Scientists interpret physics behind invisibility cloaks
Aug 22, 2007 |
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Is a perfect invisible cloak theoretically possible? Are there certain wavelengths—such as those in the visible spectrum—that can’t be made invisible? How will using imperfect materials affect the performance ...
Engineers construct 220 million pixel computer display
Aug 22, 2007 |
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Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have constructed the highest-resolution computer display in the world – with a screen resolution up to 220 million pixels.
Google Sky Turns Computer Into Telescope
Aug 22, 2007 |
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Imagine cruising the heavens from your desktop and seeing all the spectacular images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Exploding stars and faraway galaxies are just a mouse click away through Sky in Google ...
D-Cinema -- coming soon to this movie theater
Aug 22, 2007 |
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Digital films of outstanding picture quality are set to attract movie fans back to the cinema. At the International Broadcast Convention IBC in Amsterdam on September 7-11, Fraunhofer research scientists are presenting important ...
Study sheds new light on intimate lives of older Americans
Aug 22, 2007 |
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The first comprehensive, nationally representative survey on the prevalence of sexual activity among older Americans provides a portrait of the intimate lives of people ages 57 to 85.
Folate mystery finally solved
Aug 22, 2007 |
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Some biochemical processes, especially those in bacteria, have been so well studied it’s assumed that no discoveries are left to be made. Not so, it turns out, for Johns Hopkins researchers who have stumbled ...
Nanotweezers Unlock Anticancer Drug Secrets
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Aug 22, 2007 |
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The annoying bulges of an overwound telephone cord that shorten its reach and limit a caller’s motion help explain why drugs called camptothecins are so effective in killing cancer cells, according to investigators led by ...
Gene triggers obsessive compulsive disorder-like syndrome in mice
Aug 22, 2007 |
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Using genetic engineering, researchers have created an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) - like set of behaviors in mice and reversed them with antidepressants and genetic targeting of a key brain circuit. ...
Researchers look at fossil fuel impacts
Aug 22, 2007 |
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A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers report that the choices U.S. officials make today could limit how the nation’s future energy needs are met and could cost consumers billions in idle power plants and associated ...
Six-tonne T. rex quicker than Becks, say scientists
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Aug 22, 2007 |
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T. rex may have struggled to chase down speeding vehicles as the movie Jurassic Park would have us believe but the world’s most fearsome carnivore was certainly no slouch, research out today suggests.
Scientists find clue to mechanisms of gene signaling and regulation
Aug 22, 2007 |
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Scientists have discovered a pattern in the DNA sequence of the mouse genome that may play a fundamental part in the way DNA molecules regulate gene expression. The research, led by Emory University scientists along with ...
Nanotubes Enable New Approach to Cancer Radiotherapy
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Aug 22, 2007 |
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Radioactive elements, or radionuclides, are well-established anticancer agents whose main limitation is that they kill healthy cells almost as easily as they do tumors. But because nanoparticles can be targeted to tumors, ...
Using life's building blocks to control nanoparticle assembly
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Aug 22, 2007 |
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Using DNA, the molecule that carries life’s genetic instructions, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory are studying how to control both the speed of nanoparticle assembly and the structure ...
Hinode helps unravel long-standing solar mysteries
Aug 22, 2007 |
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A year after launch, scientists working with Hinode, a Japanese mission with ESA participation, are meeting at Trinity College, Dublin, to discuss latest findings on solar mysteries - including new insights ...
Shuttle brings space-grown strep bacteria back for study
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Aug 22, 2007 |
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When the space shuttle Endeavour touched down at the Kennedy Space Center August 21, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston microbiology and immunology department chairman David Niesel was waiting by the runway, ...
