 How to find a black hole October 20, 2005 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Black holes. Just the name evokes mystery and intrigue. But do they really exist?
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Study Shows Silver Nanoparticles Attach to HIV-1 virus October 14, 2005 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 158 vote(s)
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In the first-ever study of metal nanoparticles' interaction with HIV-1, silver nanoparticles of sizes 1-10nm attached to HIV-1 and prevented the virus from bonding to host cells. The study, published in the Journal of ... | |
NanoWorld: Nature Inspired Micro Circuits October 13, 2005 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A team of chemical engineers, biologists, geneticists, and electronic engineers headed by Kenneth Sandhage at the Georgia Institute of Technology and colleagues has developed a new process for converting the finely detailed ... | |
Unlocking the organic composition of ancient asteroids October 07, 2005 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
New technology discovers primitive organic matter in 4.5 billion year old meteorites
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Machines making other machines: new twist on self-replication October 03, 2005 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
How can we best build self-replicating machines? The past few decades have witnessed self-replicating virtual automata, ranging from the benign Game of Life by Conway to malicious computer viruses. Self-replicating physical ... | |
Analysis: China's futile Web clampdown September 26, 2005 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
An axiom of Communist China's founder Mao Zedong goes, "a single spark can start a prairie fire." Today, the country's leaders fear this is only an Internet click away. | |
Nano radios for microchips September 15, 2005 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Radios the size of bacteria employing nano-magnets could help microchips wirelessly communicate with one another, experts told UPI's Nano World. | |
 Drilling on Mars to find evidence of ancient organisms: a second genesis of life? September 15, 2005 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Was there ever life on Mars? The answer to this question would do more than just satisfy curiosity. Researchers from NASA announce a plan to drill on Mars in search of ancient Martian organisms for comparison ... | |
Future mobile phones may have 100GB memory September 12, 2005 | User rating: 2.9 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Mobile phones might one day have the memory capacity of a desktop computer thanks to a microchip that mimics the functioning of the brain. | |
 Zinc Powder Will Drive Your Hydrogen Car September 11, 2005 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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A revolutionary method of using concentrated solar energy for producing hydrogen in a clean, safe and inexpensive way was developed by a cooperation of scientists from Israel, Sweden, Switzerland and France. ... | |
 Nanotechnology for Recovery and Reuse of Spilled Oil September 09, 2005 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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The recent hurricane Katrina disaster has resulted in an oil crisis. Apart from the shortage there are reports of oil spills. Interface ... | |
Nano shuttles suggest lifting things may become thing of the past (Update) September 06, 2005 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
A key technological breakthrough led by the University of Edinburgh suggests that a futuristic world where people can move objects about ‘remotely’ with laser pointers could be closer than we think. Chemists working on the ... | |
 Silicon Nanotechnology to Combat Biowarfare Agents September 06, 2005 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
In fall 2001, several letters containing deadly spores were sent to targeted spots across the county. The documents threatened the lives of postal workers, government administrative workers, officials and others. ... | |
Hydrogen-Wind-Nuclear Plant in Ontario Not Currently Worthwhile, Study Shows August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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A recent case study on using hydrogen to store the electricity generated by a mix of wind and nuclear power in Ontario, Canada, has shown that the hydrogen addition won’t be worth the cost, at least not at the current state ... | |
Physicists Investigate Controversy over Room-Temperature Ice August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By confining water in nano-sized spaces, physicists from Leiden University in the Netherlands have turned water into ice at room temperature. While it’s not the first time scientists have created room-temperature ... | |
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