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.
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 ...
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 ...
Most powerful laser in the world fires up
Apr 08, 2008 |
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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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
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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.
Needle-size device created to track tumors, radiation dose
Apr 08, 2008 |
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Engineers at Purdue University are creating a wireless device designed to be injected into tumors to tell doctors the precise dose of radiation received and locate the exact position of tumors during treatment.
Manufactured Buckyballs don't harm microbes that clean the environment
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 08, 2008 |
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Even large amounts of manufactured nanoparticles, also known as Buckyballs, don't faze microscopic organisms that are charged with cleaning up the environment, according to Purdue University researchers.
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 ...
Evolution on the table top
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Apr 08, 2008 |
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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 ...
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.
Misery, not miserly: Even momentary sadness increases spending
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 08, 2008 |
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Off to buy a new handbag and fabulous red shoes, or how about overalls and a riding lawnmower" Before going, a mood check for signs of despair and gloom might be in order because how a person feels can impact ...
Sea salt worsens coastal air pollution: study
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 08, 2008 |
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Air pollution in the world’s busiest ports and shipping regions may be markedly worse than previously suspected, according to a new study showing that industrial and shipping pollution is exacerbated when it combines with ...
