Highest Freefall From Edge Of Space

Highest Freefall From Edge Of Space

  9:52:00 AM    Science Lover

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Felix Baumgartner Successfully Lands After Highest Freefall from Edge of Space Austria's Felix Baumgartner earned his place in the history books on Sunday (Oct. 14, 2012) after overcoming concerns with the power for his visor heater that impaired his vision and nearly...

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Complex Logic Circuit from Bacterial Genes

Complex Logic Circuit from Bacterial Genes

  11:34:00 AM    Science Lover

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By force of habit we tend to assume computers are made of silicon, but there is actually no necessary connection between the machine and the material. All that an engineer needs to do to make a computer is to find a way to build logic gates -- the elementary building...

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'Invisibility': Key to Better Electronics?

'Invisibility': Key to Better Electronics?

  11:07:00 AM    Science Lover

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Visual 'Cloaking' Technology Enables More Efficient Transfer of Electrons  A new approach that allows objects to become "invisible" has now been applied to an entirely different area: letting particles "hide" from passing electrons, which could lead to more...

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Gravity Lenses: When Galaxies Eat Galaxies

Gravity Lenses: When Galaxies Eat Galaxies

  9:44:00 AM    Science Lover

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Using gravitational "lenses" in space, University of Utah astronomers discovered that the centers of the biggest galaxies are growing denser -- evidence of repeated collisions and mergers by massive galaxies with 100 billion stars. This image, taken by the Hubble Space...

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012: Smart Receptors On Cell Surfaces

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012: Smart Receptors On Cell Surfaces

  9:32:00 AM    Science Lover

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2012 to Robert J. Lefkowitz Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University Medical Center and Brian K. Kobilka Stanford University School of Medicine "for studies of G-protein-coupled...

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