographs of stuff running in the TV’s task manager: Looks like a lot of services that mirror the state of the DVR– so that’s how they do that integration.
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Playing around with Sony’s Google TV product
Now that Logitech’s Revue product and Sony’s Google TV enabled TVs have been announced (or announced and “leaked” respectively) there are folks that are getting pre-disenchanted with Google TV: Am I Blind, Or Am I Just Not ‘Seeing’ What’s So Great About Google TV? Tweet by @StardotGarf : It’s difficult to make things simple.
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Why Google TV is going to be just fine