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Solve the 6 Top Problems in Your Data Center
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"Green" shopping bags could make you green around the gills
It makes me really sad to think that more people might wind up in the hospital because they're trying to be virtuous in their use of reusable grocery bags.
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Scientists build first synthetic bacteria (photos)
It is hoped that this discovery will lead to the development of many important applications and products including biofuels, vaccines, pharmaceuticals, clean water and food products. Cleaning up...
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How the superbug rise will probably kill you
Chances are the superbug that kills you will be a bug you already have.
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How do you say the results are the same maggot?
Two studies published in the British Medical Journal show that using maggots against bacteria is no more or less effective (or cost-effective) than using a hydrogel. So what's your headline?
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Dirty little secrets of the keyboard revealed
Nail clippings, hair, crumbs, gum — an IT hardware cleaning company describes some of the disagreeable and even dangerous bacteria that accumulates inside the average office keyboard.
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More help from bacteria: this time they're stopping nitrate pollution
Researchers are developing bioreactors to trap and neutralize nitrate rich water that runs off our fields and farms. I've blogged in the past now heavy nitrate concentrations are creating dead...
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Protecting beer from bacteria
A Canadian PhD student from the University of Saskatchewan has a mission: saving beer from bacterial contamination. She's a member of 'one of only two labs in the world that studies beer...
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Your colon houses an ecosystem
The probiotic movement has taken a giant step forward this week with word of two new studies exploring the world inside your colon.
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Is probiotics a scam?
Some of the claims made by probiotics advocates remind me of the patent medicine craze of the 19th century.
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That Florida beach isn't just sand, it could be a lot of crap
Now that you've read the headline, here's the brutal research result: fecal bacteria are likely lurking in that sunny beach where you've lain in the sun. Seems those micro-organisms can find the...
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Our urine shows where we live
It's almost logical that our urine contains traces of what we eat and drink. But an international team of researchers decided to learn more and has analyzed frozen urine samples from 4,630 people....
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Electricity generated by bacteria?
It will take years before bacteria can generate enough energy to generate electricity for transportation, homes or businesses, but researchers at the University of Minnesota studying bacteria have...
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Using bacteria as medical robots
Does the idea of turning bacteria into cancer-fighting robots sound like science fiction? Maybe today, but not in a near future. A researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has...
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Anyone out there cleaning their keyboards?
I was working in the main office and guidance suite today since, on the first day of a new semester, we invariably have countless schedule changes, grading problems from the end of the semester,...
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Conversations between bacteria
Did you know that bacteria 'talked' with each other by using small molecules to coordinate their behavior and decide when it's a good time to infect you? A recent American Chemical Society's...
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Forget global warming, stop MRSA terrorism and get rich
File this one under Law of Unintended Consequences. Everything you do will have some environmental effect you cannot forsee. Decades of antibiotic use and we now have some killer bacteria that...
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Bioengineered viruses kill bacteria
Synthetic biology is an emerging field which involves the engineering of biological organisms. One of the first applications has been developed by a team of researchers from the MIT and Boston...
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Photos: Tapping pure water in Argentina
Buenos Aires may mean "good air" in Spanish, but the water quality isn't always so laudable.
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Earth Day 2006: What's the tech?
From corporate innovation to personal action, there's plenty of chance to be green in the world of tech. Harry Fuller talks with CNET News.com cutting-edge reporter Michael Kanellos, Wayne...
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"Green" shopping bags could make you green around the gills
It makes me really sad to think that more people might wind up in the hospital because they're trying to be virtuous in their use of reusable grocery bags.
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