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'Synthetic Biology' Holds Promise, But Vigilance Needed
Far more promise than peril lurks in "synthetic biology," the emerging technology of man-made life, a presidential panel reports yesterday.
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Computer Spin Memory: Physicists Read Data Stored in Atomic Nuclei
University of Utah physicists stored data for 112 seconds in the "spins" of atomic nuclei. Their work is a step toward using spin memory for faster conventional...
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An Exhibition That Gets to the (square) Root of Sumerian Math
Papyrus, parchment, paper ... videotape, DVDs, Blu-ray discs—long after all these materials have crumbled to dust, the first recording medium of all, the cuneiform...
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Wireless at the Speed of Plasma
A new type of antenna could dramatically change high-speed wireless communications, miniature radar, and energy weapons. The antenna consists of thousands of diodes...
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UCLA Receives $5.5m For Work on High-Speed, High-Capacity Memory
UCLA researchers recently received a $5.5 million U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grant to continue developing technology that could lead to low-power...
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Single Quantum Dot Nanowire Photodetectors
Moving a step closer toward quantum computing, a research team in the Netherlands recently fabricated a photodetector based on a single nanowire, in which the...
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NASA Probe Sees Solar Wind Decline
The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind.
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A Lego Reconstruction of the World's Earliest Computer
Before the birth of Christ the Greeks built a mechanical computer. Now an Apple engineer has made a functional Lego replica.
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Ucsf Team Develops 'logic Gates' to Program Bacteria as Computers
University of California, San Francisco researchers have genetically engineered E. coli bacteria with a specific molecular circuitry that will enable scientists...
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Collective Memory
An MIT project provides a way to preserve information in constantly changing networks, without resorting to a shared server.
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Next Generation of Algorithms Inspired By Problem-Solving Ants
An ant colony is the last place you'd expect to find a maths whiz, but University of Sydney researchers have shown that the humble ant is capable of solving difficult...
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Diminishing Returns?: U.s. Science Productivity Continues to Drop
A historic downward shift in U.S. research efficiency is described in a new report on science publication trends, showing that while funding rose, the quantity...
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"this Paper Should Not Have Been Published"
Scientists see fatal flaws in the NASA study of arsenic-based life.
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Tiny Laser Light Show Illuminates Quantum Computing
With similarities to the light-show projectors used at planetariums, a new laser-beam steering system that aims and focuses bursts of light onto single atoms for...
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Researchers Continue Search For Elusive New Particles at Cern
Texas Tech University researchers' recently published results are the first of the "new physics" research papers produced from the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment...
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NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical
NASA-funded astrobiology research has changed the fundamental knowledge about what comprises all known life on Earth.
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Nasa Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery
NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial...
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Nano-Diamond Qubits and Photonic Crystals
Researchers in Germany have successfully fabricated a rudimentary quantum computing hybrid system that may allow integration of multi-qubit systems on a single...
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New IBM Architecture Doubles Analytics Processing Speed
IBM recently revealed details about a new storage architecture design that it says can double analytics processing speed. IBM says the architecture can convert...
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