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Hip-Hop Basslines Could Power Implantable Medical Devices

Posted on January 30, 2012 by admin

Jazz is not as effective Your favorite hip-hop artist could save a life someday – or at least control a person’s bladder – through the power of heavy bass beats, according to new research. Continue reading →

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Borderworld: How the U.S. Is Reengineering Homeland Security

Posted on January 17, 2012 by admin

The Crossing The Zaragoza-Ysleta International Bridge in El Paso, Texas, is one of the 300 ports of entry where customs officials inspect the more than 350 million travelers and 100 million vehicles, trains and aircraft entering and exiting the U.S. Continue reading →

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The World’s Smallest Stirling Engine is a Single Particle, Just Three Micrometers Across

Posted on December 12, 2011 by admin

The World’s Smallest Stirling Engine Fritz Höffeler / Art For Science via Science Daily At the University of Stuttgart and the nearby Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, researchers are taking the notion of smaller, more compact engines to a micro-machinery extreme. Continue reading →

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International Scientists Race to Create the Heaviest Element in the Universe

Posted on November 18, 2011 by admin

Jon Petter Omtvedt Yngve Vogt/Apollon-UiO Two international teams are competing to create the heaviest element in the universe. Continue reading →

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New Material Promises Faster Chips, Faster Internet, Faster Everything

Posted on November 17, 2011 by admin

We’ve constructed a world out of fiber optic cable and silicon, but Arizona State University researchers think their new material can do better. Continue reading →

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New Material Promises Faster Chips, Faster Internet, Faster Everything

Posted on November 17, 2011 by admin

We’ve constructed a world out of fiber optic cable and silicon, but Arizona State University researchers think their new material can do better. Continue reading →

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Mathematicians Take on East LA Gangs With Crime-Solving Algorithm

Posted on November 2, 2011 by admin

Nerd Gang Joshin Yamada In high-crime, gang-controlled areas like Los Angeles’s Hollenbeck Division (which includes the neighborhoods of Boyle Heights, Lincoln Heights, and El Sereno), it can be difficult to figure out even the most basic info about gang violence. Continue reading →

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Structural Self-Replication Based on DNA Could Create New Materials

Posted on October 17, 2011 by admin

Self-Replicating Motif Inspired by DNA replication rules, tile motifs recognize and bind to complementary tiles to form a new, unique sequence. Continue reading →

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Scientists Successfully Induce Hibernation in Animals for the First Time

Posted on September 22, 2011 by admin

Arctic Ground Squirrel Wikimedia Commons: Alan Vernon Then they wake them up again Scientists at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks have successfully caused a group of arctic ground squirrels, naturally hibernating animals, to wake from and then go back into hibernation. Continue reading →

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