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Tata Motors unveils the $2,500
'People's Car'
PhysOrg.com Jan. 10, 2008
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Indian company Tata Motors has
unveiled a tiny vehicle that is also
affordable, safe, and
fuel-efficient: "the People's Car,"
aka "Nano." The Nano, which can get
up to 54 mpg and seat four people,
will go on sale for $2,500 (1-lakh)
in India later this year....
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Robots Need a Sensitive Touch
PC World Jan. 10, 2008
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Robots could mean real business
when they get arms and hands that
mimic the dexterity and sensitivity
of humans, said Tandy Trower,
general manager of Microsoft's
robotics group. The hardware needed
for that may be available in five
years, but the real challenge will
be in programming the robot, Trower
said. Software that allows robots to...
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9 Questions for Carnegie Mellon
Robot Chief Matthew Mason
Popular Mechanics January 10, 2008
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The Robotics Institute at Carnegie
Mellon is coming off a $2 million
win in November's DARPA Urban
Challenge, and director Matthew
Mason discussed what's next, from
the Google Lunar X Prize to super
artificial intelligence....
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Creating a Web of Worlds
Technology Review Jan. 11, 2008
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Metaplace wants to enable its users
to build virtual worlds that could
exist anywhere on the Web. With
Metaplace, designers can build
worlds using a markup language,
style sheets, modules, and a
scripting language. Every world acts
like a Web server, and every object
in a world has a URL....
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Former OLPC CTO Aims to Create $75
Laptop
PC World Jan. 9, 2008
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Pixel Qi, a company spun off from
the One Laptop Per Child project,
aims to create a $75 laptop.
Technology advances planned by Pixel
Qi include a sunlight-readable
display system optimized for
low-power operation....
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New fabrication technique brings us
closer to optical chips
Technology Review Jan. 10, 2008
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University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign scientists have
created a new process for making
complex miniature waveguides that
can steer optical signals in three
dimensions through solid materials,
reducing one obstacle to developing
all-optical integrated circuits and
better opto-electronic devices. They
demonstrated a technique that uses...
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Nanotechnology innovation allows
gene detection in a single cell
PhysOrg.com Jan. 10, 2008
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Scientists at Arizona State
University's Biodesign Institute
have developed the world's first
gene detection platform made up
entirely from self-assembled DNA
nanostructures. The DNA nanoarrays
were able to detect three different
RNA genes. DNA nanoarrays bound to
their RNA targets (Yonggang Ke)...
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New Diet Drug in Battle of the
Bulge
Scientific American Jan. 9, 2008
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Merck researchers report that the
cannabinoid receptor blocking drug
taranabant helped obese patients
lose weight during a 12-week trial,
even at low doses ranging from 0.5
to six milligrams. Taranabant is the
second appetite suppressant and
weight-loss drug that works by
blocking cannabinoid receptors....
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Stem cell breakthrough leaves
embryos unharmed
New Scientist news service Jan. 10, 2008
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Advanced Cell Technology
researchers have demonstrated that a
technique to extract and culture a
single embryonic cell from an embryo
without destroying the remaining
embryo does work, showing that the
embryos survive and could develop to
full term. They produced four new
lines of human embryonic stem cells
using the technique....
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New Mode of Cell Communication
Discovered
ScienceNOW Daily News Jan. 9, 2008
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University of Utah researchers have
discovered a surprisingly tiny new
messenger in worms: protons. The
find raises the possibility that the
subatomic particle plays the same
role in humans, the researchers...
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