Blue rose

Plant gene replacement results in the world's only blue rose

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 04, 2005 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (106) | comments 2

Australian and Japanese researchers have demonstrated the application of RNAi technology for gene replacement in plants, developing the world's only blue rose.


Hitachi Demos 230 Gb Per Square Inch Data Density on Perpendicular Recording

Hitachi Demos 230 Gb Per Square Inch Data Density on Perpendicular Recording

Technology /

created Apr 04, 2005 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

1 Terabyte Hard Drives Possible Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is today announcing new advancements to a 100-year-old magnetic recording technology that will set the stage for ultra-high capacities such as a ...


First Nano Grows Ultra-Long High Purity Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

First Nano Grows Ultra-Long High Purity Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

Nanotechnology /

created Apr 04, 2005 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

First Nano grows high-density vertically aligned carbon nanotubes over 1 mm long. First Nano today announced that lab experiments with the EasyTube 2000 System has proven to grow high purity, vertically ali ...


Ophthalmologists and physicists team up to design 'bionic eye'

Physics /

created Apr 04, 2005 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Stanford physicists and eye doctors have teamed up to design a "bionic eye," of sorts. On Feb. 22 in the Journal of Neural Engineering, Daniel Palanker, Alexander Vankov and Phil Huie from the Department of Ophthalmology ...


Astronomers Discover Mysterious New Star Clusters

Astronomers Discover Mysterious New Star Clusters

Space & Earth /

created Apr 04, 2005 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A UK-led team of astronomers has discovered a completely new type of star cluster around a neighbouring galaxy. The new-found clusters contain hundreds of thousands of stars, a similar number to the so-called “gl ...


Kids follow unhealthy role models - parents

Other Sciences /

created Apr 04, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fat teenagers rejoice, you can now blame your parents and the first five years of your life for your plumpness. New Brisbane research proves fat parents are more likely to have fat children who will grow into fat teenagers if ...


Numerical simulation of Andromeda galaxy and Milky Way colliding, Image: J. Dubinski

Collaboration between musician and astronomer captures galactic events

Space & Earth /

created Apr 04, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The swirling galaxies creep towards each other until their bright epicentres collide, sending ribbons of light into the blackness. It is both a beautiful and awesome image -- hard to believe that somewhere ...


Social Stress Boosts Immune System's Flu-Fighting Abilities

Other Sciences /

created Apr 04, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study in mice suggests that, in certain cases, stress may enhance the body's ability to fight the flu. Short bouts of intense social stress improved the ability in the mice to recover from the flu. The stress apparently did ...


Memory-Tech World First HD DVD Disc Measurement System for Mass Production Line

Technology /

created Apr 04, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Memory-Tech Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) developed the world first HD DVD disc measurement system for mass production line quality assurance. The system was completed by Memory-Tech and its affiliate, Diskware Corporation, ...


Making the intelligent workspace a reality

Other Sciences /

created Apr 04, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

"Our plan is to have 'the' operating system for buildings." So says Richard Green, CEO of the newly-established Cambridge (UK) start-up Ubisense, about his company’s revolutionary new technology for locating staff within ...


DART flight demonstrator, top left, rendezvous with the MUBLCOM satellite, bottom right, in orbit

NASA's robotic spacecraft to be launched on April 15

Space & Earth /

created Apr 04, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

After a series of delays, NASA's Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology (DART) spacecraft is finally scheduled to launch at 1:21 p.m. EDT, April 15 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. DART is ...


You Are What You Listen to

You Are What You Listen to

Other Sciences /

created Apr 04, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Users of Digital Music Sharing System Judge Others by their Playlists Co-workers sharing digital music in the workplace via Apple Computer’s popular iTunes software form impressions of each other based on t ...


New alloy verified for safer disposal of spent nuclear energy fuel

Physics /

created Apr 04, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new alloy developed and patented by researchers at Lehigh University, Sandia National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory could help the U.S. dispose more safely of 50,000 tons of spent nuclear energy fuel that are ...


Gates Scholar Aims to Revolutionize Computing

Technology /

created Apr 04, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Anthony Hylick doesn’t want much out of life, only to help develop what could be the biggest revolution in computing since the Internet. Now, he'll have his chance. As Georgia Tech's latest recipient of the Gates Cambridge Sch ...


APT Living Room

LG Pioneers Tomorrow's Home Today

Electronics /

created Apr 04, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

LG Electronics Initiates First LnCP Consortium for Standardization of Home Networks LG Electronics (LG) is leading the international expansion of groundbreaking "Home Network" technology, connecting all home a ...



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