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Automating Infrastructure and Operations Management with VMware
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New full-duplex technology doubles wireless capacity
Rice University engineers have developed technology that allows for wireless devices like cell phones and tablet PCs to both "talk" and "listen" to wireless cell towers on the same frequency,...
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Managing research instruments on the Web
Telescopes, supercomputers or microscopes can cost millions of dollars. The research institutions which bought them often try to share the costs with other laboratories. And they're also tempted...
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Nanosponges soak up more than 100x their weight in oil
Rice, Penn State researchers laced carbon nanotubes with boron to create reusable oil-soaking sponges that show promise for environmental cleanup, among many uses.
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New full-duplex technology doubles wireless capacity
Rice University engineers have developed technology that allows for wireless devices like cell phones and tablet PCs to both "talk" and "listen" to wireless cell towers on the same frequency,...
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How to survive an iPhone liquid submersion (hint: it's not rice)
It's possible to recover a liquid submerged iPhone but a few things have to go exactly right and timing is everything. Your iPhone is in cardiac arrest and you only have a few minutes.
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Apple signs on for some Geekonomics
Apple's motivation for hiring security talent such as Geekonomics author David Rice would seem to be penetration of the enterprise market for the company’s devices.
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New microchip uses 30 times less power
Scientists at Rice University have created a microchip that uses 30 times less electricity while running seven times faster than today's best technology. The U.S.-Singapore team developing the...
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Drink beer to avoid cancer...
The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) synthetic biology competition will be held on November 8-9 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 85 teams will be part of this contest, using 'a...
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Brown rice, white rice, now GREEN rice
A major rice grower in California is looking to sell green rice. "Green" as in solar-powered. Of course, like all crops, rice needs sun to grow and ripen. Now Far West Rice, Inc. of Cypress,...
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Nanoparticles used to trap oil drops
Rice University researchers have found a new way to spontaneously assemble nanoparticles into bag-like sacs. Their 'nanobatons' could be used to clean up oil spills by trapping oil droplets in...
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What IBM rice study may teach us about people
Certainly genetic coding did not reveal what makes us tick. Perhaps decoding genes based on protein interactions will do the job. The Samudrala study may be the first step toward a new...
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I can take costly energy, rice shortages, pricier platinum, but not my beer!!!!
If this be a harbinger of things to come, life is gonna get bleak here pretty soon. I'm not talking about recession or no recession, health care or not health care, not even worried about food...
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A Moore's Law for medical breakthroughs
In the world of medical research the chief contribution of this decade has been breaching the wall between organic and inorganic chemistry.
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Robotic help for stroke patients
According to several estimations, there are more than 5 million people living in the U.S. who have been affected by a cerebral vascular accident. And more than 700,000 persons are suffering from a...
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Rice re-engineers Gleevec for Novartis
"For the first time you can take a drug with side effects and re-engineer it to curb those side effects."
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How radio waves really can kill cancer
In the latest experiment, rabbits were used, but the results seem to apply to humans, and to many forms of cancer. Clinical trials are still three years away, as Curley's team works to target the...
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Managing research instruments on the Web
Telescopes, supercomputers or microscopes can cost millions of dollars. The research institutions which bought them often try to share the costs with other laboratories. And they're also tempted...
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Nanotech is approaching the human body
Nanotechnology is becoming increasingly practical in the fight against disease, especially cancer.
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Nuking cancer cells with alpha particles?
Radiotherapy is widely used to fight cancers. Today, only beta particles are approved by health regulators, such as the U.S. FDA. Beta particles are small and travel fast, but it takes thousands...
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Man drops BlackBerry in toilet, loses date's number, uses rice to retrieve it
We now turn to the tale of Ernesto Londoño, staff writer for the Washington Post. It seems as though Ernesto meets this woman, and asked her for a date on the following night. He records...
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