Plastic that grows on trees
Jun 14, 2007 |
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Scientists took a giant step closer to the biorefinery this week, reporting in the June 15 issue of the journal Science that they have directly converted sugars ubiquitous in nature to an alternative source ...
Scientists tailor light waves to desired frequencies
Jun 14, 2007 |
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The ability to control light is vital for many of today’s technologies, most notably in communications and advanced computing. For example, by using materials from mirrors to nanoparticles, scientists can ...
2 qubits in action, new step towards the quantum computer
Jun 14, 2007 |
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Researchers at Delft University of Technology have succeeded in carrying out calculations with two quantum bits, the building blocks of a possible future quantum computer. The Delft researchers are publishing ...
Australia weighs in to make the perfect kilogram
Jun 14, 2007 |
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Australian scientists and optical engineers will be making a perfect sphere that may one day re-define the kilogram – and they have taken delivery of the cylinder of silicon from which it will be made.
Pluto Isn't Even Largest Dwarf Planet
Jun 14, 2007 |
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Die-hard Pluto fans still seeking redemption for their demoted planet have cause for despair this week. New data shows that the dwarf planet Eris is 27 percent more massive than Pluto, thereby strengthening the decree last ...
Samsung Introduces 70'' Full-HD LCD TV with Local Dimming Technology
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 14, 2007 |
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Samsung Electronics has introduced the largest (70 inch) commercially available full high-definition LCD TV in Korea.
Sensing light with 'liquid Lego'
Jun 14, 2007 |
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Scientists at Oxford University and Duke University in the United States have used tiny water droplets to build a unique microscopic light sensor.
Nano technique allows precise injection of living cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 14, 2007 |
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Specialized pulsed lasers have been used to inject individual cells with a variety of materials, but little is known about how this type of injection might affect living cells. For the first time, researchers at Rensselaer ...
Pendulum Finds Virtual Soulmate
Jun 14, 2007 |
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What's nerdier than creating an online avatar that fights dragons and raids strongholds? Creating a virtual pendulum that you can sync up to your real-life pendulum. Leave it to physicists to do just that, resulting in a ...
Double-Duty Nanoparticles Overcome Drug Resistance in Tumors
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 14, 2007 |
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Cancer cells, like bacteria, can develop resistance to drug therapy. In fact, research suggests strongly that multidrug resistant cancer cells that remain alive after chemotherapy are responsible for the reappearance of tumors ...
Paying taxes, according to the brain, can bring satisfaction
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 14, 2007 |
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Want to light up the pleasure center in your brain? Just pay your taxes, and then give a little extra voluntarily to your local food bank. University of Oregon scientists have found that doing those deeds can give you the ...
Emulsion with a round-trip ticket
Jun 14, 2007 |
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Oil and water are not miscible. However, it is possible to combine both into an emulsion in which they act as a unit—for example, in creams, body lotion, milk, or mayonnaise. In these substances, one of the two liquids is ...
Penn researchers link cell's protein recycling systems
Jun 14, 2007 |
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Many age-related neurological diseases are associated with defective proteins accumulating in nerve cells, suggesting that the cell’s normal disposal mechanisms are not operating correctly. Now, researchers ...
Counterfeit toothpaste is discovered
Jun 14, 2007 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said a counterfeit toothpaste falsely packaged as "Colgate" has been found in four states.
Cytokine resistance contributes to pathology of type 2 diabetes
Jun 14, 2007 |
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In a study appearing this month in the Journal of Immunology, researchers at the University of Illinois describe how an impaired anti-inflammatory response plays a role in the pathology of type 2 diabetes.
