Deer may have mad-cow-like disease
Health officials in Kansas are investigating a potential case of chronic wasting disease, a brain degeneration in deer and elk similar to mad cow disease.
Jan 20, 2006
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Towards Molecular Electronics: New Way of Making Molecular Transistors
Researchers at Columbia University's Nanoscience Center are on the verge of solving one of the most vexing barriers facing advances in molecular electronics: incorporating individual molecules into functional nanoscale devices ...
Jan 20, 2006
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Microsoft China braces for Google
Analysts see Microsoft's announcement it was consolidating its Chinese R&D assets as a move preparing for increased competition from Google.
Jan 20, 2006
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Sonar reference dropped from whale report
A document made public as a result of a court order says a U.S. government investigator studying the stranding of whales dropped references of naval sonar.
Jan 20, 2006
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Korea protests punitive Japan chip tariff
South Korea warned Friday it would take Japan's punitive tariff on Hynix Semiconductor to the World Trade Organization.
Jan 20, 2006
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Work stress linked to heart disease
A British study of 1,000 civil servants found workplace stress is a major factor in the development of heart disease and diabetes.
Jan 20, 2006
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Wireless World: New roaming standard?
Consumer interest in mobile Internet access continues to climb, and computer industry leaders including Intel Corp. and others are now calling for the creation of a global roaming standard for wireless, experts tell United ...
Jan 20, 2006
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Professors as Science to withhold report
Oregon State University's College of Forestry professors have asked Science to withhold a study that says logging hurts forest regeneration.
Jan 20, 2006
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China salutes TD-SCDMA wireless standard
China Friday declared that TD-SCDMA technology is an officially backed standard for third-generation (3G) mobile-telephone service.
Jan 20, 2006
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Quantum electronics: Two photons and chips
Scientists at Toshiba Research Europe Limited (Cambridge, UK) believe they are on to a way of producing entangled twins of photons using a simple semiconductor electronic device. Such a chip-based source of entangled photons ...
Jan 20, 2006
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