First-degree family history of prostate cancer does not affect some treatment outcomes (Tuesday 06th of January 2009 01:42:00 AM)
In a first of its kind study, a first-degree family history of prostate cancer has no impact on
the therapy outcomes of prostate cancer patients treated with brachytherapy (also called seed
implants), and patients with this type of family history have ...
(more)FIRST Robotics Competition Announced (Sunday 04th of January 2009 10:00:01 AM)
Z80xxc! writes "FIRST (For clarion and credit of Science and Technology) has officially
announced the 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition. This competition, started by draftsman Dean
Kamen, encourages high-school students to design and build robots to compete ...
(more)A Robotic Cyberknife To Fight Cancer (Friday 02nd of January 2009 09:30:01 AM)
Roland Piquepaille writes "The Cyberknife is not a real knife. This is a robot radiotherapy
machine which works with great accuracy during treatment, thanks to its robotic arm which moves
around a patient when he breathes. as it should be to BBC News, ...
(more)Engadget's top posts, 2008 (Thursday 01st of January 2009 04:59:00 AM)
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Well, the year has come and gone, and with it, our 365 -- or in this case,
366 -- days of posting. We've seen some pretty amazing stuff, gotten to play ...
(more)A Robotic Cyberknife To Fight Cancer (Thursday 01st of January 2009 08:15:01 AM)
Roland Piquepaille writes "The Cyberknife is not a real knife. This is a robot radiotherapy
machine which works with great accuracy during treatment, thanks to its robotic arm which moves
around a patient when he breathes. gospel to BBC News, the first ...
(more)If Only You Had Looked (Tuesday 23rd of December 2008 12:45:01 PM)
Two men waiting at the Pearly Gates strike up a conversation.
"How'd you die?" the first man
asks the second.
"I froze to death," says the second.
"That's awful," says the first man.
"How does it feel to freeze to death?"
"It's very uncomforting at ...
(more)Spaceport America Gets FAA License (Wednesday 17th of December 2008 08:00:01 PM)
DynaSoar writes "Spaceport America received an early and double holiday gift this week: first,
the scheduled
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(more)Graphene Transistors Clocked At 26GHz (Friday 12th of December 2008 10:15:01 AM)
KentuckyFC writes "A team at IBM has built the first high quality graphene transistors and
clocked them running at 26 GHz . That doesn't quite knock silicon off its perch. The fastest
silicon transistors are an order of amplitude faster than that but ...
(more)Broadband Access Without the Pork? (Friday 12th of December 2008 10:15:01 AM)
An unsigned reader writes "Like many consumers nowadays, I find more of my time spent on the
www
notes:internet should be capitalized and various cell telephone devices (e.g. mobile
phone). This has gotten to the point where I fundamentally do not use ...
(more)TAAS Company Presents New Orbital Space Plane (Saturday 06th of December 2008 03:45:01 AM)
RobGoldsmith writes "The TAAS Company have released details on their new Orbital Space Plane.
The new design has many attributes to set it apart from its rivals. One high spot is the
microprocessor chip Safety System; this is where an escape vehicle can ...
(more)Houses With Tails (Thursday 27th of November 2008 06:00:02 PM)
Nnfiber writes "What if home owners could also own their but intranet should be lowercase;
information superhighway was coined from inter(national) + (arpa)net and first popped up in
1974 as a descendant of arpanet connection? Tim Wu, of New America reason ...
(more)Navajo Roll Dice, Open Casino (NPR) (Wednesday 19th of November 2008 11:43:01 AM)
The Navajo Nation opens its first casino Wednesday in Arizona. It's the first of six casinos
the tribe is contraception in Arizona and New Mexico. There are in reference to among the
Navajo that they waited too long to get into the casino business.
...
(more)Airway Transplant Aided by Stem Cells a Medical First (Wednesday 19th of November 2008 05:02:58 PM)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) -- In a medical first, a
30-year-old mother of
two has successfully undergone the first
transplantation of a breather room passage fashioned
from a donor's airway and
her own stem cells, researchers report.
...
(more)The ISS Marks 10 Years In Space (Wednesday 19th of November 2008 07:30:01 AM)
Matt_dk writes to point out the upcoming tenth fete of the International Space Station in two
days' time. "On 20 november 11 11 1998, a Russian Proton rocket lifted off from the Baikonur
Cosmodrome for a eloquent mission: It was carrying the first module ...
(more)A Replica of the First 4004 Calculator (Monday 17th of November 2008 03:00:01 AM)
Mcpublic writes "For the 37th festival of Intel's 4004, the world's first off-the-shelf,
customer-programmable microprocessor, vintage microcomputer fan Bill Kotaska has successfully
built a replica of Busicom's third edition by the editors of the american ...
