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01 July 2011
Nanovaults help immune system fight cancer
UCLA scientists have discovered a way to “wake up” the immune system to fight cancer by delivering an immune systemstimulating protein in a nanoscale container called a vault directly into lung cancer tumours.
01 July 2011
Smaller, better, faster
A University of Pittsburgh-led team has created a single-electron transistor that provides a building block for new, more powerful computer memories, advanced electronic materials and the basic components of quantum computers.
01 July 2011
Pilots over Libya, in their own words
Combat came fast to the US airmen called to perform the earliest missions over Libya this March.
01 July 2011
Circling Mercury
Nasa’s Messenger probe completed a 6,5-year, 8 billion-km journey to Mercury in March.
01 July 2011
The day the Earth heaved
The colossal 9.0 earthquake in Japan shifted enough mass to make Earth rotate faster. 01 July 2011
During surgery, the beat goes on
One of the riskiest parts of open-heart surgery is that doctors have to stop the organ and send the patient’s blood through a bypass machine, potentially causing heart and brain damage.
01 July 2011
Balancing act
The biggest challenge for walking robots used to be staying upright. Now, Boston Dynamics has two four-year DARPA contracts to make its Petman android prototype as agile as its human creators. 01 July 2011
More driving, less danger
Driving fatalities in the US have dropped 25 per cent over the past five years, and last year’s statistic is projected to be the lowest since 1949.
23 June 2011 - By: Kate Downs
Tangling with telecoms
Free-space quantum communication using lasers could form the basis for a global network that’s impossible to hack or tap
01 June 2011
Invasion of the king crabs
It’s like a scene from a sci-fi movie – thousands, possibly millions, of king crabs are marching through icy, deep-sea waters and up the Antarctic slope.Pages:
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