Household germ warfare: antibacterial and antibiotic agents are everywhere. Now the bugs are fighting back

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Stuart Levy, , a researcher on drug resistance at Tufts Medical Center, says most disinfectants work no better than ordinary soap and water. And he says some disinfectants alter a home's microbiology by destroying weak bacteria and leaving stong, possibly dangerous ones to thrive.

Drug resistance in microorganisms, Microbial drug resistance, Tufts University. School of Medicine, Levy, Stuart

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R is for robot

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An overview on the human-robot research program conducted check the reactions of children to the robots named Rubi and Qrio at Early Childhood Education Centre in San Diego is presented.

Children, Study and teaching

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Roam free

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Combining sensory perception and spatial congnition has proved to be a particularly difficult problem.?Consequently, robots still lack?a true sense of space.

Pattern recognition, Pattern recognition (Computers), Cover Story, 21st century AD, Space and time, Spacetime, Space, Space perception, Object recognition (Computers)

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