Visualising invisibility
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Invisibility has been an ingredient of myths, novels and films for millennia – from Perseus versus Medusa in Greek legend to James Bond’s latest car and Harry Potter’s cloak. A new study published today by the Institute of ...
Cool solution to waste disposal
Jul 31, 2006 |
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As the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) prepares to issue advice to government on nuclear waste, a group of physicists claims to have discovered a technique that could make nuclear waste much easier to deal ...
A simple survey yields a cosmic conundrum
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A survey of galaxies observed along the sightlines to quasars and gamma-ray bursts--both extremely luminous, distant objects--has revealed a puzzling inconsistency. Galaxies appear to be four times more common in the direction ...
University of Toronto ornithopter takes off
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Professor Emeritus James DeLaurier achieved something in early July that has fascinated humankind throughout much of history. DeLaurier and a team of students at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace ...
Scientists Test Anti-obesity Vaccine
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In what may be the first published breakthrough of its kind in the global battle against obesity, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have developed an anti-obesity vaccine that significantly slowed weight gain and ...
Colorado Programmer Develops New Black Hole Model
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Newmerix Corp. Web programmer and amateur physicist David Ring has developed a new model for evaporating black holes. He explains this model in his article “ A Linear Approximation to Black Hole Evaporation,” ...
Mars' dust storms may produce peroxide snow
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The planet-wide dust storms that periodically cloak Mars in a mantle of red may be generating a snow of corrosive chemicals, including hydrogen peroxide, that would be toxic to life, according to two new studies ...
Magnetic Nanocapsules for Smart Drug Delivery
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 31, 2006 |
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By combining peptide-based polymers with modified iron oxide nanoparticles, researchers at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Pessac, France, have developed nanoparticles that can be manipulated in a magnetic ...
Quicker, cleaner computers are in sight
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Imagine a computer instantly working when it was turned on because it didn't need power to reload its memory and get it working. Leeds physicists are leading a new £2.3m project to make new materials which would allow computer ...
HIV Hiding from Drugs in Gut, Preventing Immune Recovery
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UC Davis researchers have discovered that the human immunodeficiency virus, the virus that causes AIDS, is able to survive efforts to destroy it by hiding out in the mucosal tissues of the intestine. They also found that ...
Memory as Motivator
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What do we do with our memories when we don't have closure? In research conducted at the University of Arkansas, participants with still-open autobiographical memories were significantly more likely to meet assigned goals ...
What do a shark fin and a human leg have in common?
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One of the most important milestones in the evolution of life occurred when paired fins (and later limbs) appeared, leading to new types of locomotion. Now, in the advanced online issue of Nature, scientists ...
Keep watermelon out of the frig
Jul 31, 2006 |
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Government researchers in Washington advise against storing watermelon in the refrigerator if you want to maximize its health benefits.
Researchers develop blood test to detect lung cancer
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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for both men and women in the United States and around the world, mainly because lung cancers are found in late stages and the best treatment opportunities already have been ...
Virtual surgery software developed
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U.S. scientists say they've developed a "virtual surgery" software tool that creates a 3-D computer image from medical scans.
