New motor first to be powered by living bacteria
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A new motor designed by scientists from Japan offers the best of both worlds: the living and the non-living. The group built a hybrid micromachine that is powered by gliding bacteria which travels on an inorganic ...
Physicians Stop Liver Cancer with Millions of Glass Beads
Oct 12, 2006 |
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University of Cincinnati (UC) physicians are using a new technique that involves injecting patients with millions of tiny radioactive glass beads to control advanced, inoperable liver cancer.
New method edges closer to holy grail of modern chemistry
Oct 12, 2006 |
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University of Chicago chemist David Mazziotti has developed a new method for determining the behavior of electrons in atoms and molecules, a key ingredient in predicting chemical properties and reactions. He presented the ...
New Quantum Technology Controls Molecules
Oct 12, 2006 |
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A research team at the National Research Council Canada (Ottawa) has developed a new quantum technology which uses laser pulses to control quantum processes. The method, which is described in the October 13th ...
Day and night temps measured on an extrasolar planet
Oct 12, 2006 |
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For the first time, astronomers have measured the day and night temperatures of a planet outside our solar system. The team revealed that a giant Jupiter-like gas planet orbiting very close to its star is blisteringly ...
Embryo Fossils Reveal Animal Complexity 10 Million Years Before Cambrian Explosion
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 12, 2006 |
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Fossilized embryos predating the Cambrian Explosion by 10 million years provide evidence that early animals had already begun to adopt some of the structures and processes seen in today's embryos, say researchers from Indiana ...
Molecular Spintronic Action Confirmed in Nanostructure
Oct 12, 2006 |
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have made the first confirmed “spintronic” device incorporating organic molecules, a potentially superior approach for innovative electronics ...
Flies in a spider's web: Galaxy caught in the making
Oct 12, 2006 |
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In nature spiders earn our respect by constructing fascinating, well-organised webs in all shapes and sizes. But the beauty masks a cruel, fatal trap. Analogously, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found ...
How the Immune System Avoids Attacking Itself
Oct 12, 2006 |
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A finding by University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers about how immune cells "decide" to become active or inactive may have applications in fighting cancerous tumors, autoimmune diseases, and organ transplant ...
First detailed pictures of asteroid reveal bizarre system
Oct 12, 2006 |
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The first detailed images of a binary asteroid system reveal a bizarre world where the highest points on the surface are actually the lowest, and the two asteroids dance in each other's gravitational pull.
Researchers make nanosheets that mimic protein formation
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 12, 2006 |
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How to direct and control the self-assembly of nanoparticles is a fundamental question in nanotechnology. University of Michigan researchers have discovered a way to make nanocrystals in a fluid assemble into free-floating ...
Researchers Find Smallest Cellular Genome
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Oct 12, 2006 |
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The smallest collection of genes ever found for a cellular organism comes from tiny symbiotic bacteria that live inside special cells inside a small insect.
Chemists reinvent the science and industry of making plastics
Oct 12, 2006 |
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Chemists at the University of Pennsylvania have created a new process for free radical polymerization, the chemical reaction responsible for creating an enormous array of everyday plastic products, from Styrofoam cups to ...
Molecular 'Signature' Protects Cells from Viruses
Oct 12, 2006 |
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Viruses are cunning little parasites: they breed by forcing the affected cells to do what they want. By fake commands they get them to produce new viruses. However, the cell often notices that there is something fishy going ...
Scientists deny comet collision prediction
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 12, 2006 |
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Astronomers at Russia's Pulkovo Observatory are refuting a prediction that a giant comet will collide with the Earth late this month.
