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Practical Cloaking Devices On The
Horizon?
PhysOrg.com Aug. 10, 2008
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University of California, Berkeley
scientists have created a
multilayered, "fishnet" metamaterial
that unambiguously exhibits negative
refractive index, allowing for
invisibility in three dimensions for
the first time, Nature magazine
plans to report this week....
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First Solar: Quest for the $1 Watt
IEEE Spectrum August 2008
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First Solar's solar cells will
likely meet typical grid-parity
prices ($1/Watt) for the off-peak
market in developed countries in
just two to four years, analysts
say. Its product has three massive
cost benefits: its ­active
element is just a hundredth the
thickness of silicon; it is built on
a glass substrate, which enables the...
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How recycling could keep your
organs young
NewScientist.com news service Aug.10, 2008
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Researchers at Albert Einstein
College of Medicine of Yeshiva
University have prevented the livers
of mice from aging by engineering
mice in which the cellular cleaning
machinery is stopped from breaking
down, thus blocking buildup of
damaged proteins. They developed
mice with an extra copy of the gene
that codes for a receptor protein
that...
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Six-legged robot spider does the
limbo
EE Times Aug. 7, 2008
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A six-legged autonomous robotic
spider jointly developed by Nanyang
Polytechnic of Singapore, Schmid
Engineering AG and Analog Devices
has been designed to support rescue
operations. The robot's highly
mobile walking scheme design
consists of six independent legs
that move the robot, even across
rough terrain. Walking and rotating
are among the...
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Researchers Halt Spread Of HIV With
RNAi In Animal Model
ScienceDaily Aug. 8, 2008
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Researchers at Harvard Medical
School-affiliated Immune Disease
Institute have used RNA interference
(RNAi) to dramatically suppress HIV
infection in an organism (in this
study, mice). Using an attached
antibody molecule. the scientists
delivered short interfering RNAs
(siRNAs) -- molecules that silence
genes by disrupting the protein...
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A Bridge between Virtual Worlds
Technology Review Aug.11, 2008
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The first steps in developing
virtual-world interoperability are
now being tested between Second Life
and other independent virtual
worlds, with the launch of Linden
Lab's Open Grid Beta....
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Google Translate now sports iPhone
version
Macworld Aug. 8, 2008
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Google has created an iPhone/iPod
Touch-specific version of its Google
Translate website, allowing for
bi-directional translation between
more than 20 different languages,
among them Chinese, French, Swedish,
and German....
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$3 million grant awarded to build
'digital matter'
KurzweilAI.net Aug.10, 2008
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Research in diamond
mechanosynthesis (DMS) -- building
diamond nanostructures atom by atom
using scanning probe microscopy --
just received a major boost with a
$3 million grant from the U.K.
Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council, awarded to
Professor Philip Moriarty at the
University of Nottingham for a
"Digital Matter" project, the...
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