50% of female graduates see value and benefits of college

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Fifty percent of all women who have graduated from a four-year college give the U.S. higher education system excellent or good marks for the value it provides given the money spent by students and their families but only 37% of male graduates agree. Also, women who have graduated from college are more likely than men to say their education helped them to grow both personally and intellectually. These results of a nationwide Pew Research Center survey come at a time when women surpass men by record numbers in college enrollment and completion.

 

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World’s oldest fossils could give clues about life on Mars

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This cluster of cells is one example of the spheroidal and ellipsoidal microfossils found at the 3.4-billion-year-old.

Scientists say life thrived on Earth 3.4 billion years ago even though the world still had no oxygen.  But now they say they have the world’s oldest fossils to prove it.

 

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Marc Andreessen explains why software is ‘eating the world’

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Groupon, Facebook, and LinkedIn investor Marc Andreessen.

Hewlett-Packard announced this week that it is exploring jettisoning its struggling PC business in favor of investing more heavily in software, where it sees better potential for growth. Google plans to buy up the cellphone handset maker Motorola Mobility.  Hewlett-Packard and Google’s  moves surprised the tech world.  Marc Andreessen (board member at Hewlett-Parckard) explains why software is eating the world.

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QinetiQ introduces unmanned micro military robot

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QinetiQ North America (QNA), a defense technology company has launched a ten-pound tyke of a robot that can operate in hostile military environments, doing reconnaissance before fighters come in. The DR10 robot is designed as a lightweight offshoot of the company’s Dragon Runner military robots. The new DR Lite edition is intended specifically for supporting small military units and first responders.

 

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Quantum entanglement could mean completely secure data transfer

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Entangled is good?

By tapping into Albert Einstein’s idea of “spooky action at a distance,” researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute have discovered what might be the key to completely secure data transfer — keeping particles “entangled” for up to an hour…

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Ecstasy could be used to treat cancer

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A modified form of ecstasy could help treat certain types of cancers.

“Researchers from Birmingham University claimed the designer drug, also known as MDMA, could be used to treat leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma after making it 100 times more effective at suppressing growth. Ecstasy was already known to be effective against more than half of white blood cell cancers, but previously the large dose required to treat a tumour would also have killed the patient.

 

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Police in California using computers to predict future crimes

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The Santa Cruz police department doesn’t utilize mutant precogs but a computer program that can predict when and where crimes will occur.

The police force in Santa Cruz, California is performing a little experiment.  They are using computer programs to predict where crimes will occur, and then sending officers to those areas before any crimes are reported, just like in Minority Report.

 

 

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Tracking Trends in VideoCam Technology

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Futurist Thomas Frey:  Many dental offices today use a device called an intraoral camera to show patients why they need a root canal. With little more than a camera on the end of a lighted wand, the technology gives people a new insider perspective into one of the least observed, yet most used, parts of the human body – the mouth. (Pics)

 

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Study: single people may die younger

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Single men could die about a decade earlier than married men. Single women don’t fare much better.

Being single is great, isn’t it? You get to sleep on either side of the bed; you never have to wait for the bathroom; you’ve got all that “me time.” Except, well, you may be one of the unlucky singles who keel over about one decade earlier than your married friends, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

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