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DNA strands create tiniest Smileys

Harvard University scientists on Wednesday said they had created Smileys, Chinese characters and card-game symbols at scales of billionths of a metre using strands of DNA.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Multilingual web address system approved

The nonprofit body that oversees Internet addresses approved Friday the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not based on Latin characters in a decision that could make the Web dramatically more ...

Technology / Internet

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 7




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Probing Question: Is Latin valuable for today's students?

Yale University's famous motto is Lux et Veritas, Latin for "light and truth" while Princeton's crest reads Dei Sub Numine Viget ("Under God's power she flourishes"). The University of Pennsylvania based its cautionary ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 29, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 6

Chinese speakers get easier access to Internet

The web will soon be a lot more accessible for more than a billion people after the body that runs the Internet's naming system gave the green light for the use of Chinese script.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 6

One Laptop Per Child's next move: the $100 tablet

(AP) -- The nonprofit organization that has tried for years to produce a sub-$100 laptop for children in the world's poorest places is throwing in the towel on that idea - and jumping on the tablet bandwagon.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Panel recommends standardizing prescription container labeling

To promote the establishment of universal standards for prescription medication labels—and to address the widespread problem of patient misinterpretation of medication instructions—an advisory panel formed by the U.S. Pharmacopeial ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 10, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Internet agency approves domains in native scripts

(AP) -- Four countries and two territories have won preliminary approval to have Internet addresses written entirely in their native scripts as early as this summer.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 24, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

4 countries clear hurdle for non-Latin Web names

(AP) -- Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first countries to win preliminary approval for Internet addresses written entirely in their native scripts.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Internet set for change with non-English addresses

(AP) -- The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history with the expected approval this week of international domain names - or addresses - that can be written in languages ...

Technology / Internet

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 31

Remembering the future

As electronics designers cram more and more components onto each chip, current technologies for making random-access memory (RAM) are running out of room. European researchers have a strong position in a new ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 15, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0


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