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Scientist: DNA led agents to
anthrax suspect
AP August 4, 2008
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The new genome technology that
tracked down anthrax suspect and
scientist Bruce Ivins was either not
available or too expensive to use
often until about three years ago.
Investigators noticed very subtle
differences between the DNA of the
strain used in the attacks and in
other types of Ames anthrax. The
science is known as DNA...
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Rumors Abound About 'Potential for
Life' on Mars
Wired Science Aug. 3, 2008
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Rumors are flying this weekend that
Mars Phoenix has made a major
discovery relating to the potential
for life on Mars. The White House
has been alerted by NASA about plans
to make an announcement soon on
major new Phoenix lander discoveries
concerning the "potential for life"
on Mars, scientists told Aviation
Week & Space Technology....
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Anthrax Case Renews Questions on
Bioterror
New York Times Aug. 3, 2008
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Has the unprecedented boom in
biodefense research made the country
less secure by multiplying the
places and people with access to
dangerous germs? FBI investigators
have long speculated that the motive
for the attacks, if carried out by a
biodefense insider like Dr. Bruce
Ivins, might have been to draw
public attention to a dire threat,...
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Is our universe fine-tuned for
life? (article preview)
New Scientist Tech Aug. 2, 2008
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The idea that certain aspects of
our universe make it uniquely suited
to life could well be an illusion,
suggests Fred Adams of the
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor,
pointing out that "no one has done
the calculations." So Adams selected
a range of possible values for each
of three basic constants involved in
the formation of stars (the...
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Pneumatic robot arranges limbs for
MRI 'sweet spot'
New Scientist Tech Aug. 1, 2008
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A pneumatic robot that positions
patients' limbs inside an MRI
scanner allows physicians to exploit
a bizarre phenomenon where
hard-to-see tendons jump into sharp
focus when held at the right angle....
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Toyota tests Segway-like
stand-up-and-ride machine
AP Aug. 1, 2008
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Toyota has developed the "Winglet,"
a motorized stand-up-and-ride Segway
lookalike designed to help people
scoot around at malls and airports.
The Winglet goes up to 3.7 mph,
about the same speed as pedestrians.
Toyota envisions a future in which
the Winglet will have wireless
technology so it relays shopping
information at stores. Or it...
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The Brightest, Sharpest, Fastest
X-Ray Holograms Yet
KurzweilAI.net Aug. 4, 2008
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An international group of
scientists has produced two of the
brightest, sharpest x-ray holograms
of microscopic objects ever made,
thousands of times more efficiently
than previous x-ray-holographic
methods. The two experiments
demonstrate that massively parallel
holographic x-ray images with
nanometer-scale resolution can be
made of...
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Microsoft 'degrees of separation'
study interpretation challenged
KurzweilAI.net Aug. 4, 2008
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In the "largest social network
constructed and analyzed to date,"
Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon
University researchers investigated
on a planetary scale the oft-cited
report that people are separated by
"six degrees of separation." Based
on 30 billion Microsoft Messenger
instant-message conversations among
240 million people, the study found...
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Automated, Wearable Kidney Offers
Continuous Dialysis
HealthDay News July 26, 2008
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Researchers at UCLA and Veterans
Affairs in Los Angeles have designed
an automated wearable artificial
kidney (AWAK) that would allow
kidney-failure patients to have
hemodialysis (remove metabolic waste
and regulate fluid levels) without
being connected to a stationary
machine. The new machine would be
bloodless (no blood circulating
outside...
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