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It's ideal for firefighters, police and other emergency workers because it's light, strong and fire resistant and now researchers plan to make Kevlar that will fight germs. At the University of South Dakota, Yuyu Sun and Jie Luo have developed a new method to coat Kevlar with a substance called acyclic N-Halamine. They tested it against E. coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Candida tropicalis (a

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Chirping fish, barking dogs and all the other sounds that issue from an animal's mouth are the products of the neural circuitry likely laid down hundreds of millions of years ago with the hums and grunts of fish, according to a new study. "Fish have all the same parts of the brain that you do," explained study leader Andrew Bass of Cornell University. His team traced the development of the

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Clean technology grew in strength in the United States as increasing amounts of venture capital flowed into the sector in the second quarter of 2008, a new study has shown. There was no slowdown for the surging clean tech sector, which includes such fields as alternative energy, energy efficiency, recycling and water purification and conservation, said the study appearing in the MoneyTree

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Chile plans to invest 31 million U.S. dollars in building three monitoring centers to closely watch volcanic activities, the country's National Geology Service said Saturday. The new centers will be put into operation within five years and employ 40 experts, Mining Minister Santiago Gonzalez said. Chile has the second largest volcanic chain in the world following Indonesia. The country

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A study of the effects of music levels on drinking in a bar setting has found that loud music leads to more drinking in less time. Results will be published in a future issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research and are released Friday at its Early View. "Previous research had shown that fast music can cause fast drinking, and that music versus no music can cause a person to

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot appears to have gotten the best of one of its smaller, younger rival as captured in a recent series of images by the Hubble Space Telescope. The smaller storm first appeared earlier this year, but had the misfortune to get caught up in the reverse cyclone spin of the Great Red Spot. That left the baby red spot deformed and sapped of color as it spun off to the east of

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Solitary scavangers more than a million years ago, spotted hyenas have become more of a communal species, except around dinner time. New research indicates that, to offset the cost of competition among the group, spotted hyenas still demonstrate an ancestral tendency to separate themselves when searching for their next meal. Hyenas do find some strength in numbers in several ways. They

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Although the Archaeopteryx from the Jurassic Period is the worlds first known bird, reptiles such as pterosaurs and kuehneosaurs were flying as far back as 225 million years ago, during the Triassic and before large dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Now scientists say smaller creatures soared between trees on strange fly-like wings and parachutes. They glided like today's flying dragons, small

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A baby "boomlet" may be underway in the United States, according to early federal data released Wednesday that reveal a record 4,315,000 babies were born in 2007. "I can't tell you anything about who's having these babies, but it is an early look and there is an increase," says federal demographer Stephanie Ventura. "It's a milestone." She says details about the mothers won't be available

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In findings that could also hold true for humans, researchers have found that among monkeys and other primates males typically bully females, but when males outnumber females they often prove to be the dominant sex. Monkeys live in pecking orders where the most aggressive rule, and they have to battle for their place in this hierarchy every day. As male primates are usually larger than

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Many of the basics of lightning have been revealed, but scientists admit they don't really understand how lighting gets from one place to another and lightning link to X-rays is still a mystery. "Nobody understands how lightning makes X-rays," says Martin Uman, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Florida. "Despite reaching temperatures five times hotter than

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Yahoo Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang said on Thursday a proposal by billionaire investor Carl Icahn to sell Yahoo "will destroy shareholder value." In a letter to shareholders also signed by Chairman Roy Bostock, Yang accused Icahn of pursuing a short-term strategy with an "incentive to strike any deal with Microsoft that enables him to recover his investment and get back his money

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The European Commission charged the world's biggest computer chip maker Intel with new antitrust conducts on Thursday. The European Union (EU) antitrust watchdog said in a statement that it had sent a letter to Intel outlining its preliminary conclusion that the U.S chip maker had engaged in three additional elements of abusive conduct. "First, Intel has provided substantial rebates to a

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Scientists have created an instrument designed to help determine the shapes and sizes of tinyice crystals typical of those found in high-altitude clouds, down to the micron level, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Optics Letters. The data produced using this instrument likely will help improve computer models used to predict climate change, said the team of scientists

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Scientists have unlocked the mystery of a gene with the potential to regulate ovulation, the U.S. journal Genes & Development reported on Thursday. The new study is accomplished by a group of Canadian and European researchers. "Our findings demonstrate that the Lrh1 geneis essential in regulating ovulation," said Bruce Murphy from University of Montreal in Canada. "Until this point, the

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U.S. federal officials on Wednesday said a device to prevent airplane fuel tanks from exploding must be installed on certain passenger jets and cargo planes. The new safety requirement comes 12 years after such an explosion destroyed the Paris-bound TWA Flight 800, killing all 230 people onboard the Boeing 747. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said passenger and cargo planes that have

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Video-sharing Web site YouTube will shield the identities of users when it hands over viewer data to Viacom, according to an agreement made public on Wednesday. In addition, the agreement stipulates that Viacom and the other companies involved in a one-billion-dollar copyright-infringement lawsuit will not circumvent YouTube's encryption in order to reveal identities, the San Jose Mercury

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Mars once hosted vast lakes, flowing rivers and a variety of other wet environments that had the potential to support life, according to two new studies based on data from instruments on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). By combining data from these high-tech instruments, scientists have identified three principal classes of water-related minerals dating to the early history of

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Going into this year's E3 Media & Business Summit, many of Capcom's faithful were hoping for news on the long-speculated sequel to the 2006 Xbox 360 zombie razer "Dead Rising." Instead, however, Capcom chose to devote its entire E3 press conference to the upcoming silver-screen adaptation of "Lost Planet: Extreme Condition," according to media reports Thursday. "Extreme Condition" will be

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U.S. scientists have developed a completely new and independent technique to weigh the biggest black holes in the universe using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Chandra X-ray Center reported on Wednesday. By measuring a peak in the temperature of hot gas in the center of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4649, scientists have determined the mass of the galaxy's supermassive

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Greater body symmetry and sexy attractive voices tend to go together, suggesting what we hear in a person can affect what we perceive them to be. "The sound of a person's voice reveals a considerable amount of biological information," said Susan Hughes, an evolutionary psychologist from Albright College in Reading, Pa. "It can reflect the mate value of a person." Hughes, whose new study

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Research into using bacteria to produce hydrogen, which has three times more potential energy by weight than gasoline, is making a comeback because of the rising profile of energy issues. Researchers have combined the efforts of two kinds of bacteria to produce hydrogen -- the highest energy-content fuel available -- in a bioreactor, with the product from one providing food for the other.

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Research published Thursday said it was the violent volcano eruptions that caused a shift in ocean circulation and preceded the extinction of marine life nearly 93 million years ago. The extinction was so spectacular that the remains of the tiny victims littered the sea bed in thick layers, and over geological time became transformed into oil. The team estimates that it took up to 23,000

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Tiny changes in a messenger brain chemical acetylcholine can greatly affect powers of attention, according to a paper released by Nature as quoted by media Thursday. Alex Thiele and other researchers at Newcastle University, northeastern England, trained three macaque monkeys to concentrate on a flashing light on a computer screen. The animals were rewarded with fruit juice when they focused

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Tobacco companies manipulate the amount of menthol in cigarettes to make those first few puffs more palatable to young smokers, according to a U.S. researchers's finding as quoted by media Thursday. And such a finding could fuel support for more tobacco regulation in the United States. "Menthol stimulates the cooling receptors in the lung and oral pharynx," said Dr. Gregory Connolly of

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