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Automating Infrastructure and Operations Management with VMware
With VMware, virtualization tools come with a management system built in. Check out this webcast to learn more.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Images: Hot wheels for molecules
Infinitessimally small nanocars developed at Rice University roll on streets paved with gold.
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Images: Hot wheels for molecules
Infinitessimally small nanocars developed at Rice University roll on streets paved with gold.
Additional Results
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Jay Leno uses indie YouTube video; NBC gets it taken down
Internet outcry rises after Jay Leno uses a YouTube video without permission and NBC removes it with a copyright claim takedown.
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Digital foreplay, virtual houseflies among Carnegie Mellon work (videos)
End-of-term projects from Golan Levin's Interactive Art and Computational Design class give us a peek at what kinds of technological mischief our future geniuses are getting up to in school.
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Sex Tech: Reddit vs. Romney, Sex Addiction, Spankable Robot, Tumblr Sued
Tumblr sued by Perfect 10, Reddit vs. Mitt Romney, Japanese robot butt for spanking, no science for sex addiction.
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Twitter teams up with UC Berkeley to offer course in Big Data
Interested in programming? Some students at UC Berkeley will soon have the chance to view Twitter from an insider's perspective.
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Are universities reluctant to use iTunes U?
Is iTunes U a viable platform for school systems to implement?
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Spotify for iOS goes universal; gets iPad love
Huzzah! Spotify for iPad has arrived in the form of a universal iOS app that was released today.
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Oxford University IT staff 'somewhat overwhelmed by Mac malware'
In a pair of candid blog posts, a member of Oxford's network security staff says the Flashback malware episode is the worst they've seen since the Blaster worm of 2003. And Apple is "making...
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A thousand days in the life of the infrared universe (photos)
The Infrared Array Camera aboard NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has been busy capturing nebulae of cold dust, peering inside obscured dust clouds, and detecting faint emissions from distant...
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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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