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...search for alternative energy is nothing new, but the current crop of innovators is focusing on the long-elusive goal of making clean and sustainable power a mainstream commodity. For example, the fuel cell--which extracts electricity from the chemical reaction between oxygen and hydrogen--has been around for about 150 years, though its commercial deployment did not begin until the 1960s and then only as part of NASA spacecraft. Today this technology is coming down to Earth in places like Tokyo, where Japan's first hydrogen-fuel filling station opened in June; in nine European cities, from Stockholm...
When hydrogen and oxygen molecules combine, the reaction produces heat and water. Fuel cells harness this reaction to generate electricity. With the cell-phone and gadget market in mind, Medis has developed a fuel cell with cheap components that generates little heat and effortlessly eliminates waste water without resorting to energy-gobbling pumps. One of the attractions of fuel cells is that they can be big enough to run a factory or small enough to fit under the hood of a car. Medis' innovation is a type of micro--fuel cell, a power source that's small enough to slip...
...Also known as the glycated hemoglobin test, A1C is a blood test that provides a record of your glucose levels over two to three months. Glucose in the blood attaches to hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells that ferries oxygen, forming glycated hemoglobin. Because red blood cells circulate in the body for several months, levels of glycated hemoglobin are a good marker for average blood-glucose levels over time...
...weighing less than 3.3 lbs. and at risk of chronic lung disease. University of Chicago researchers reported last week that the outlook for such neonates could be improved with low doses of nitric oxide. In a study of 207 preemies, doctors gave half the group nitric oxide with their oxygen; the other half got the standard stuff. While 85% survived in the nitric oxide group, only 78% of the controls did. Of the nitric oxide infants, 61% were free of lung disease; that was true of 47% of the oxygen-only group. Nitric oxide babies got off ventilators and went...
...have lured around 4 million viewers for hot shows like The Shield and The Sopranos. But BBCA's numbers are high enough to earn a Nielsen rating, which puts it beyond the fringe cable channels. In the chase for ad dollars, that places it in league with National Geographic, Oxygen and the Women's Entertainment network. "We deliver the most upscale targeted trendsetting audience in cable," says Lee, referring to a recently completed viewership study for the channel...