A baseball cap that reads your mind
May 16, 2008 |
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It looks like an ordinary baseball cap. But when you put it on, the cap detects and analyzes the electroencephalogram (EEG) signals from your brain. It can even tell you if you’re getting too sleepy when driving ...
Strange star stumps astronomers
May 16, 2008 |
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An obese oddball of a star has left astronomers wondering how it could have formed. Dr David Champion and his colleagues at CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility publish their findings about the star ...
A Critique of Shortsighted Anthropic Principles
May 16, 2008 |
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Many people marvel that we live in a universe that seems to be precisely tailored to suit the development of intelligent life. The observation is the basis for some forms of "Anthropic Principles" that strive to explain why ...
How small molecule can take apart Alzheimer's disease protein fibers
May 16, 2008 |
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Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shown, in unprecedented detail, how a small molecule is able to selectively take apart abnormally folded protein fibers connected to ...
Rochester's Omega Laser Receives 50-Fold Power Increase to Become 'Petawatt' Laser
May 16, 2008 |
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The University of Rochester will mark another important step in the effort toward attaining sustainable fusion, the ultimate source of clean energy, Friday, May 16.
HIV infection stems from few viruses
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
May 16, 2008 |
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A new study reveals the genetic identity of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the version responsible for sexual transmission, in unprecedented detail.
Weather, waves and wireless: Super strength signalling
May 16, 2008 |
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A new study from the University of Leicester has discovered a particular window of time when mobile signals and radio waves are ‘super strength’ – allowing them to be clearer and travel greater distances, potentially interfering ...
Scientists unveil new tool to understand evolution of multi-domain genes
Biology /
May 16, 2008 |
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Carnegie Mellon scientists have discovered critical flaws in the standard method used to analyze gene evolution. Standard methods fail when applied to genes that encode multi-domain proteins, an important class of proteins ...
Thirty-Meter Telescope Focuses on Two Candidate Sites
May 16, 2008 |
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After completing a worldwide survey unprecedented in rigor and detail of astronomical sites for the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT), the TMT Observatory Corporation board of directors has selected two outstanding sites, one ...
How Did That Chain Letter Get To My Inbox?
May 16, 2008 |
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Everyone who has an e-mail account has probably received a forwarded chain letter promising good luck if the message is forwarded on to others--or terrible misfortune if it isn't. The sheer volume of forwarded ...
Item! Candidates are buying your vote
May 16, 2008 |
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Mention the words “vote buying” and modern-day political villains Jack Abramoff and Tony Rezko probably come to mind, or perhaps special interest groups that donate to a politician’s campaign and expect support when relevant ...
Novel enzyme inhibitor paves way for new cancer drug
Biology /
May 16, 2008 |
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Combining natural organic atoms with metal complexes, scientists at The Wistar Institute have developed a new type of enzyme inhibitor capable of blocking a biochemical pathway that plays a key role in cancer development.
NIST tool helps Internet master top-level domains
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 16, 2008 |
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At the request of a worldwide Internet organization, a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology developed an algorithm that may guide applicants in proposing new “top-level domains”—the last ...
Entrepreneurs value 'ideas' over weatlh, study finds
May 16, 2008 |
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A study at the University of Liverpool has revealed that entrepreneurs are driven to start companies by their passion for ideas rather than the pursuit of wealth.
General practitioners filling the gap left by inadequate dental services, says doctor
May 16, 2008 |
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A shortage of NHS dentists means that general practitioners (GPs) have been left to do dentists’ work without adequate remuneration, argues a doctor in a letter in this week’s BMJ.
