Toward Building Molecular Computers
Jan 24, 2007 |
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Don't throw away your laptop yet, but there's a promising new high-tech invention being announced this week. Researchers have created a memory circuit the size of a white blood cell that has enough capacity ...
Reactivated gene shrinks tumors
Jan 24, 2007 |
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Many cancers arise due to defects in genes that normally suppress tumor growth. Now, for the first time, MIT researchers have shown that re-activating one of those genes in mice can cause tumors to shrink or ...
The jet stream of Titan
Jan 24, 2007 |
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A pair of rare celestial alignments that occurred in November 2003 helped an international team of astronomers investigate the far-off world of Titan. In particular, the alignments helped validate the atmospheric ...
New technique for easily identifying explosives in luggage
Jan 24, 2007 |
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Scientists in Japan have developed a new technique for sensing explosives in luggage and landmines. The paper, published today in the Institute of Physics journal Superconductor Science and Technology descri ...
Corot sees first light
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 24, 2007 |
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In the night between 17 and 18 January 2007, the protective cover of the COROT telescope has been successfully opened, and COROT has seen for the first time light coming from stars.
Study provides first genetic evidence of long-lived African presence within Britain
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Jan 24, 2007 |
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New research has identified the first genetic evidence of Africans having lived amongst "indigenous" British people for centuries. Their descendants, living across the UK today, were unaware of their black ancestry.
UA researchers first to complete the human metabalome
Jan 24, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada, have announced the completion of the first draft of the human metabolome, the chemical equivalent of the human genome.
Silicon medicines may be effective in humans
Jan 24, 2007 |
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As carbon-based life forms, humans and other animals, invariably, are treated for disease with the help of carbon-based medicines. But now, in a promising new study, scientists have shown that silicon — the stuff of computer ...
How fishes conquered the ocean
Biology /
Jan 24, 2007 |
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Scientists at the University of Bergen, Norway have deduced how bony fishes conquered the oceans by duplicating their yolk-producing genes and filling their eggs with the water of life – the degradation of yolk proteins from ...
New approach to science education proposed
Jan 24, 2007 |
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A world-renowned U.S. scientist says he is plotting a revolution -- a revolution in the way children around the world are taught science.
New nanotechnology able to examine single molecules, aiding in determining gene expression
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 24, 2007 |
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A new nanotechnology that can examine single molecules in order to determine gene expression, paving the way for scientists to more accurately examine single cancer cells, has been developed by an interdisciplinary team of ...
The time it takes to reassemble the world
Jan 24, 2007 |
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A few glimpses are enough to perceive a seamless and richly detailed visual world. But instead of "photographic snapshots”, information about the color, shape and motion of an object is pulled apart and sent ...
SanDisk, Toshiba to Launch 56-Nanometer, 16-Gigabit High-Performance NAND Flash Memory
Jan 24, 2007 |
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SanDisk today announced that it expects to see the launch of the next generation of NAND flash memory this quarter as it begins the transition from 70 nanometer (nm) to 56nm multi-level cell (MLC) flash memory chips at Fab ...
Be afraid, be very afraid, if you learned to
Jan 24, 2007 |
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A new study on rats has identified a part of the brain's cortex that controls learned but not innate fear responses.
Mud volcano in Java may continue to erupt for months and possibly years
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 24, 2007 |
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The first scientific report into the causes and impact of Lusi, the Indonesian mud volcano, reveals that the 2006 eruption will continue to erupt and spew out between 7,000 and 150,000 cubic metres of mud a day for months, ...
