News tagged with grand challenge
Turning DNA into a hard drive
Silicon-based computers are fine for typing term papers and surfing the Web, but scientists want to make devices that can work on a far smaller scale, recording data within individual cells. One way to do that is to create ...
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Shedding light on photosynthesis
(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine being able to monitor protein expression levels in a cell as they change over time and in response to external stimuli. That is just what researchers did when they studied the photosynthetic ...
Apr 04, 2012 |
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Antimatter sticks around
By successfully confining atoms of antihydrogen for an unprecedented 1,000 seconds, an international team of researchers called the ALPHA Collaboration has taken a step towards resolving one of the grand challenges ...
Sep 22, 2011 |
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Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges Explorations Rewards Bold Ideas
Even in troubled times, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recognize innovation for the betterment of mankind takes money. The Gates Foundation is providing $100,000 to 81 cutting edge health researcher ...
May 06, 2009 |
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How species evolve: Epilogue to 'On the Origin of Species'?
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the grand challenges in biology is to understand how species evolve. Today, more than 150 years after the publication of Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’, we still do not truly understand ...
Mar 09, 2012 |
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This smart wheelchair has laser vision
(PhysOrg.com) -- Disability, John Spletzer believes, should no longer pose any obstacle to mobility. A blind person may not be able to see or a paraplegic to walk, but each can access the technology available ...
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Challenges for biofuels -- new life cycle assessment report
(PhysOrg.com) -- A combination of rising costs, shrinking supplies, and concerns about global climate change are spurring the development of alternatives to the burning of fossil fuels to meet our transportation ...
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Feb 09, 2011 |
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Humanities researchers and digital technologies: Building infrastructures for a new age
Europe's leading scientists have pledged to embrace and expand the role of technology in the Humanities. In a Science Policy Briefing released today by the European Science Foundation (ESF), they argue that without Research ...
Nov 02, 2011 |
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