Archive: 10/19/2006
First demonstration of a working invisibility cloak
A team led by scientists at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has demonstrated the first working "invisibility cloak." The cloak deflects microwave beams so they flow around a "hidden" object inside ...
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Metabolic disorder underlies Huntington's disease
A metabolic disorder underlies the brain effects found in those with Huntington's disease, researchers report in an advance article publishing online October 19, 2006. The article will appear in the November 2006 issue of ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 19, 2006 |
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Scientists identify switch for brain's natural anti-oxidant defense
Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report they have found how the brain turns on a system designed to protect its nerve cells from toxic "free radicals," a waste product of cell metabolism that has been implicated ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 19, 2006 |
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Genetic repair mechanism clears the way for sealing DNA breaks
Scientists investigating an important DNA-repair enzyme now have a better picture of the final steps of a process that glues together, or ligates, the ends of DNA strands to restore the double helix.
Biology /
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The star, the dwarf and the planet
Astronomers have detected a new faint companion to the star HD 3651, already known to host a planet. This companion, a brown dwarf, is the faintest known companion of an exoplanet host star imaged directly ...
Oct 19, 2006 |
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Professor scoops top prize for 2D atomic crystals discovery
Professor Andre Geim of the School of Physics and Astronomy has been awarded the 2007 Mott Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics for his ground-breaking work. The research of Professor Geim, Dr Kostya Novoselov and ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 19, 2006 |
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Fusion in the fast lane
Using fast digital imaging, scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany, together with researchers from College de France, have succeeded in developing two different ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 19, 2006 |
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Decoding Mars's cryptic region
Mars Express's OMEGA instrument has given planetary scientists outstanding new clues to help solve the mystery of Mars's so-called 'cryptic region'.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 19, 2006 |
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NASA approves construction of satellite to scan galaxies
After eight years of study, NASA has approved the construction of an unmanned satellite that will scan the entire sky in infrared light to reveal nearby cool stars, planetary "construction zones" and the brightest galaxies ...
Oct 19, 2006 |
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Expect a warmer, wetter world this century, computer models agree
Recent episodes of deadly heat in the United States and Europe, long dry spells across the U.S. West, and heavy bursts of rain and snow across much of North America and Eurasia hint at longer-term changes to come, according ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 19, 2006 |
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Classical cryptography system uses giant lasers to boost security
It's been more than 20 years since quantum cryptography systems have been developed, taking over communication security from classical cryptography systems--the kind that used extremely difficult mathematical ...
Oct 19, 2006 |
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Fossil fish fills evolutionary gap
The discovery of a perfectly preserved fish fossil by Australian researchers has added further weight to the theory that ancient four-legged animals (tetrapods) may have first moved onto the land in Australia, ...
Biology /
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