The good news in our DNA: Defects you can fix with vitamins and minerals
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Jun 02, 2008 |
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As the cost of sequencing a single human genome drops rapidly, with one company predicting a price of $100 per person in five years, soon the only reason not to look at your "personal genome" will be fear of what bad news ...
Scientists show quantum systems could flout physics law
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Scientists in the Weizmann Institute's Faculty of Chemistry, together with colleagues in Germany, have made a startling prediction: Simply 'taking the temperature' of certain quantum systems at frequent intervals might cause ...
Scientists find new 'quasiparticles'
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Weizmann Institute physicists have demonstrated, for the first time, the existence of 'quasiparticles' with one quarter the charge of an electron. This finding could be a first step toward creating exotic types of quantum ...
New Fingerprint Breakthrough by Forensic Scientists
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Forensic scientists at the University of Leicester, working with Northamptonshire Police, have announced a major breakthrough in crime detection which could lead to hundreds of cold cases being reopened.
New, flexible computers use displays with any shape
Jun 02, 2008 |
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The shape of things to come in the computer world will be anything but flat, predicts Queen's University Computing professor Roel Vertegaal, who is now developing prototypes of these new "non-planar" devices ...
Newly discovered extrasolar planet is the smallest known and has smallest host star
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Astronomers have discovered an extrasolar planet only three times more massive than our own, the smallest yet observed orbiting a normal star. The star itself is not large, perhaps as little as one twentieth ...
Phoenix Scoops Up Martian Soil
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 02, 2008 |
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One week after landing on far-northern Mars, NASA Phoenix spacecraft lifted its first scoop of Martian soil as a test of the lander's Robotic Arm.
A computer that can 'read' your mind
Jun 02, 2008 |
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For centuries, the concept of mind readers was strictly the domain of folklore and science fiction. But according to new research published today in the journal Science, scientists are closer to knowing how sp ...
Heart of the Crab Pulsar probed -- first direct look into the core of a neutron star
Jun 02, 2008 |
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New information about the heart of one of the most famous objects in the sky -- the Crab Pulsar in the Crab Nebula -- has been revealed by an international team of scientists searching for gravitational waves. ...
Nanotech process produces plastics that are 10 times more stretchable
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Move over, Rumplestiltskin. Researchers in China report the first successful “electrospinning” of a type of plastic widely used in automobiles and electronics. The high-tech process, which uses an electric ...
Microrobots dance on something smaller than a pin's head
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Microscopic robots crafted to maneuver separately without any obvious guidance are now assembling into self-organized structures after years of continuing research led by a Duke University computer scientist.
Phoenix Lander Leaves 'Footprints' on Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 02, 2008 |
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander reached out and touched the Martian soil for the first time on Saturday, May 31, the first step in a series of actions expected to bring soil and ice to the lander's experiments.
Bamboo instant houses will soon shelter Sichuan quake victims
Jun 02, 2008 |
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A USC Viterbi School of Engineering professor on sabbatical in China has created a prototype of a sturdy, quick-to-build bamboo house designed to help the vast number of people made homeless by the May 12 ...
Physicists determine density limit for randomly packed spherical materials
Jun 02, 2008 |
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The problem of how many identical-sized spheres can be randomly packed into a container has challenged mathematicians for centuries. A team of physicists at The City College of New York (CCNY) has come up with a solution ...
Long-term cannabis users may have structural brain abnormalities
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Long-term, heavy cannabis use may be associated with structural abnormalities in areas of the brain known as the hippocampus and amygdala, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of ...
