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Apple CEO Steve Jobs hit the star-studded red carpet at the 82nd Academy Awards yesterday evening. Oscar night was big for Jobs. He not only traded in his trademark turtleneck for his tux, but his company also debuted its first-ever iPad ad, which was aired twice during the three-and-a-half-hour Academy...

Apple aired its first iPad ad during the 2010 Oscars yesterday evening, at which Steve Jobs, in full black-tie apparel, was in attendance The iPad ad follows the template for...

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Posted on: Monday, 8 March 2010, 07:19 CST A new online database promises that some of the country’s 100,000+ missing persons cases could be solved, but only a small percentage of law agencies are using it. Dubbed NamUS, the online database offers a quick way to check whether a missing person might be among 40,000 unidentified bodies that are stored at any given time in medical examiners labs across the country. The database search is a free service, but many law enforcement agencies are not aware of it, and others aren’t convinced it works. Many people are hoping for that to change. According to the ASsociated Press , Janice Smolinski is one of those people. Her son, Billy, went missing...

Posted on: Monday, 8 March 2010, 06:45 CST Panasonic Corporation is planning to work with the top US electronics chain Best Buy to boost sales of its 3D TVs in the United States, reported Japan’s leading newspaper the Nikkei Business Daily...

Posted on: Monday, 8 March 2010, 06:33 CST Carbon nanotube sensor detects hydrogen peroxide emanating from a single living cell MIT chemical engineers have built a sensor array that, for the first time, can detect single molecules of hydrogen peroxide emanating from a single living cell. Hydrogen peroxide has long been known to damage cells and their DNA, but scientists have recently uncovered evidence that points to a more beneficial role: it appears to act as a...

PR: Why is Europa such an attractive target for planetary scientists? RP: Europa rises to the top of places that we want to explore in the Solar System, because we're trying to understand whether it's an environment where life could possibly exist. Europa probably has a subsurface ocean of liquid water, where that ocean is in direct contact with rock below it and that ocean is below an ice shell that is relatively thin. So Europa may have the ingredients for life. It almost certainly has liquid water and probably has the molecules from which life can be built. And a big question is whether it has the chemical energy that can allow for life in that ocean below the surface. EUROPA JUPITER...

London: Blame the prevalence of ginger hair among the Scottish people on genes and even the weather, says a new study. A genetics research student Emily Pritchard, 26, revealed her insights in an article about her sister's red hair for a University of Edinburgh magazine. She explained the love of ginger hair among the Scots through a formula - genetic mutation + bad...

WASHINGTON: Significant differences exist in the sleep habits and attitudes of Asians, Blacks/African-Americans, Hispanics and Whites, revealed the 2010 Sleep in America poll by the National Sleep Foundation It is the first poll to examine sleep among these four ethnic groups. The poll found that more than three-fourths of respondents from each ethnic group agree that poor sleep is associated with health problems . The poll also shows that all groups report disturbingly similar experiences missing work or family functions because they were too sleepy . Among...

London: A newly software could enable a common laboratory device to virtually separate a whole-blood sample into its different cell types and detect medically important gene-activity changes specific to any one of those cell types. Developed by scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine, the new technique could successfully pinpoint changes in one cell type that flagged the likelihood of kidney-transplant recipients rejecting their new organs. Without the software, these gene-activity flags...

Washington DC: A research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found a way to transform the most widely used polymer, polyethylene, into a material that conducts heat just as well as most metals, yet remains an electrical insulator. The new process causes the polymer to conduct heat very efficiently in just one direction, unlike metals, which conduct equally well in all...

 

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