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Tiny wires could usher new computer era

Jan 8, 2012

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Scientists said Thursday they have designed tiny wires, 10,000 times thinner than a human hair but with the same electrical capacity as copper, in a major step toward building smaller, more potent computers.The advance, described in the US journal Science, shows for the firs
Bits of Russia space probe set to fall Jan. 15

Jan 8, 2012

MOSCOW (AP) — Fragments of a failed Russian space probe are now expected to fall to Earth on Jan. 15, officials said Wednesday.The unmanned Phobos-Ground probe was launched Nov. 9 on what was supposed to have been a 2 1/2-year mission to the Mars moon of Phobus to take soil samples and fly the
First mixed-embryo monkeys are born in US

Jan 6, 2012

US researchers said Thursday they have created the world's first mixed-embryo monkeys by merging cells from up to six different embryos, in what could be a big advance for medical research. A baby rhesus macaque monkey looks out from the arms of its mother in Hong Kong in July 2011. (AFP)Until
Now you see it, now you don't: Time cloak created

Jan 5, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It is one thing to make an object invisible, like boy wizard Harry Potter's mythical cloak. But scientists have made an entire event impossible to see. They have invented a time masker.(Cornell University)Think of it as an art theft that takes place before your eyes and surveillan
Strange crystals said from outer space

Jan 4, 2012

PRINCETON, N.J. (UPI) -- It turns out unusual crystals found in Russia weren't formed on Earth, researchers say, but rather came from outer space.The so-called quasicrystals, with an unusual structure somewhere between crystals and glass, had only been previously created in laboratories before they
World-first hybrid shark found off Australia

Jan 4, 2012

SYDNEY, Jan 3, 2012 (AFP) - Scientists said on Tuesday that they had discovered the world's first hybrid sharks in Australian waters, a potential sign the predators were adapting to cope with climate change.The mating of the local Australian black-tip shark with its global counterpart, the common bl
Hormone linked to Alzheimer's diseases: study

Jan 3, 2012

A hormone found in body fat could develop the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease in older women, a study found."It is well established that insulin signaling is dysfunctional in the brains of patients with AD, and since adiponectin enhances insulin sensitivity, one would also expect beneficial
NASA marks 2012 with twin probes in moon orbit

Jan 2, 2012

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ NASA kicked off the new year with a pair of probes circling the moon in the latest mission to understand how Earth's closest neighbor formed.There was no champagne popping in the mission control room at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory when the Grail spacecraft arrived back-to-b
Britain releases UFO sighting and policy files

Jan 1, 2012
NASA probe circling the moon on New Year's Eve

Jan 1, 2012

PASADENA, California (AP) -- As planet Earth rang in the new year, a different kind of countdown was happening at the moon.After a 3{-month journey, a NASA spacecraft flew over the moon's south pole, fired its engine and dropped into orbit Saturday in the first of two back-to-back arrivals over the
Brainless fish found off Scotland

Dec 30, 2011

Marine Scotland / Courtesy Scottish GovernmentA marine survey around islands off Scotland has found a fish-like creature without a face or a brain, researchers said.The creature and others were recorded during a government-backed survey of the waters around Scotland's coast, using underwater video a
Vigorous star-forming galaxy at cosmic dawn discovered

Dec 27, 2011

An international team of astronomers has discovered a vigorous, star-forming galaxy that existed about 750 million years after the Big Bang. This galaxy, named GN-108036, was a remarkable source of star formation at the so-called "cosmic dawn.” It was generating an exceptionally large amount of star
Automatic skin-making machine might mean end to animal testing

Dec 26, 2011

Scientists at Germany's Fraunhofer Society research organization have developed a machine that makes artificial skin fully automatically.If it receives approval from the relevant control bodies in Europe it could make animal testing in laboratories obsolete.The machine is seven meters long, three me
Automatic skin-making machine might mean end to animal testing

Dec 26, 2011

Stuttgart (dpa) - Scientists at Germany's Fraunhofer Societyresearch organisation have developed a machine that makes artificialskin fully automatically.If it receives approval from the relevant control bodies in Europeit could make animal testing in laboratories obsolete.The machine is seven metres
Earth has two moons now

Dec 26, 2011

The Earth has always had a second moon, new study has claimed. When astronomers in Arizona found a mysterious titanium white object orbiting the Earth in the fall of 2006, it looked like a spent rocket stage The full moon rises behind the ancient temple of Posseidon, in Sounio about 73 kilomet