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- Scientists reveal genetic mutation depicted in van Gogh's sunflower paintings
- 'Backpacking' bacteria help ferry nano-medicines inside humans
- Oscillating gel acts like artificial skin, giving robots potential ability to 'feel'
- Electricity and carbon dioxide used to generate alternative fuel
- First the smart phone, now the smart home: Technology anticipates, meets our needs for health, efficiency
- Physicists find patterns in new state of matter
- Titanium paternity test fingers Earth as moon's sole parent
- 'Living' micro-robot could detect diseases in humans
- Met office to provide space weather warnings for planet Earth and forecasts for exoplanets
| Scientists reveal genetic mutation depicted in van Gogh's sunflower paintings Posted: 29 Mar 2012 07:52 PM PDT Scientists reveal the mutation behind the distinctive, thick bands of yellow "double flowers" that Vincent van Gogh painted more than 100 years ago.  |
| 'Backpacking' bacteria help ferry nano-medicines inside humans Posted: 29 Mar 2012 07:52 PM PDT To the ranks of horses, donkeys and other animals that have served humanity as pack animals or beasts of burden, scientists are now enlisting bacteria to ferry nano-medicine cargos throughout the human body. Scientists have recently reported on progress in developing "backpacking" bacteria that are so small that a million would fit on the head of a pin.  |
| Oscillating gel acts like artificial skin, giving robots potential ability to 'feel' Posted: 29 Mar 2012 02:16 PM PDT Sooner than later, robots may have the ability to "feel." Scientists have now demonstrated that a non-oscillating gel can be resuscitated in a fashion similar to a medical cardiopulmonary resuscitation.  |
| Electricity and carbon dioxide used to generate alternative fuel Posted: 29 Mar 2012 02:16 PM PDT Imagine being able to use electricity to power your car and it's not an electric vehicle. Researchers have for the first time demonstrated a method for converting carbon dioxide into liquid fuel isobutanol using electricity.  |
| Posted: 29 Mar 2012 02:04 PM PDT We have all heard of the smartphone and any day now, most of us will have one. Not far behind: The smart home. Scientists say it won't be long before our homes act as "intelligent agents" that use sensors and software to anticipate our needs and tend to tasks that improve our health, energy efficiency, even social media.  |
| Physicists find patterns in new state of matter Posted: 29 Mar 2012 11:15 AM PDT Physicists have discovered patterns which underlie the properties of a new state of matter. In a new study, the scientists describe the emergence of "spontaneous coherence," "spin textures" and "phase singularities" when excitons -- the bound pairs of electrons and holes that determine the optical properties of semiconductors and enable them to function as novel optoelectronic devices -- are cooled to near absolute zero.  |
| Titanium paternity test fingers Earth as moon's sole parent Posted: 29 Mar 2012 09:47 AM PDT A new chemical analysis of lunar material collected by Apollo astronauts in the 1970s conflicts with the widely held theory that a giant collision between Earth and a Mars-sized object gave birth to the moon 4.5 billion years ago.  |
| 'Living' micro-robot could detect diseases in humans Posted: 29 Mar 2012 08:21 AM PDT A tiny prototype robot that functions like a living creature is being developed which one day could be safely used to pinpoint diseases within the human body. Called 'Cyberplasm', it will combine advanced microelectronics with latest research in biomimicry. The aim is for Cyberplasm to have an electronic nervous system, 'eye' and 'nose' sensors derived from mammalian cells, as well as artificial muscles that use glucose as an energy source to propel it.  |
| Met office to provide space weather warnings for planet Earth and forecasts for exoplanets Posted: 28 Mar 2012 05:37 PM PDT The UK Met Office's weather and climate model is being adapted to help understand space weather at Earth and the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars.  |
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