Archive for October, 2008

State Piloting Microsoft Audio Search

Friday, October 31st, 2008

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The Tech Lab: Andrew Herbert

Friday, October 31st, 2008

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Searching for primordial antimatter

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Scientists are on the hunt for evidence of antimatter — matter’s arch nemesis — left over from the very early Universe. New results using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Compton Gamma Ray Observatory suggest the search may have just become even more difficult.
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‘Living fossil’ tree contains genetic imprints of rain forests under climate change

Friday, October 31st, 2008

A “living fossil” tree species is helping a University of Michigan researcher understand how tropical forests responded to past climate change and how they may react to global warming in the future.
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Study reveals marriage dowry as major cause of poverty in Bangladesh

Friday, October 31st, 2008

More than 35 million people in Bangladesh, around a quarter of its population, face acute poverty and hunger. Dowry payments of more than 200 times the daily wage and costly medical expenses are major causes of this chronic poverty says research from the University of Bath.
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Smart bees are healthy bees

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Bumblebee colonies which are fast learners are also better able to fight off infection, according to scientists from Queen Mary, University of London and the University of Leicester.
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Weight does not diminish women’s sexual behavior

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Oregon and Hawaiian researchers have found that a woman’s weight does not seem to affect sexual behavior. In fact, overweight women are more likely to report having sex with men than women considered to be of “normal weight.”
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Drinking milk to ease milk allergy?

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Giving children with milk allergies increasingly higher doses of milk over time may ease, and even help them completely overcome, their allergic reactions, according to the results of a study led by the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and conducted jointly with Duke University.
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Chinese Researcher Leaps into Prominence

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Dongmei Zhang, who heads the User Interface Group at Microsoft Research Asia, credits her youthful athletic career for instilling the characteristics needed to achieve professional success.
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Maintaining a Healthy Balance in the Brain

Friday, October 31st, 2008

A gene mutation that causes learning disabilities disrupts a neural stop signal
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