Was Einstein Wrong about Space Travel?
Mar 22, 2006 |
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Consider a pair of brothers, identical twins. One gets a job as an astronaut and rockets into deep space. The other stays on Earth. When the traveling twin returns home, he discovers he's younger than his brother.
Organizing Gold Nanoparticles with DNA
Mar 22, 2006 |
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Tiny billionth-of-a-meter sized clusters of gold atoms — gold “nanoparticles” — are being widely studied by scientists. They have many useful potential applications, from carriers for cancer-treatment drugs to digital data ...
Making move toward vehicles that morph
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Mar 22, 2006 |
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Picture a bird, effortlessly adjusting its wings to catch every current of air. Airplanes that could do the same would have many advantages over today's flying machines, including increased fuel efficiency. ...
The Sun's New Exotic Neighbour
Mar 22, 2006 |
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Using ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, an international team of researchers discovered a brown dwarf belonging to the 24th closest stellar system to the Sun. Brown dwarfs are intermediate objects that are ...
Standing vigil for analog TV
Mar 22, 2006 |
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Run for the hills, Feb. 17, 2009, is the day of the apocalypse. This is the day that will affect almost every American household, as it's the drop-dead date for analog television to go the way of the dodo bird. ...
Cell barrier shows why bird flu not so easily spread among humans
Mar 22, 2006 |
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Although more than 100 people have been infected with the H5N1 avian influenza virus, mostly from close contact with infected poultry, the fact that the virus does not spread easily from its pioneering human ...
Relic of life in that Martian meteorite? A fresh look
Mar 22, 2006 |
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Since the mid-1990s a great debate has raged over whether organic compounds and tiny globules of carbonate minerals imbedded in the Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001 were processed by living creatures from ...
New lipid molecule holds promise for gene therapy
Mar 22, 2006 |
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Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara have created a new molecule that holds promise in fighting disease via gene therapy. Inherited diseases, as well as many cancers and cardiovascular ...
Researchers find 'switch' for brain's pleasure pathway
Mar 22, 2006 |
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Amid reports that a drug used to treat Parkinson's disease has caused some patients to become addicted to gambling and sex, University of Pittsburgh researchers have published a study that sheds light on what may have gone ...
Study: Plants can be divided into species
Mar 22, 2006 |
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Indiana University-Bloomington scientists say the theory that plants cannot be divided into species the same way as animals are identified is wrong.
Dot-xxx proposal under consideration
Mar 22, 2006 |
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While legislative pressure has been revived to create a dot-xxx Internet domain in order to better filter pornographic Web sites, some groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, think the idea would ...
Controlling optical binding creates trap for optical matter
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Mar 22, 2006 |
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Optical binding forces can be precisely controlled to realize a trap for self-organized optical matter, MIT researchers will report in an upcoming issue of Physical Review Letters.
Missing breast cancer genes may soon be discovered
Mar 22, 2006 |
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We are closer to finding the missing 80% of breast cancer genes than ever before thanks to the success of the COSMIC database (Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer) the 5th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-5) was ...
Analysis: Indian IT mart booming says NASSCOM IDC
Mar 22, 2006 |
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Information technology isn't simply a big export for the Indian economy. The surge in the domestic economy has meant that demand for IT services within India's own borders is becoming a money-spinner too, including multinationals ...
Britain boosts bumblebee battle
Mar 22, 2006 |
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British farmers are being paid about $350 a year to help save bumblebees from extinction by planting a clover mixture at the edges of their fields.
