Word: detectible
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...blood test developed by Professor Amin I. Kassis of Harvard Medical School may be able to detect several different types of cancer far sooner and more accurately than current cancer screening methods allow...
...vote total (20,391,818), the runner-up for the title of World's Most Influential Person, Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim, received a mere 47 on the influence scale. Moot denies knowing about any concerted plan by his followers to influence the poll, though TIME.com's technical team did detect and extinguish several attempts to hack the vote. (See the full results here...
...people since 2003 but doesn't spread very well from one human to another, we're currently at phase 3. If the WHO upgraded that status to phase 4, which is marked by a new virus that begins to pass easily enough from person to person that we can detect community-sized outbreaks, such a move would effectively mean that we've got a pandemic on our hands...
...stars. “Harvard is very much involved [with Kepler], providing the scientific backing for the mission,” said Sasselov. Scientists said that they are optimistic about Kepler’s potential to uncover more planets beyond our Solar System. “Kepler may actually detect Earth-like planets,” said CFA scientist Scott J. Kenyon, who added that the search for Earth-like planets is a major goal of exoplanet research. “We’re trying to find lower and lower mass planets that are more and more similar...
...before we even begin to clean up our energy sources. The key is to add 21st century speed and intelligence (i.e., the Internet) to the 20th century infrastructure of the power grid - voilà, a "smart grid." The result would be a system that allows power utilities to remotely detect and respond to outages; that lets consumers program their appliances to use electricity when it's most abundant, allowing power companies to reduce waste; and through which new sources of alternative power could be channeled into the towns and cities that need it. (Read "Solar Power: Eco-Friendly or Environmental...