Category: Science
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Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle
Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or Dungeons and Dragons: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade. read more
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Smart Cast “Likes” Your Broken Arm
Breaking your arm is an unpleasant experience – the pain, the weeks of healing, losing the ability to perform everyday tasks quickly and easily. But one invention seeks to ease those pains, breathing new technological life into the traditional plaster cast read more.
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Robot Helps Quadriplegic Scratch an Itch for the First Time in a Decade
Georgia Tech’s Healthcare Robotics Lab and Willow Garage have been collaborating with Henry Evans, who became a mute quadriplegic after suffering a stroke 10 years ago, to use a PR2 robot as his surrogate. read more
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Researchers aim to ‘print’ human skin
Researchers are developing a specialized skin “printing” system that could be used in the future to treat soldiers wounded on the battlefield. read more
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2020: Are We Only 9 Years Away from an Artificial Human Brain?
“It’s a new brain. The mammals needed it because they had to cope with parenthood, social interactions, complex cognitive functions. It was so successful an evolution from mouse to man it expanded about a thousand fold in terms of the numbers of units to produce this almost frightening organ. It is evolving at an enormous…
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Tea and coffee reduce heart disease risk, study suggests
Regularly drinking tea and coffee can significantly reduce the risk of developing heart disease, one of the biggest studies of its kind suggests. read more
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How butterfly wings could make bank notes impossible to forge
Scientists at Cambridge University have found a way to mimic the colours on tropical butterfly wings, which could be used to make bank notes and credit cards far harder to forge. read more
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World’s most powerful atom smasher restarts: CERN
A view of a superconducting solenoid magnet at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva. Scientists have restarted the world’s most powerful atom-smasher overnight, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Sunday, as they launch a new bid to uncover the secrets of the universe. read more