High-capacity serial ATA (SATA) disk drives are now a mainstay in many storage systems and make it feasible for almost any company to obtain a storage system with terabytes of capacity at a reasonable cost. Yet these systems reveal a specific, known deficiency of SATA disk drives that demand companies exercise caution as to what [...]

The British economy could shrink for a quarter or two and inflation may near 4 per cent this year, the Bank of England said on Wednesday in its bleakest forecasts since the Labour government took power in 1997.
Economists said the expected spike in inflation even further above the central bank’s 2 per cent target meant [...]

Researchers at the NIPH%26rsquo;s Medical Birth Registry and the University of Bergen have collected data on all first-time births from 1967-1996 and subsequent births until 2003. This covers nearly 600 000 births, so the results are statistically significant.
%26ndash; Our finding confirms that from other studies; that women who give birth to their first child by [...]

Transport processes in the cells of our body resemble the transport of goods on the roads. Molecular motors, which are special protein molecules, act as trucks. They carry the cellular cargo on piggy-back and transport it along microtubules, which are the roads of the cell. However, the molecular transporters are a billion times smaller than [...]