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Biologists Enlist Online Gamers: Players will design HIV vaccines (Health)
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A protein researcher has teamed up with computer scientists to create an online game for developing useful protein structures. David Baker, a leading protein scientist at the University of Washington, says that players will help his lab design new vaccines and make enzymes for repairing DNA in diseased tissues.
posted: 09/05/2008
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Can You Become a Creature of New Habits? (The Brain)
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Brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel synaptic paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.
posted: 07/05/2008
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Delaying data could cut net's power usage (Computing Power)
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As energy prices soar, and governments and organisations start to sweat over their carbon footprint, the energy consumption of the internet (over 2% of all human activity and growing) is coming under scrutiny.
posted: 07/05/2008
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Pentagon Hoping for AI CyberWarfare Practice agents, ‘As Real as Humans’ (Pure Research)
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The Pentagon, America’s military leadership, is urging the creation of AI agents that are capable of demonstrating “demonstrate human-level behaviour on 80 percent of all events”, in order to act as training opponents for Cyberwarfare.
posted: 07/05/2008
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Using Nanowires for Display Screens (Display Technology)
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Researchers at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign have developed a simple process to grow upright copper nanowires on different surfaces. Such fields of vertical nanotubes are perfect for display systems, where each nanotube conducts single electron streams up to phosphor particles on the screen, creating extremely high fidelity displays. Such are known as field-emission displays.
posted: 07/05/2008
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Nanotube production leaps from sooty mess in test tube to ready formed chemical microsensors (Computing Power)
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University of Warwick chemists have produced single-walled carbon nanotubes that instantly form ultramicroelecrodes that could be used to create biocompatible, ultrasensitive sensors with high signal-to-noise ratios and fast response times.
posted: 07/05/2008
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UK Dedication to Telehealth - New spectrum to improve health (Connectivity)
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The UK telecommuncations regulator Ofcom has stated the UK needs to free up more of the radio spectrum for telehealth and transportation applications.
posted: 07/05/2008
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UK Sewer-Broadband Tests (Connectivity)
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Bournemouth has been picked as the first UK town to get super-fast fibre via the sewers.
posted: 07/05/2008
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Study Finds 'Brain Training' Games Do Work (The Brain)
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Earlier today, a Swiss-American team reported in a leading scientific journal that a computer based brain-training method designed to improve working memory also increases scores in "fluid intelligence", or general problem-solving ability.
posted: 01/05/2008
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BT rolls out 24MB/sec Broadband for UK (Connectivity)
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BT Wholesale will be offering its ADSL2+ technology to Internet Service Providers from this week.
posted: 01/05/2008
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