Most powerful laser in the world fires up
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The Texas Petawatt laser reached greater than one petawatt of laser power on Monday morning, March 31, making it the highest powered laser in the world, Todd Ditmire, a physicist at The University of Texas ...
Scientists Construct Model of the World Wide Web
Apr 08, 2008 |
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Although the Internet contains well over 100 million Web sites, two electrical engineers think they know what the traffic patterns of the entire Web look like.
Scientists find a fingerprint of evolution across the human genome
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Apr 08, 2008 |
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The Human Genome Project revealed that only a small fraction of the 3 billion “letter” DNA code actually instructs cells to manufacture proteins, the workhorses of most life processes. This has raised the question of what ...
Researchers take step toward creating quantum computers using entangled photons in optical fibers
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For now, full-fledged quantum computers are the stuff of science fiction — in last summer’s blockbuster movie Transformers, the bad guys use quantum computing to break into the U.S. Army's secure files in just 10 seconds ...
Cow stomach holds key to turning corn into biofuel
Apr 08, 2008 |
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An enzyme from a microbe that lives inside a cow’s stomach is the key to turning corn plants into fuel, according to Michigan State University scientists.
Team simulates first merger of 3 black holes on a supercomputer
Apr 08, 2008 |
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The same team of astrophysicists that cracked the computer code simulating two black holes crashing and merging together has now, for the first time, caused a three-black-hole collision.
Evolution on the table top
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Evolution has taken another step away from being dismissed as “a theory” in the classroom, thanks to a new paper published this week in the online open-access journal PLoS Biology. The research article, by Brian Paegel and Ge ...
Hubble maps the changing constellation of Internet 'black holes'
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 08, 2008 |
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You're trying to log on to a Web site and it's not working. You try again and again. But persistence doesn't pay off. The site you want is inexplicably, frustratingly, out of reach.
14-year-old CEO makes chemistry a game with 'Elementeo'
Apr 08, 2008 |
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Age seems to be no obstacle when it comes to starting a business. That’s the case with 14-year-old Anshul Samar, CEO of Alchemist Empire, Inc., who invented a trading card game, “Elementeo,” that aims to teach ...
Citrate appears to control buckyball clumping but environmental concerns remain
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 08, 2008 |
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Fullerenes, also fondly known as buckyballs, are showing an ugly side. Since being discovered in 1985, the hollow carbon atoms have been adapted for nanotechnology and biomedical applications ranging from electronics to carriers ...
Scientists develop safe 'green' decontamination method
Apr 08, 2008 |
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Research by two Queen’s scientists has resulted in an exciting new method for rapidly and safely destroying toxic agents such as chemical weapons and pesticides.
Study: Food additives may lower IQ
Apr 08, 2008 |
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A British study suggests artificial color added to food and beverages could lower a child's intelligence.
DVDs and CD-ROMs that thwart global warming
Apr 08, 2008 |
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Carbon dioxide removed from smokestack emissions in order to slow global warming in the future could become a valuable raw material for the production of DVDs, beverage bottles and other products made from ...
Clip-on wind and solar charger powers your mobile devices
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 08, 2008 |
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You're riding your bike, the wind's in your hair - and now it can be in your miniature wind and solar charger clipped to your handlebars or upper arm. A company called miniWIZ has developed a handheld universal ...
Adults who eat apples, drink apple juice have lower risk for metabolic syndrome
Apr 08, 2008 |
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Not eating your apple a day? Perhaps you should be. Adults who eat apples, apple juice and applesauce have a significantly reduced risk of metabolic syndrome, a cluster of health problems that are linked to numerous chronic ...
