A mighty number falls
May 21, 2007 |
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Mathematicians and number buffs have their records. And today, an international team has broken a long-standing one in an impressive feat of calculation.
In a first, scientists develop tiny implantable biocomputers
Biology /
May 21, 2007 |
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Researchers at Harvard University and Princeton University have made a crucial step toward building biological computers, tiny implantable devices that can monitor the activities and characteristics of human ...
Spirit Unearths Surprise Evidence of Wetter Past
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 21, 2007 |
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A patch of Martian soil analyzed by NASA's rover Spirit is so rich in silica that it may provide some of the strongest evidence yet that ancient Mars was much wetter than it is now. The processes that could ...
Nanomedicine opens the way for nerve cell regeneration
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 21, 2007 |
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The ability to regenerate nerve cells in the body could reduce the effects of trauma and disease in a dramatic way. In two presentations at the NSTI Nanotech 2007 Conference, researchers describe the use of nanotechnology ...
Inverse Woodpile Structure Has Extremely Large Photonic Band Gap
May 21, 2007 |
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As many homeowners know, when stacking firewood, pieces should be placed close enough to permit passage of a mouse, but not of a cat chasing the mouse.
Testing the Equivalence Principle
May 21, 2007 |
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Standing on the Moon in 1971, Apollo 15 astronaut Dave Scott held his hands out at shoulder height, a hammer in one hand and a feather in the other. And as the world looked on via live television, he let go.
IBM Unleashes World's Fastest Chip in Powerful New Computer
May 21, 2007 |
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IBM today simultaneously launched the fastest microprocessor ever built and an ultra-powerful new computer server that leverages the chip’s many breakthroughs in energy conservation and virtualization technology. The new ...
Yoga and elevated brain GABA levels
May 21, 2007 |
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Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and McLean Hospital have found that practicing yoga may elevate brain gamma-aminobutyric (GABA) levels, the brain's primary inhibitory neurotransmitter. The findings, ...
CMU professor honored for computational complexity breakthrough
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 21, 2007 |
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Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and the Russian Academy of Science will share the Association for Computing Machinery's 2007 Gödel Prize for their seminal work on what many consider the most important unresolved ...
Researchers awaken vision cells in blind mice
May 21, 2007 |
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University of Florida researchers used gene therapy to restore sight in mice with a form of hereditary blindness, a finding that has bearing on many of the most common blinding diseases.
Breathtaking views of Deuteronilus Mensae on Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 21, 2007 |
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The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express has captured breathtaking images of the Deuteronilus Mensae region on Mars.
New Discovery Could Lead to Better Plastics
May 21, 2007 |
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In the late 1960s, the memorable advice given to a certain graduate of movie fame was to go into plastics. Forty years later, Caltech chemical engineering professor Julia Kornfield would like to add the word "shish-kebabs."
Oceanic Storms Create Oases in the Watery Desert
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 21, 2007 |
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For two decades, scientists have puzzled over why vast blooms of microscopic plant life grow in the middle of otherwise barren mid-ocean regions. Now a research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ...
Alarming acceleration in CO2 emissions worldwide
May 21, 2007 |
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Between 2000 and 2004, worldwide CO2 emissions increased at a rate that is over three times the rate during the 1990s—the rate increased from 1.1 % per year during the 1990s to 3.1% per year in the early 2000s.
Computing Grid Helps Get to the Heart of Matter
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 21, 2007 |
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In November, when physicists at CERN in Switzerland begin their grand experiment using the world's largest particle accelerator—the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC—computer scientists there and across the globe will also put ...
