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Cheats of Strength: 10 Next-Gen
Olympic Doping Methods
Wired Aug. 14, 2008
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The future of doping could include
manipulating genes to block
naturally occurring muscle-growth
inhibitors, pills to stimulate red
blood cell production, vascular
endothelial growth factor to grow
new blood vessels, and injecting the
beta-endorphin gene into spinal
fluid to release painkilling...
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Digitizing Old Text and Fighting
Spam, Too
ScienceNOW Daily News Aug. 12, 2008
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Carnegie Mellon University
scientists have developed a program
called reCAPTCHA that collects words
flagged as unreadable by optical
scanners as they digitize texts,
sending those words (in the form of
OCR scans) to cooperating Web sites
and used in place of random
CAPTCHAs. The reCAPTCHA system now
automatically collects about 4
million...
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Hollywood Hair is Captured at Last
PhysOrg.com Aug. 13, 2008
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UC San Diego, Adobe, and MIT
researchers have developed a new
method for accurately capturing the
shape and appearance of a person's
hairstyle for use in animated films
and video games. The left two images
demonstrate different aspects of a
real hairstyle that the computer
scientists captured. The third image
from left is the reference...
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Self-assembling polymer arrays
improve data storage potential
PhysOrg.com Aug. 14, 2008
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University of Wisconsin-Madison and
Hitachi have achieved higher
data-storage density by using
self-assembling block copolymers to
shrink the size of the pattern
manufacturing templates used in disk
drives and other data-storage
devices, paving the way to smaller
electronic devices and
higher-capacity hard drives. When
added to a...
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Making a Solar Cell Component
without Using Fossil Fuels
ScientificAmerican.com Aug. 13, 2008
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BioSolar is creating new plastic
backing for photovoltaic cells out
of renewable cotton and castor beans
rather than petroleum products,
while costing 25 percent less than
conventional backsheets, the company...
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Turning Waste Material into Ethanol
KurzweilAI.net Aug. 15, 2008
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Researchers at the U.S. Department
of Energy's Ames Laboratory and Iowa
State University are combining
gasification with high-tech
nanoscale porous catalysts to create
ethanol from a wide range of
biomass, including distiller's grain
left over from ethanol production,
corn stover from the field, grass,
wood pulp, animal waste, and...
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Virtual hand gets under the skin
New Scientist Tech Aug. 14, 2008
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Amazingly realistic new animations
of the human hand are detailed
enough to shed light on the mystery
of how the tendons and muscles of
the human hand interact when we
move, and should help surgeons
reconstruct damaged hands more
effectively. University of British
Columbia animators used anatomical
data from medical images to create a
physics...
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