Archive: 01/08/2007
Science funds come up short for 2007
After Congress failed to pass new budgets for the current fiscal year, scientific institutions across the United States could suffer setbacks.
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Internet under attack by zombie computers
Computer code writers in Europe are the chief suspects in the creation of programs that turn other computers into zombie-like slaves for Internet crimes.
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Toward a new oral delivery system for insulin using nanoshell shields
Scientists in Taiwan are reporting development of a nanoparticle drug delivery system that shows promise as a potential way to administer insulin and perhaps other protein-based drugs by mouth rather than injection or nasal ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 08, 2007 |
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The first molecular keypad lock
How can defense or intelligence agencies safeguard the security of top-secret data protected by a computation device the size of a single molecule?
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Hybrid Structures Combine Strengths of Carbon Nanotubes and Nanowires
A team of researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created hybrid structures that combine the best properties of carbon nanotubes and metal nanowires. The new structures, which are described in a ...
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Scientists find guardian gene's choices crucial to stopping cancer process
Scientists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia have uncovered a novel pathway by which the anti-cancer gene p53 springs into action, protecting a damaged cell from becoming cancer. The ...
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Physicists transmit visible light through miniature cable
Physicists at Boston College have beamed visible light through a cable hundreds of times smaller than a human hair, an achievement they anticipate will lead to advances in solar power and optical computing.
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Finding Memory in Nonlinear Ionization
David Rayner and his colleagues at the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada in Ottawa have shown that when transparent solids, such as glass, are ionized with short intense laser pulses the material is subtly changed.
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Gas giants jump into planet formation early
Gas-giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn form soon after their stars do, according to new research.
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Hubble Observations Provide Insight into Planet Birth
Hubble observed a "blizzard" of particles in a disk around a young star, revealing the process by which planets grow from tiny dust grains. The particles are as fluffy as snowflakes and are roughly ten times ...
Jan 08, 2007 |
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System X Used to Model Behavior of Entire Structures
Elisa Sotelino, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, has developed a family of parallel algorithms, named Group Implicit Algorithms, which have had a major impact in the nonlinear ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Rapid, Low-Cost DNA Testing
Professor Lewis Rothberg of the University of Rochester Chemistry Department received a NYSTAR grant in August 2006 to continue working on a recent discovery by Huixiang Li, a research associate in his group: how to rapidly ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Astronomers discover an enormous halo of red giant stars around Andromeda
Astronomers have found an enormous halo of stars bound to the Andromeda galaxy and extending far beyond the swirling disk seen in images of the famous galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbor. The discovery, reported at ...
Jan 08, 2007 |
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