A new technique for assessing the damage radiation causes to DNA indicates that the spatial arrangement of damaged sites, or lesions, is more important than the number of lesions in determining the severity of the damage. ...
Mar 21, 2008
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As growing demand for clean water stretches even the resources of the world's largest industrialized nations, scientists and engineers are turning to new technology and novel ideas to find solutions.
Environment
Mar 21, 2008
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MIT scientists are designing a satellite-based observatory that they say could for the first time provide a sensitive survey of the entire sky to search for planets outside the solar system that appear to cross in front of ...
Space Exploration
Mar 21, 2008
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Designers of artificial cognitive systems have tended to adopt one of two approaches to building robots that can think for themselves: classical rule-based artificial intelligence or artificial neural networks. Both have ...
Engineering
Mar 21, 2008
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Among the approximately 23,000 genes found in human DNA, scientists currently estimate that there may be as few as 50 to 100 that have no counterparts in other species. Expand that comparison to include the primate family ...
Mar 21, 2008
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Scientists in Scotland said they've found a way to cut greenhouse gas emissions by curbing cow and sheep flatulence.
Environment
Mar 21, 2008
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An international team led by China has installed an automated space observatory at Dome Argus, the highest point on the South Pole.
Earth Sciences
Mar 21, 2008
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Several California communities are banning recreational boats on inland waterways to keep out invasive quagga mussels.
Mar 21, 2008
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The information-storage market is dominated by two main types: Flash memory, used in memory sticks and cell phones, and dynamic random access memory (DRAM), which is the main memory in a personal computer. Both types have ...
New technology at Tufts University's Center for Scientific Visualization is enabling researchers to translate the most abstract, complex scientific concepts into clearer, more precise 3-dimensional images than conventional ...
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