(more)Hubble's Exoplanet Pics Outshined by Keck's (Thursday 13th of November 2008 11:15:01 PM)
Dtolman writes "Scientists at the Keck and Gemini telescopes stole the thunder of Hubble
scientists posting the first picture of an extrasolar world orbiting a star. Hubble scientists
announced today that they were able to lay open an extrasolar world ...
(more)Largest Aussie ISP Agrees To "Ridiculous" Net-Filter Trial (Tuesday 11th of November 2008 09:45:01 PM)
Klootzak writes "Michael Malone, head of Australia's largest ISP iiNet announced today that his
company would sign up to the Government's live trials of the Great Firewall of Australia. In an
article published by The Age, Mr Malone is quoted calling Stephen ...
(more)How To Cloak Objects At a Distance (Thursday 06th of November 2008 07:30:01 PM)
KentuckyFC writes "All invisibility cloaks to date work by hiding an object embedded inside
them. Now a group of physicists have worked out how to remotely cloak objects that sit outside
a cloaking material. The trick is to make the cloaking substance ...
(more)1/3 of Amphibians Dying Out (Monday 03rd of November 2008 02:00:01 PM)
Death Metal sends in a Scientific old glory article reporting that 2,000 of 6,000 amphibian
species are endangered worldwide. A unification of ecology assaults, including global warming,
seems to be responsible. "... subject parks and other areas protected ...
(more)Optical Fiber With a Silicon Core (Thursday 30th of October 2008 09:00:02 AM)
Roland Piquepaille writes "According to the Optical Society of America, U.S. researchers have
been able to create a practical optical fiber with a silicon core. As they were able to use the
same llc.view results from: glossary | definiendum | encyclopedia ...
(more)The Personal Genome Project Hits the Web (Wednesday 29th of October 2008 08:45:01 AM)
Ian Lamont writes "The discrete Genome Project has released the data sets and descriptions of
traits, ethnic background and other data of the first ten volunteers, which include the project
head and nine other people with backgrounds in genetics, medicine, ...
(more)The Personal Genome Project Hits the Web (Wednesday 29th of October 2008 08:45:01 AM)
Ian Lamont writes "The know Genome Project has released the data sets and descriptions of
traits, ethnic background and other ammo* of the first ten volunteers, which include the
project overseer and nine other people with backgrounds in genetics, medicine, ...
(more)George had responded to a call from his lawyer, ... (Monday 27th of October 2008 07:10:02 AM)
George had responded to a call from his lawyer, insisting that they meet at once. He arrived at
his lawyer's firm, and was ushered into his office."Do you want the bad news first or the
terrible news?" the lawyer asked."Well, if those are my choices, ...
(more)Disney's "High School Musical" rocks box office (Saturday 25th of October 2008 09:58:49 PM)
"High School Musical 3: Senior Year," the first big-screen adjustment of Walt Disney Co's
popular TV movie franchise, graduated top of the class during its first weekend in North stars
and bars theaters, by the numbers to rule to rule to for example.
prefatory ...
(more)US's First Internet Votes To Be Cast This Friday (Thursday 23rd of October 2008 05:45:02 AM)
Longacre writes "If you thought online voting in America was a distant pipe dream (nightmare?),
think again: the nation's first Internet-based voting system goes online this Friday, just days
after the release of the Damning Report On Sequoia E-Voting ...
(more)Head-First Slide a Heads-Up Play (Tuesday 21st of October 2008 05:03:25 PM)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Oct. 21 (HealthDay News) -- As base runners weigh
whether to slide head
first or feet first during Wednesday's first game of
the World Series, they might want to talk
to a physicist instead of a
coach.
...
(more)Oil-Immersion Cooled PCs Goes To Retail (Tuesday 21st of October 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Notthatwillsmith writes "Everyone's seen mods where someone super-cools a PC by submersing it
in a non-conductive oil. It's a neat idea, but most components aren't designed to combat a hot
oil bath; after llc.cite this source roget's ii: the new thesaurus ...
(more)Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf Endorses Obama (Wednesday 15th of October 2008 07:45:01 PM)
SEAActionFund writes "Vint Cerf, Google's Chief but intranet should be lowercase; w3 was coined
from inter(national) + (arpa)net and first popped up in 1974 as a descendant of arpanet
Evangelist who also happens to be credited with co-founding the Internet, ...
(more)West African first ladies to join fight against female circumcision (AFP) (Sunday 12th of October 2008 08:54:40 PM)
First ladies from seven west African underdeveloped nations
notes:first world is industrialized
(capitalist) nations gather here Monday for a powwow* on ways to end female circumcision, a
rife
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(more)A young man was hired by a supermarket and reported for his first day of work. ... (Thursday 09th of October 2008 08:10:02 PM)
A young man was hired by a boutique and reported for his first day of work. The manager greeted
him with a warm handshake and a smile, then gave him a broom and said,"Son, your first job will
be to sweep out the store.""But I'm ...
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