Location: Tokyo, Japan
Einstein introduced general relativity in the early 20th century, and since
then it has been proven to be an accurate description of gravity beyond the
regime of validity of Newtonian gravitation. Since then, people have been
asking...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Lip reading is a critical means of communication for many deaf people, but it
has a drawback: Certain consonants (for example, p and b) can be nearly
impossible to distinguish by sight alone.
Tactile devices, which translate sound...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT engineers are using carbon nanotubes only billionths of a meter thick to
stitch together aerospace materials in work that could make airplane skins and
other products some 10 times stronger at a nominal increase in cost.
Moreover,...
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Location: California , United States
Roughly the size of a matchstick, a slender titanium tube could become a
pint-sized weapon against chronic hepatitis C and a host of other debilitating
diseases.
Three UCSF/UC Berkeley doctoral students are designing a tiny implantable...
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Location: Heidelberg, Germany
Researchers in Heidelberg discover new protein that is suppressed in
particularly aggressive cancer cell.
If cancer cells lack a certain protein, it could be much easier for them to
penetrate healthy body tissue, the first step...
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Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
A remarkable new invention from Tel Aviv University — a network of tiny
sensors as small as dewdrops called "Smart Dew" — will foil even the most
determined intruder. Scattered outdoors on rocks, fence posts and...
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Location: washington, United States
DNA evidence is in, newly discovered species of fish dubbed H.
psychedelica-A juvenile H. psychedelica hops along a coral
reef, its course even more precarious as it is buffeted by currents. Notice
how it curves its tail around to...
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
Despite medicine's inestimable progress over the past century, surgery can
still leave scars that look more appropriate to Frankenstein's monster than to
the beneficiary of a precise, modern operation. But in the Wellman Center for...
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Location: Wisconsin, United States
Looking at the site today, it’s easy to forget that a dam and pond stood for
43 years on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Franbrook Farm Research
Station in southwestern Wisconsin. All traces of the structure are gone, and...
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Every year, millions of people are diagnosed with cancer - a remarkably high
number. But what about the flipside of those statistics? That is, two out of
three people never get cancer, and more than half of heavy smokers don’t get...
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Location: London, United Kingdom
It may have been dreamt up in 1950, but the Turing test - a simple way to tell if a machine can think - still holds powerful sway over many researchers striving to produce a machine at least in some respects equal with a human.
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Location: Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Gecko feet have long been a source of inspiration to scientists striving to make superstrong, reusable adhesives. Now researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found a new way to make such an adhesive grip and release as
required, using...
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Location: Paris, France
Located in the range of infrared remote, between the mid-infrared and microwave, the waves so-called "terahertz" have the properties of both pass through the skin and clothing as paper, wood, cardboard or plastic. All of which mean that many...
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Location: National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States
Guest researcher John Jendzurski prepares the NIST electromagnetic phantom for passage through the walk-through metal detector behind it. The carbon-polymer blocks of the phantom are arranged in a form that simulates the mass and height of the...
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Location: Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, ,Kyoto UniversityJapan Tel: +81-75-753-7531, Japan
Many types of catechin in green tea called polyphenols that one group is
included. These types of catechin in green tea is very astringent component of
the antioxidant action of a lot of attention is being used in health foods.
Also,...
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Location: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, United States
Researchers at the
University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine discovered that the activity of a specific family of
nanometer-sized molecular motors called myosin-I...
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Location: College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, United States
Researchers at North Carolina
State University have found that quantum dot nanoparticles can penetrate the
skin if there is an abrasion, providing insight into potential workplace...
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Location: massachusetts, United States
Having found that whether bacteria stick to surfaces depends partly on how stiff those surfaces are, it has been created ultra thin films made of polymers that could be applied to medical devices and other surfaces to control microbe accumulation....
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Location: University of California - San Diego, United States
UC San Diego computer scientists have created a fog and smoke
machine for computer graphics that cuts the computational cost of making
realistic smoky and foggy 3-D images, such as beams of light from a lighthouse
piercing...
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Location: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
Looking for evidence of life on Mars or other planets?
Finding cellulose microfibers would be the next best thing to a close encounter,
according to new research from the ...
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