A test for new physics, including string theory
Feb 05, 2007 |
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Detractors of string theory have been deriding it for years, claiming that there is no way to test it. However, with a paper published in Physical Review Letters titled “Falsifying Models of New Physics via WW Scattering”, that c ...
Human skin harbors completely unknown bacteria
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It appears that the skin, the largest organ in our body, is a kind of zoo and some of the inhabitants are quite novel, according to a new study. Researchers found evidence for 182 species of bacteria in skin ...
Research integrates photonic circuitry on a silicon chip
Feb 05, 2007 |
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In work that could lead to completely new devices, systems and applications in computing and telecommunications, MIT researchers are bringing the long-sought goal of "optics on a chip" one step closer to market.
Chemists show that nature could have used different protein building blocks
Feb 05, 2007 |
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Chemists at Yale have done what Mother Nature chose not to — make a protein-like molecule out of non-natural building blocks, according to a report featured early online in the Journal of the American Chemical ...
World's oldest rocks show how Earth may have dodged frozen fate of Mars
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 05, 2007 |
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Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that has become a bane of modern society, may have saved Earth from freezing over early in the planet's history, according to the first detailed laboratory analysis of the world's ...
Scientists find why conductance of nanowires vary
Feb 05, 2007 |
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A Georgia Tech physics group has discovered how and why the electrical conductance of metal nanowires changes as their length varies. In a collaborative investigation performed by an experimental team and ...
181 Things To Do On The Moon
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 05, 2007 |
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If you woke up tomorrow morning and found yourself on the moon, what would you do? NASA has just released a list of 181 good ideas.
Beyond the DNA: Chemical signatures reveal genetic switches in the genome
Feb 05, 2007 |
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Investigators from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have made a breakthrough in identifying functional elements in the human genome, according ...
MIT improves protein sorting with a new microchip
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 05, 2007 |
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A new MIT microchip system promises to speed up the separation and sorting of biomolecules such as proteins. The work is important because it could help scientists better detect certain molecules, or biomarkers, ...
Sea creature's toxin could lead to promising cancer treatment
Feb 05, 2007 |
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A toxin derived from a reclusive sea creature resembling a translucent doughnut has inspired UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers to develop a related compound that shows promise as a cancer treatment.
Physicists identify molecular cause for one form of deafness
Feb 05, 2007 |
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Scientists exploring the physics of hearing have found an underlying molecular cause for one form of deafness, and a conceptual connection between deafness and the organization of liquid crystals, which are used in flat-panel ...
New finding helps further understanding of X-ray bursts
Feb 05, 2007 |
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X-ray bursts are among the most fascinating of astrophysical phenomena. Now, a new finding by a team led by University of Notre Dame astrophysicist Michael Wiescher will enable researchers to derive many more ...
'Good vibrations' from deep-sea smokers may keep fish out of hot water
Biology /
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So you're a fish. Right now some tubeworm tartare and clams on the half shell would really hit the spot, so you're headed for the all-night café. "All-night" being the operative word because the volcanic ridge ...
Self-assembling nanostructures of DNA -- a biotechnologist's dream
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 05, 2007 |
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Wouldn't it be great if we could get computer chips to grow on trees? Or at least use the specific bonds of DNA molecules to get nanostructures to grow themselves right in the test tube? This technology could be used to build ...
Changes in amino acids in the 1918 influenza virus cut transmission
Feb 05, 2007 |
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(Modest changes in the 1918 flu virus's hemagglutinin receptor binding site—a molecular structure critical for the spread of infection—stopped viral transmission in ferrets, according to a new study conducted by researchers ...
