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World’s most sensitive scales weigh a zeptogramThe world's most sensitive scales can now detect a cluster of xenon atoms a billion, trillion times lighter than a gram. |
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Scanner ‘temperature check’ hopeDoctors are developing a technique to prevent patients inside MRI scanners from getting too hot. |
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Nanotech: The Tiny Science Is Big, and Getting BiggerAfter decades of hype, speculation, and multimillion-dollar laboratory research, the long-promised nanotechnology revolution is finally coming to a store near you. |
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First membrane-free alkaline fuel cell builtThe first membraneless alkaline fuel cell has been built by exploiting the way liquids do not mix in ultra-narrow channels. It could offer cheaper and more efficient fuel cells. |
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Alcohol-powered plane launchedA Brazilian firm has delivered the world's first ethanol-burning production aircraft to a crop-spraying company and it sees a booming market for alcohol powered planes. |
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IBM Unveils Mouse Adapter That Assists Hand-Tremor SufferersIBM on Monday said it has developed a computer mouse that can help hand-tremor sufferers eliminate excessive cursor movements, which often prevents the elderly and others from using a computer. |
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Could Microbes Solve Russia’s Chemical Weapons Conundrum?One of nature's most versatile microorganisms – a bacterium called Pseudomonas putida – could help mop up the toxic by-products caused by the destruction of the chemical weapon mustard, write Russian researchers in Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology this month. |
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EU to start on nuclear fusion reactor by end-yearThe European Union wants to start building the world's first nuclear fusion reactor by the end of 2005 with or without an international agreement, the bloc's research chief said on Monday, renewing a call for talks with rival host Japan. |
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So fast, so far, so high, soloWith a slightly bouncy landing on a Kansas runway, a tenacious pilot toppled one of the world's last great aviation milestones yesterday: a non-stop solo flight around the globe without refuelling. |
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Use air to charge your mobile phonesStudents at the Department of Industrial Design at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi have attached a turbine with a mobile phone that helps charge it even when the user is travelling, head of the department professor Lalit Kumar Das told PTI. |
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Tiny Infant Survives Surgery On Grape-Sized HeartDoctors at Stanford University say the prognosis is good for a premature baby who became the world's smallest infant to survive a type of open-heart surgery. |
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Genetic variation map may promise tailored drugsIn a major step toward one day offering gene-based customized medicine, scientists yesterday unveiled the first map of common human genetic variations — patterns of DNA differences that may help forecast people's disease risks and best treatments. |
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Intel makes advance in lasersResearchers from Intel Corp. have created the first continuous laser beam using silicon components, a development the chip maker called a scientific breakthrough that could herald significant advances in communications and medicine. |
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Genetic breakthrough could make pacemakers obsoleteAustralian scientists said pacemakers could be obsolete within a decade after researchers managed to revive heart tissue withered by cardiac arrests. |
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Science news headlines
- ‘Most Earth-like’ planets discovered
- Safer vaccine created without virus
- Asahi’s auto glass blocks UV, filters out IR rays
- Earth’s nearest solar neighborhood has a habitable planet
- New Microscopy Technique Can See The Lengths Of Atomic Bonds
- New radio telescope to watch for solar flares
- Mind-controlled helicopter aids concentration
- Fighting cancer with cell phones
- ‘Super-Earth’ exoplanet spotted 42 light-years away
- Amputee Climbs 103 Stories Using Mind-Controlled Bionic Leg
- Enjoyment of life ‘key to living longer’
- New Water Treatment Process Could Help Bring Dead Zones Back to Life
- SpaceX launches station cargo
- Energy from Solar Power now Cheaper than Fossil Fuels in 105 Countries
- Tesla Unveils Solar Powered Charging Stations
- Europe Now Creates Enough Solar Power to Fuel Austria
- Robots join the fight against cancer
- Puppet experiment suggests humans are born to be fair
- Bill Nye the Science Guy asks parents not to raise creationist kids
- Male contraceptive pill ‘step closer’ after mice studies
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