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'Cannabis' brain tumour drug hope - BBC An ingredient in marijuana may be useful for treating brain cancers, say Spanish researchers from Madrid. Chemicals called cannabinoids could starve tumours to death by halting the growth of blood vessels that feed it, the Complutense University team hope. By studying mice, the team has shown for the first time how these chemicals block vessel growth. Their study, published in Cancer Research, also shows the treatment appears to work in humans. "The present findings provide a novel pharmacological target for cannabinoid-based therapies," said Dr Guzmán. |
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Wireless net to get speed boost - BBC Wireless networks could soon be running 10 times faster than they do now. Competing technology groups are proposing different ways to speed up the data rates of wi-fi which could reach 540 megabits per second. The battling technologies, called WWise and TGn Sync, are being assessed by the US organisation that rubber stamps improvements to wireless technology. Both proposals to speed up wi-fi exist largely on paper and could take years to find their way into hardware. Final decisions on the 802.11n standard are not expected before 2007. |
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Hungry world 'must eat less meat' - BBC World water supplies will not be enough for our descendants to enjoy the sort of diet the West eats now, experts say. The World Water Week in Stockholm will be told the growth in demand for meat and dairy products is unsustainable. Siwi says: Animals need much more water than grain to produce the same amount of food. "With about 840 million people undernourished or lacking a secure food supply today, and another two billion or more people... by 2025, feeding the world's growing population - and finding the water to grow the food - continues to be a basic and sizeable challenge." |
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Biosciences:
8/29/2004: Hormone-charged birds force out rivals - MSNBC
8/29/2004: Tiniest baby thrives as teenager - Nature
8/29/2004: Biologists fear cloning hype will undermine stem-cell research - Nature
Climate, Environment:
8/29/2004: Hungry world 'must eat less meat'
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BBC
8/29/2004: ‘Hot spots’ flag future weather - MSNBC
8/29/2004: Stiffer rules required to stop commerce milking Antarctica - Nature
8/29/2004: Hurricane Charley highlights prediction problems - Nature
8/29/2004: Crisis foments as unstable lake builds in the Himalayas - Nature
8/29/2004: Species mix across Panama Canal - Nature
8/29/2004: Greenland ice sheet to get underhand inspection - Nature
Computers:
Devices
8/29/2004: Apple's iPod winning over Japanese fans - CNN
8/29/2004: California passes game bill - CNN
8/29/2004: Play gets rough in baseball 'SlugFest' - CNN
8/29/2004: Casio Announces World's Smallest Optical Zoom Digital Camera - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: Sony Hits Sweet 16X With New DVD Burners - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: Sony Debuts New Photo
Printer: Compact Size, Lab Quality Prints - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: palmOne Expands Reach of Bluetooth Technology-enabled Handhelds With Wi-Fi Connectivity - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: Researchers seek to turn the tide on problem of acid seas - Nature
Communications
8/29/2004: Wireless net to get speed boost
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BBC
8/29/2004: SOLARFLARE Communications Completes Industry`s Highest Performance Analog Signal Processor Creating the First Fully Integrated Transceiver for 10 Gbps Ethernet Traffic Over Unshielded Twisted Pair -UTP- Copper Cable - El.
Engr. Times
Technology
8/29/2004: China readies its first 3G chip - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: First virus emerges aimed at AMD 64-bit processors - El.
Engr. Times
PC's
8/29/2004: Alienware's AlienGUIse(TM) Theme Manager Offers Creative New Take on the Traditional Computer Desktop - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: Microsoft Announces Release of Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 as Part of Windows XP Service Pack 2 - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: General Dynamics C4 Systems to Develop Wearable, Fuel-Cell Driven Tablet Computers for U.S. Air Force - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: IDT DDR2 DIMM Support Products Selected by Elpida Memory, Inc.; Leading DRAM Manufacturer Leverages IDT Products; Delivers 2-Gbyte DDR2 Dual In-line Memory Modules - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: Nanostorage Market to Reach $65.7 Billion by 2011 - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: Revolutionary New Computer Cooling Technology Enables Processor to Run at Optimum Speed - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: Gateway's 'Keep Your Hard Drive' Service Plan Prevents Data From Walking Out the Front Door - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: Cosmic Log: The Grid grows together - MSNBC
Internet
8/29/2004: Music on your hard drive made easy - CNN
8/29/2004: Online travel growing, but at slower rate - CNN
8/29/2004: Sweet smell of online business - CNN
8/29/2004: Imperva Unveils Next Generation Firewall Technology- Dynamic Profiling - El.
