Archive: 02/19/2007
A new process for making much-sought iron nanospheres
Using a process that creates bubbles as hot as the surface of the sun, chemists are reporting development of a new method for making hollow hematite (iron oxide) nanospheres. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's ...
Feb 19, 2007 |
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Green chemistry can help nanotechnology mature, professor says
“Around the world, there is a growing urgency about nanotechnology and its possible health and environmental impacts,” Hutchison said in his talk Sunday during a workshop at the annual meeting of the American Association ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 19, 2007 |
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RNAi shows promise in gene therapy, researcher says
Three years ago Mark Kay, MD, PhD, published the first results showing that a biological phenomenon called RNA interference could be an effective gene therapy technique. Since then he has used RNAi gene therapy to effectively ...
Feb 19, 2007 |
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Long-lived deep-sea fishes imperiled by technology, overfishing
Many commercially prized fish from the depths of the world's oceans are severely threatened by over-fishing and the species' ability to recover is constrained by the fishes' long lifespans and low reproductive success, a ...
Biology /
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Optical holography makes information simpler to secure, more difficult to decrypt
As business done over the Internet is becoming almost conventional these days—more banks becoming virtual, more companies going global—information security is something most people take for granted on a daily ...
Feb 19, 2007 |
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Cancer cells more likely to genetically mutate
When cells become cancerous, they also become 100 times more likely to genetically mutate than regular cells, researchers have found. The findings may explain why cells in a tumor have so many genetic mutations, but could ...
Feb 19, 2007 |
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Universe offers 'eternal feast,' cosmologist says
There is no such thing as a free lunch, some say, but they would be wrong. In fact, the entirety of the universe defies them. According to Stanford physics Professor Andrei Linde, one of the architects of the inflationary ...
Feb 19, 2007 |
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Tobacco companies obstructed science, history professor says
"Doubt is our product," stated a tobacco industry memo from 1969. For half a century, the tobacco industry tried to muddy the link between smoking and cancer. Now, with that effort long since failed, cigarette producers facing ...
Feb 19, 2007 |
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Scientific literacy happens -- when students think for themselves
Give college students less instruction and more freedom to think for themselves in laboratory classes, and the result may be a four-fold increase in their test scores.
Feb 19, 2007 |
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