Scientists show quantum systems could flout physics law
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Scientists in the Weizmann Institute's Faculty of Chemistry, together with colleagues in Germany, have made a startling prediction: Simply 'taking the temperature' of certain quantum systems at frequent intervals might cause ...
New, flexible computers use displays with any shape
Jun 02, 2008 |
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The shape of things to come in the computer world will be anything but flat, predicts Queen's University Computing professor Roel Vertegaal, who is now developing prototypes of these new "non-planar" devices ...
New Fingerprint Breakthrough by Forensic Scientists
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Forensic scientists at the University of Leicester, working with Northamptonshire Police, have announced a major breakthrough in crime detection which could lead to hundreds of cold cases being reopened.
The good news in our DNA: Defects you can fix with vitamins and minerals
Jun 02, 2008 |
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As the cost of sequencing a single human genome drops rapidly, with one company predicting a price of $100 per person in five years, soon the only reason not to look at your "personal genome" will be fear of what bad news ...
Scientists find new 'quasiparticles'
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Weizmann Institute physicists have demonstrated, for the first time, the existence of 'quasiparticles' with one quarter the charge of an electron. This finding could be a first step toward creating exotic types of quantum ...
Nanotech process produces plastics that are 10 times more stretchable
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Move over, Rumplestiltskin. Researchers in China report the first successful “electrospinning” of a type of plastic widely used in automobiles and electronics. The high-tech process, which uses an electric ...
Phoenix Lander Leaves 'Footprints' on Mars
Space & Earth science / Space Exploration
Jun 02, 2008 |
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander reached out and touched the Martian soil for the first time on Saturday, May 31, the first step in a series of actions expected to bring soil and ice to the lander's experiments.
Newly discovered extrasolar planet is the smallest known and has smallest host star
Space & Earth science / Astronomy
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Astronomers have discovered an extrasolar planet only three times more massive than our own, the smallest yet observed orbiting a normal star. The star itself is not large, perhaps as little as one twentieth ...
Phoenix Scoops Up Martian Soil
Space & Earth science / Space Exploration
Jun 02, 2008 |
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One week after landing on far-northern Mars, NASA Phoenix spacecraft lifted its first scoop of Martian soil as a test of the lander's Robotic Arm.
Microrobots dance on something smaller than a pin's head
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Microscopic robots crafted to maneuver separately without any obvious guidance are now assembling into self-organized structures after years of continuing research led by a Duke University computer scientist.
