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3-D Viewing without Goofy Glasses
Technology Review June 12, 2008
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Philips' WOWvx displays--which
allow viewers to perceive
high-quality 3-D images without the
need for special glasses--are now
beginning to appear in shopping
malls, movie-theater lobbies, and
theme parks worldwide. Artist
rendition of WOWvx 3-D screens
(Phillips) The technology uses
image-processing software, plus
display hardware that...
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Top Secret: CIA explains its
Wikipedia-like national security
project
Computerworld June 10, 2008
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The CIA and DIA have created
Intellipedia, a Web 2.0
Wikipedia-like project, for use by
its analysts and spies, allowing
them to read and edit a central wiki
enhanced with a YouTube-like video
channel, Flickr-like photo-sharing
feature, content tagging, blogs, and
RSS...
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Have we underestimated total oil
reserves?
NewScientist news service June 11, 2008
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The record $139 per barrel price of
oil this week may partly be because
the amount of available oil in known
reserves has been significantly
underestimated, due to a statistical
error (failure to combine bell
curves for multiple reservoirs),
says Richard Pike, a former
oil-industry adviser and chief
executive of the UK Royal Society of...
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Toyota says to produce new hybrid
battery next year
PhysOrg.com June 11, 2008
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Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday
that it plans to move into
full-scale production of lithium-ion
batteries in 2010, as it races
against rivals to develop new
high-mileage hybrid vehicles, and
would also step up efforts to
development a next-generation
battery that can outperform
lithium-ion batteries....
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'Electron turbine' could print
designer molecules
New Scientist news service June 11, 2008
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Lancaster University scientists
have developed a conceptual design
for a carbon-nanotube-based motor
that spins in a current of electrons
(like a wind turbine). (C. Lambert)
The device could be made by
suspending a carbon nanotube between
two nanotubes and running an
electric current through it, causing
it to spin and function like a...
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Scientists Close to Reconstructing
First Living Cell
ScientificAmerican.com June 10, 2008
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Harvard Medical School researchers
have built a model of what they
believe in the first living cell on
Earth (3.5 to 4 billion years ago),
containing a strip of genetic
material surrounded by a fatty
membrane and capable of replicating.
(Janet...
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'Circadian eye' could be key to
insomnia
New Scientist news service June 11, 2008
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A handful of retina cells sense
light, not for vision, but to reset
our circadian rhythms (body clocks)
each day. Restoring these cells back
into action (via drugs or extra-pale
blue light) might help insomniacs,
whose circadian cycles are slightly
off....
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Dual action Alzheimer's drug hope
BBC News June 11, 2008
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Mayo clinic researchers have
developed a new class of
"gamma-secretase modulator" (GSM)
drugs that lower levels of the
protein that forms the sticky clumps
associated with Alzheimer's, and
boost levels of shorter pieces of
the same protein, helping inhibit
clump-formation of longer pieces.
Plaques, formed of long pieces of
amyloid beta...
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