Electronic tattoo display runs on blood
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 21, 2008 |
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Jim Mielke's wireless blood-fueled display is a true merging of technology and body art. At the recent Greener Gadgets Design Competition, the engineer demonstrated a subcutaneously implanted touch-screen ...
Attack on computer memory reveals vulnerability of widely-used security systems
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 21, 2008 |
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A team of academic, industry and independent researchers has demonstrated a new class of computer attacks that compromise the contents of “secure” memory systems, particularly in laptops.
Astronomers discover largest-ever dark matter structures spanning 270M light-years
Feb 21, 2008 |
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A University of British Columbia astronomer with an international team has discovered the largest structures of dark matter ever seen. Measuring 270 million light-years across, these dark matter structures criss-cross the ...
Scientists First To Measure Force Required To Move Individual Atoms
Feb 21, 2008 |
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IBM scientists, in collaboration with the University of Regensburg in Germany, are the first ever to measure the force it takes to move individual atoms on a surface. This fundamental measurement provides ...
Journey to the center of the Earth -- Scientists explain tectonic plate motions
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 21, 2008 |
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The first direct evidence of how and when tectonic plates move into the deepest reaches of the Earth is published in Nature today. Scientists hope their description of how plates collide with one sliding below ...
NVIDIA Reveals First Next-Generation GeForce 9 Series GPU
Feb 21, 2008 |
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NVIDIA Corporation has unveiled the first graphics processing unit (GPU) of its next-generation GeForce 9 Series that may offer the largest single-generation performance jump in the Company’s history. Introduced ...
Powerful explosions suggest neutron star missing link
Feb 21, 2008 |
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Observations from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) have revealed that the youngest known pulsing neutron star has thrown a temper tantrum. The collapsed star occasionally unleashes powerful bursts ...
1 million trillion 'flops' per second targeted by new Institute for Advanced Architectures
Feb 21, 2008 |
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Preparing groundwork for an exascale computer is the mission of the new Institute for Advanced Architectures, launched jointly at Sandia and Oak Ridge national laboratories.
Researchers investigate mass bat deaths
Biology /
Feb 21, 2008 |
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First it was bees that were mysteriously dying. Now it's bats.
The light and dark of Venus
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 21, 2008 |
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Venus Express has revealed a planet of extraordinarily changeable and extremely large-scale weather. Bright hazes appear in a matter of days, reaching from the south pole to the low southern latitudes and ...
Analogue logic for quantum computing
Feb 21, 2008 |
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Digital logic, or bits, is the only paradigm for the IT world, and up to now researchers used it almost exclusively to study quantum information processing. But European scientists, in a series of firsts, have proved that ...
Another way to grow blood vessels
Feb 21, 2008 |
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Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have found a previously unknown molecular pathway in mice that spurs the growth of new blood vessels when body parts are jeopardized by poor circulation.
Safer and more effective way to treat Crohn's disease
Feb 21, 2008 |
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An international research study, published in The Lancet, has thrown into question the current method of treating Crohn’s disease – opening the door to a safer and more effective treatment option for sufferers of the chroni ...
'Two-Faced' Particles Act Like Tiny Submarines
Feb 21, 2008 |
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For the first time, researchers at North Carolina State University have demonstrated that microscopic "two-faced" spheres whose halves are physically or chemically different – so-called Janus particles – will ...
Novel link between excessive nutrient levels and insulin resistance
Feb 21, 2008 |
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For quite some time now, scientists suspected the so-called hexosamine pathway — a small side business of the main sugar processing enterprise inside a cell — to be involved in the development of insulin resistance. But they ...
