Archive: 09/08/2005
Nano World: Nano for artificial kidneys
Nanotechnological filters could lead to wearable or implantable artificial kidneys, experts told UPI's Nano World. Animal studies for artificial-kidney prototypes should begin one or two years from now, and clinical trials ...
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Scientists urge Australian clone ban end
Australian scientists are urging an end to a ban on therapeutic cloning, saying such cloning could lead to treatments for many diseases.
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Neurobiologists uncover evidence of a 'memory code'
By examining how sounds are registered during the process of learning, UC Irvine neurobiologists have discovered a neural coding mechanism that the brain relies upon to register the intensity of memories based on the importance ...
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Samsung Introduces New 200GB And 250GB Parallel And Serial ATA With 3.0GB Per Second HDDs
Samsung introduces four new hard disk drives with increased storage capacity to its award winning family. The new SpinPoint P120 Series hard drives include both Serial ATA with 3.0GB per second and Parallel ATA versions and ...
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U.S. company unveils auto GPS/MP3 device
TeleType Company will begin offering a global positioning system combined with an MP3 player for use in automobiles later this month.
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Study: Ice belt encircled Mars' equator
ESA's Mars Express space probe that entered orbit at the end of 2003 may have found evidence of a band of ice that once spanned the Martian equator.
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Xbox goes on tour
"Game Live on Xbox," the video-game tour, has begun hitting college campuses.
Over the next two months the tour, which is also presented by Mountain Dew, is expected to reach some 50,000 videogame enthusiasts at 25 universities.
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Huge Solar Flare Spotted
Scientists are currently tracking a very large flare that occurred on the Sun around 1:40 pm EDT (17:40 UT). The current estimate of the size of the explosion is X-17; that would place the flare as the fifth ...
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Material May Demonstrate Long-Sought 'Liquid' Magnetic State
A novel material that may demonstrate a highly unusual "liquid" magnetic state at extremely low temperatures has been discovered by a team of Japanese and U.S. researchers, according to research published in ...
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Closing In On Quantum Chemistry
Researchers in the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have simulated the process by which a quantum computer could calculate to high precision ...
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Study: The human brain is still evolving
University of Chicago researchers say they've discovered the human brain is apparently still evolving. In two related papers published in the Sept. 9 issue of Science, they show that two genes linked to brain size are ra ...
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OK given to create unique 'dual mother' embryo
British scientists have been given the go-ahead to create a human embryo that will have genetic material from two mothers.
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Odd behavior may lead to creativity
Researchers say they've found a quirky or socially awkward approach to life might be key to becoming a great artist, composer or inventor.
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A new twist on power walking
MBL scientist invents backpack that empowers wearers to generate their own electricity In an unprecedented breakthrough in the development of portable and renewable human-driven energy sources, an MBL (Marine Biological La ...
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Nanohelix structure provides new building block for nanoscale piezoelectric devices
Based on superlattice nanobelts A previously-unknown zinc oxide nanostructure that resembles the helical configuration of DNA could provide engineers with a new building block for creating nanometer-scale senso ...
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