Searching for the soul in the machine
May 18, 2006 |
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If computers could create a society, what kind of world would they make? Thanks to the work of an ambitious project that adds a whole new meaning to the phrase, ‘computer society’, in which millions of software ...
New laser technique that strips hydrogen from silicon surfaces
May 18, 2006 |
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A team of researchers have achieved a long-sought scientific goal: using laser light to break specific molecular bonds. The process uses laser light, instead of heat, to strip hydrogen atoms from silicon surfaces, ...
Reinforced racquets and heated wallpaper
May 18, 2006 |
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Extremely conductive, stronger than steel and lighter than aluminum – these are only a few of the amazing properties of carbon nanotubes. An innovative method now enables the "miracle material" to be processed ...
New Super-Efficient Plug-in Hybrid Unveiled
May 18, 2006 |
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"Trinity," a highly fuel-efficient plug-in hybrid vehicle, was unveiled today by engineering students at the University of California, Davis. The vehicle is the team's entry in the national Challenge X competition, sponsored ...
Astronomers Use Innovative Technique to Find Extrasolar Planet
May 18, 2006 |
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An international team of professional and amateur astronomers, using simple off-the-shelf equipment to trawl the skies for planets outside our solar system, has hauled in its first "catch."
Heal thyself: Systems biology model reveals how cells avoid becoming cancerous
May 18, 2006 |
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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and three other institutions have described for the first time a web of inter-related responses that cells use to avoid becoming diseased or cancerous after being exposed ...
MAGIC discovers variable very high energy gamma-ray emission from a microquasar
May 18, 2006 |
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In a recent issue of Science, the Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) Telescope has reported the discovery of variable very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission from a microquasar. Microq ...
Clocking events at the nanoscale
May 18, 2006 |
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As scientists and engineers build devices at smaller and smaller scales, grasping the dynamics of how materials behave when they are subjected to electrical signals, sound and other manipulations has proven to be beyond the ...
Gold nanoparticles could improve antisense cancer drugs
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 18, 2006 |
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In the fight against cancer, antisense drugs, which prevent genes from producing harmful proteins such as those that cause cancer, have the promise to be more effective than conventional drugs, but the pace of development ...
Samsung to Unveil First Commercial Hybrid Hard Disk Prototype for Windows Vista
May 18, 2006 |
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Samsung Electronics today announced that it is exhibiting the first commercial prototype of a Hybrid Hard Disk (HHD), the much-anticipated next generation hard drive for notebooks and PCs that integrates NAND flash memory ...
'Extreme Physics' Observatory Prepares for Flight
May 18, 2006 |
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Scientists and engineers have completed assembly of the primary instrument for the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, a breakthrough orbiting observatory scheduled to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in ...
New century of thirst for world's mountains
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 18, 2006 |
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By the century's end, the Andes in South America will have less than half their current winter snowpack, mountain ranges in Europe and the U.S. West will have lost nearly half of their snow-bound water, and ...
Colombian frog believed extinct found alive
Biology /
May 18, 2006 |
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Researchers exploring a Colombian mountain range found surviving members of a species of Harlequin frog believed extinct due to a killer fungus wiping out amphibian populations in Central and South America.
Scientists find on-off cell switch in eye
May 18, 2006 |
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Boston scientists have discovered a blood vessel cell switch that controls vessel growth, opening the way for new drugs to combat eye problems.
Security company loses spat with spammers
May 18, 2006 |
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Spammers have forced anti-spam, anti-spyware company Blue Security to stop its spam war, according to a report in the Israeli business newspaper Globes.