Engr. Times
Miscellaneous
8/29/2004: Your music, differing formats - CNN
8/29/2004: Firms compete to preserve e-records - CNN
Energy:
8/29/2004: Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engines to Provide Alternative to Gasoline - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: CombiMatrix`s Strategic Partner Nanomaterials Discovery Corporation Announces Department of Defense Award for $2.5 Million for Nanotech Fuel Cells - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: Nanosys Awarded U.S. Defense Department Contract to Develop Flexible Solar Cells - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: Sunflower oil adapted for fuel cells - MSNBC
Health:
Cardiovascular
Cancer
8/29/2004: 'Cannabis' brain tumour drug hope
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BBC
Infectious
8/29/2004: Could heart drugs treat
HIV? - Nature
8/29/2004: Herbal medicine spawns antimalarial chemical - Nature
Non-Infectious
Miscellaneous
8/29/2004: Getinge USA Chooses AEI Digital to Create 3D Interactive Operating Room Simulator - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: Sprint-APEC $14.6 Million Partnership to Expand Broadband Access, Enhance Economic Development Health-Care Quality in Eastern North Carolina - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: Firm sets sights on gene silencing to protect vision - Nature
History, Anthropology:
8/29/2004: Cave of the
Baptist? - MSNBC
8/29/2004: Prions speed evolution - Nature
Miscellaneous:
8/29/2004: Biometric tech puts ID at your fingertips - CNN
8/29/2004: The Three Stooges -- in
color? - CNN
8/29/2004: Review: 'Catwoman' less than purr-fect - CNN
8/29/2004: Palmchip Launches Semiconductor Company; Company Opens a Design Center in Pakistan Sells Storage IP to Mentor Graphics - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: TASER(R) International, Inc. Receives Large Orders for TASER Conducted Energy Weapons - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: Leading China Foundry Selects Mattson Technology for New 300 MM Fab - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: Will the Softness in the Semiconductor Equipment Market Signal the End of the
Boom? - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: This time, economic models favor Bush - MSNBC
8/29/2004: Washington will be reborn ... virtually - MSNBC
8/29/2004: California resolves e-voting flap - MSNBC
8/29/2004: Computer turns life into cartoons - Nature
8/29/2004: Sick veterans pin hopes on Gulf War inquiry - Nature
8/29/2004: news in brief - Nature
Neurosciences:
Physics and Astronomy:
8/29/2004: Grains found in Ga. traced to asteroid - MSNBC
8/29/2004: ‘Super Earth’ found circling nearby star - MSNBC
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Space:
8/29/2004: How stunt pilots will grab for stardust - MSNBC
8/29/2004: New moons for Saturn - Nature
8/29/2004: Beagle team hounds space agency over lost lander - Nature
8/29/2004: Mars Odyssey Begins Overtime After Successful Mission
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Technology:
8/29/2004: Fujifilm Introduces DVD+R Double Layer Media; New Technology Doubles Existing DVD Recording Capacity to 8.5 GB - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: Micrel's Latest Tiny Photo Flash LED Driver Lights Up the Latest Generation of White LEDs for Photo Flash Apps
8/29/2004: The Digital Home Explored at MIT Enterprise Forum of Atlanta September Event - El.
Engr. Times
8/29/2004: MEMS
Making Their Mark in Consumer Electronics Finds In-Stat/MDR
- El.
Engr. Times