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Graphene, the one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms that was discovered in 2004 at the University of Manchester, is the most avidly researched material today in the field of condensed-matter physics. Because electrons flow in a very peculiar way through it, experts believe it may constitute the replacement of choice f... |
15 October 2009
04:55 GMT |
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Through an innovative computer simulation, experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) have finally been able to provide a fairly clear and accurate description of some of the processes that take place between two individual strands of DNA, when they come together to form the double-helix structure we are al... |
7 October 2009
14:51 GMT |
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The first known genetic regulatory protein, the lactose repressor protein, was discovered as far back as 1966, but it was only recently that the tools of biochemistry became sophisticated enough to allow for it to be investigated thoroughly. Behind the research were experts at the Rice University (RU), who discovered... |
23 September 2009
18:11 GMT |
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Since it was shown in chemical experiments that the “primordial soup” could have led to the formation of complex proteins and nucleic acid strands from amino-acids over time, experts have been trying to model this in the laboratory, with various degrees of success. Now, German researchers at the Universit... |
17 September 2009
05:51 GMT |
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Experts at the University of Washington in Seattle have recently announced the first successful treatment of color blindness using gene therapy, in squirrel monkeys. The method has been applied on animals that were born with the condition, not that developed it over the course of their lifetimes. The new research bri... |
17 September 2009
01:30 GMT |
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An international team of researchers, composed of experts from the Rutgers University, in Newark, the US, and the College de France, in Paris, has determined for the first time the nature of the mechanisms that take place in the human brain during sleep, which cause learning and memory to form. The scientific proof c... |
16 September 2009
09:02 GMT |
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For more than two decades, Hubbard's Model has been the standard in predicting and calculating the behavior of high-temperature superconductors in the field of physics. Experts at the University of British Columbia (UBC) have recently demonstrated that, under certain conditions, this model fails. The study could... |
20 August 2009
10:34 GMT |
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Scientists have taken a new step in better understanding the complex and intricate processes that go on under our planet's crust, when they have recently discovered the first Earth pump, which they say plays a crucial role in the formation of ore deposits, and in creating the best conditions possible for earthqu... |
19 June 2009
07:02 GMT |
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Scientists at the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have recently discovered a fundamental flaw in our understanding of transistor noise, which is a phenomenon that appears inside a transistor's on and off switch. The team that found the problem says that, unless solved, the iss... |
22 May 2009
10:57 GMT |
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In 2008, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has commissioned three multi-university scientific teams to investigate the possibility of developing a technology that would allow for trapping various types of atoms into micro-scale “light crystals,” also designated as optical lattices. ... |
10 April 2009
06:20 GMT |
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While tobacco is most of the time advertised as a destructive plant, not many people know that it contains substances that can be successfully used to fight several wide-spread medical conditions, such as a few autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, including diabetes. Just recently, a team of experts from a number of... |
19 March 2009
10:59 GMT |
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Scientists have only recently discovered an alga that is extremely potent, in that it has the natural ability to detoxify the deadly poison arsenic. The tiny organism, which is actually a simple unicellular alga known as Cyanidioschyzon, can metabolize the chemical in places where the latter occurs naturally, such as... |
10 March 2009
06:42 GMT |
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Researchers from the United States have managed to surpass one of the most difficult obstacles that has stood in the way of creating the first artificial life form, when they have successfully created a ribosome, a part of the cell that is often referred to as its “factory.” It's the place where the ... |
9 March 2009
17:31 GMT |
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Scientist have known for a long time that atoms placed in various specific conformations have the potential to make electrons around them dance in a “quantum” way, but have until now failed to create such an alignment. But the February 13th edition of the journal Science hosts a new scientific study that ... |
19 February 2009
04:54 GMT |
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Researchers from the US are currently in possession of what could be referred to as the first artificially-created genetic code in history. Currently located in beakers at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainesville, Florida, the DNA-like chemical elements may form the first organism in history cap... |
16 February 2009
11:01 GMT |
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The sweet stuff has been an attraction at fun fairs and various social gatherings for more than 100 years now, but during all this time no one thought that the innocent-looking cotton candy could actually prove one day to be the solution of one of medicine's greatest problems – how to create small and intr... |
12 February 2009
05:28 GMT |
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Planetary scientists at UCLA have discovered a new method of analyzing exactly how convection currents drive the movements of stars, planets, and pretty much everything in between. Convection refers to the heat transfer from one designated location to another, via the movement of gas, liquids, or even slow moving sol... |
21 January 2009
15:01 GMT |
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American Building Technologies, a subsidiary of Mulk Holdings, a multi-national group based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has managed to devise a new method of producing solar energy at a 50 percent lower cost, while at the same time increasing the efficiency of the entire process. The new production system is s... |
19 January 2009
09:56 GMT |
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Obtaining real molecules in an artificial environment has been a long-time dream for biology engineers, and one that was not short on difficulties that had to be surpassed to achieve it. But now, scientists at the Scripps Research Institute, in La Jolla, California, managed to create such a molecule, a tiny fragment ... |
9 January 2009
07:06 GMT |
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Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) – a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) – working with colleagues from the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases in Singapore, managed to devise a new experimental drug, that showed promise in lab tests, when ... |
28 November 2008
04:35 GMT |
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A team of US researchers finally managed to break the last obstacle that stood in the way of mobile electronics, as in gadgets and devices that can be bent, stretched and twisted. Thus far, silicon has been an insurmountable difficulty in the path of progress, as the chemical does not allow any kind of reshaping, due... |
20 November 2008
07:13 GMT |
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Striving to understand the way in which neurons transmit information between each other has been a golden prize for biologists for more than half a century. The intricate "signal rate" patterns that occur when the brain is analyzing something or when it's making a decision and elaborating a response has proven t... |
17 October 2008
10:46 GMT |
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