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Ebola-like virus returns to Europe
after 40 years
New Scientist news service July 11, 2008
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Marburg, a deadly hemorrhagic fever
closely related to Ebola, is back in
Europe, after a 40 year absence. On
July 11, a 40-year old Dutch woman
died in a quarantined ward of a
hospital in Leiden, the Netherlands,
less than two weeks after she
returned from Uganda. The first
human cases in Germany killed a
quarter of those infected, while...
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Could killer horse virus spread
among humans?
New Scientist news service July 22, 2008
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Australia is suffering the biggest
outbreak of the highly virulent
Hendra virus since the disease was
identified in 1994. Now a change in
its symptoms is raising fears that
new strains may have emerged -- and
even that a strain capable of
spreading from human-to-human could
appear....
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Gassing Up with Garbage
NY Times July 24, 2008
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After years of false starts, a new
industry selling motor fuel made
from waste is getting a big push in
the United States, with the first
commercial sales possible within
months. About 28 small plants are in
advanced planning, under
construction or, in a handful of
cases, already up and running in
test...
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MIT: Optical lithography good to 12
nanometers
EE Times July 25, 2008
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Optical lithography can be extended
to 12 nanometers, according to
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology researchers who have so
far demonstrated 25-nm lines using a
new technique called scanning beam
interference lithography.
Interference lithography uses two
lasers of different frequencies that
interfere with each other to create
a grating...
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Microsoft Engineers Invent
Energy-Efficient LCD Competitor
IEEE Spectrum Online July 2008
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Microsoft researchers have built a
prototype display technology that
mimics the optics in a telescope (at
the scale of individual display
pixels), with results that are
faster and more efficient than a
liquid crystal display (LCD).
Telescopic pixels (Anna pyayt) LCD,
the most common display technology,
is lit from the back, and less than...
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More-Efficient Thermoelectrics
Technology Review July 24, 2008
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Ohio State University researchers
have doubled the efficiency of a
common thermoelectric material (a
type of semiconductor that converts
heat into electricity), making it
more practical for generating
electricity from waste heat such as
that produced in power plants and
car engines. The improved efficiency
could translate into a 10 percent...
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Discovery may boost statin safety
BBC News July 23, 2008
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University of Oxford researchers
have found a gene mutation that is
the major cause of a rare but
serious side effect of
cholesterol-lowering statin drugs.
They found that a variation in the
DNA code of a gene called SLC01B1
was responsible for 60% of the
myopathy (severe muscle pain and
weakness) cases in people taking
high dose statin...
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Enzyme structure reveals key
ingredients for making hydrogen
Nature News July 24, 2008
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Max Planck Institute researchers
have figured out the detailed
structure of[Fe] hydrogenase, an
enzyme used by hydrothermal vent
microbes to process hydrogen. By
knowing the structure of this
enzyme's active site, chemists will
have new clues on how to build
inexpensive synthetic catalysts for
hydrogen-based energy. Currently,
the best...
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