Mars Joins The Perseid Meteor Shower For A Beautiful Display On August 12th.
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Got a calendar? Circle this date: Friday, August 12th. Next to the circle write "before sunrise" and "Meteors!" Attach all of the above to your refrigerator in plain view so you won't miss the 2005 Perseid meteor shower. ...
Using Nanoparticles, In Vivo Gene Therapy Activates Brain Stem Cells
Jul 26, 2005 |
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Using customized nanoparticles that they developed, University at Buffalo scientists have for the first time delivered genes into the brains of living mice with an efficiency that is similar to, or better than, viral vectors ...
U.S. and Australia OK secret climate pact
Jul 26, 2005 |
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Australia has reportedly joined the United States, China, India and South Korea in signing a secret agreement concerning greenhouse emissions.
Physicists Entangle Photon and Atom in Atomic Cloud
Jul 26, 2005 |
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Quantum communication networks show great promise in becoming a highly secure communications system. By carrying information with photons or atoms, which are entangled so that the behavior of one affects the ...
Helyxzion Software Poised to Unlock the Code Obscuring the Elusive Mysteries of Human Life
Jul 26, 2005 |
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Revolutionary new bioinformatics-based viewer, developed by Helyxzion, allows scientists much greater control over scope of DNA analysis. With scale no longer an issue, scientists have tool to dramatically advance genetic ...
Cassini Finds Recent and Unusual Geology on Enceladus
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has obtained new, detailed images of the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The data reveal distinctive geological features and the most youthful terrain seen on the moon. These findings ...
Japan to develop fastest supercomputer
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Japan will develop a next-generation supercomputer, some 73 times faster than today's record-holder.
A Field Of Beams
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By firing rapid pulses of polarized light at corn, spinach and other crops, researchers have uncovered a picture of plant health that is invisible to the naked eye. Using a portable light source and detector technology, the ...
China mobile makers plot summer strategy
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The dog days of summer may be the slow season for cell-phone sales, but Chinese handset makers are launching plans to halt their sliding market share.Companies including Amoi, Ningbo Bird, Dopod and Konka all have drafted ...
Deep thinking: Scientists sequence a cold-loving marine microbe
Jul 26, 2005 |
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At home in the deep, dark Arctic Ocean, the marine bacterium Colwellia psychrerythraea 34H keeps very cool--typically below 5° degrees Celsius. How does the bacterium function in this frigid environment? To find out, scientists ...
SAMSUNG Launches Satellite DMB Phone that Slides and Rotates
Jul 26, 2005 |
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Samsung Electronics announced the launch of its latest satellite DMB phone (model number: SCH-B200/SPH-B2000) with a unique “slide and rotate” form factor. Samsung’s B200, which was first unveiled at MIPTV/MILIA ...
Canadian scientists test 'Bigfoot' hairs
Jul 26, 2005 |
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Scientists expect DNA test results this week from a tuft of hair that residents of Teslin, Yukon Territory, Canada, say come from a sasquatch, or Bigfoot.
Mobile phones boost global telcom profits
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South Korea is one of the most wired countries in the world, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, boasting the world's highest number of broadband subscribers, as well as one of the highest ...
NEAR Mission Images Give Clues To Composition Of Asteroid Eros
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An asteroid's external features, when analyzed carefully, can say a lot about its interior. So it was while he was mapping the surface of the asteroid 433 Eros that Peter Thomas, a senior research associate in astronomy at ...
Blinking switches off parts of your brain
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Blinking temporarily switches off parts of your brain, according to a study published in the latest issue of Current Biology. The University College London (UCL) team found that the brain actively shuts down parts of the ...
