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Imagine traveling the surface of the Red Planet, observing millennia-old canyons or viewing Martian dust devils first hand. Now, you can with the advent of a new Mars mode in Google Earth that brings to everyone's desktop a high-resolution, three-dimensional view of the Mars.
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Special sheets for bendable displays will soon hit the market.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratorys Madhavi Martin has reinvented an old analytical method, finding some very new applications for the technology in the process.
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Iowa State University researchers have developed a technique for testing for the presence of salmonella that may give investigators better, faster answers.
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With the help of a squid that uses a luminescent bacterium to create a predator-fooling light organ and a fish that uses a different strain of the same species of bacteria like a flashlight to illuminate the dark nooks of the reefs where it lives, scientists have found that gaining a single gene is enough for the microbe to switch host animals.
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In a study published by Nature Biotechnology Mount Sinai Hospital researchers have unveiled a new technology tool that analyzes breast cancer tumors to determine a patient's best treatment options.
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The Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) has announced the winner of the LabAutomation2009 $10,000 ALA Innovation Award.
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LabAct is an educational management program using Improv Theater to explore problems and solutions to common laboratory situations.
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Healthcare consumers, benefits managers, and even government officials are using the internet to buy unapproved prescription drugs illegally, according to a report to be published in the International Journal of Electronic Healthcare.
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A multidisciplinary team of scientists led by the Universit de Montral has discovered a process to produce new metal surfaces that promise to lead to superior medical implants that will improve healing and allow the human body to better accept metal prostheses.
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As technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined, while our visual skills have improved, according to research by Patricia Greenfield, UCLA distinguished professor of psychology and director of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles.
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The National Science Board (Board) intends to revise cost sharing policies at the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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