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Here's Where Your Backyard Was 300 Million Years Ago

We may use terms like "grounded" and terra firma to mean stability and consistency but geology...

Convergent Evolution Cheat Sheet Now 120 Million Years Old

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Quake Catcher Network - Citizen Science Tackles Seismology

Jul 15 2011 | comment(s)

Have a computer? Of course you do, or you aren't reading this article. That, and a little space on your floor can make you a 'citizen seismologist.'

The Quake Catcher Network is 6,000 tiny sensors, part of the densest networks of seismic sensors ever devoted to studying earthquakes, and it began rolling out in the San Francisco Bay Area where volunteer installers delivered 200 sensors to people who signed up to host them.

JediBot - Clone Wars Coming To A Computer Lab Near You

Jul 14 2011 | comment(s)

Students are often driven by baser concerns and robotics students even more so - hungry all of the time? Invent a robot that can cook. Need to take over the Republic? Build some robots that, oddly, use colored swords.

The Experimental Robotics course at Stanford gives students a chance to show off their automated ideas to classmates in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The course is a chance for students to take the math and programming skills they learned in the Intro to Robotics course and use them to direct a pre-fabricated robotic arm to perform a task in the real world.

How To Activate A Supermassive Black Hole

Jul 13 2011 | comment(s)

There were concerns among people who don't understand physics that the LHC might create a black hole and swallow the Earth. Obviously in an infinite Universe anything can happen but the precautionary principle taken to such extremes is really only used by groups like anti-environment crusaders, pro-environment crusaders and also anti-vaccine people, etc. In reality, the energy couldn't kill a fly (see Shut Down The LHC? I'd Rather Not Hurt A Fly).

'Artificial Molecules' -- Researchers Build Antenna For Light

Jul 11 2011 | comment(s)

Researchers are reporting the construction of what they term "artificial molecules" and say they can use the technology to engineer a new generation of nanomaterials that control and direct the energy absorbed from light.

Including an antenna that can build itself.

Traditional antennas increase the amount of an electromagnetic wave – such as a radio frequency – that is absorbed, and then funnel that energy to a circuit. These nanoantennas instead increased the amount of light that is absorbed and funneled it to a single site within their molecule-like complexes. This concept is already used in nature in light harvesting antennas, constituents of leaves that make photosynthesis efficient.

Leukemia And Lymphoma Breakthrough: Half-Matched Transplants May Mean Donors For All

Jul 08 2011 | comment(s)

A new finding may mean that nearly all leukemia and lymphoma patients in need of a transplant can find donors.

Results of two clinical trials show transplant results with half-matched bone marrow or umbilical cord blood are comparable to fully matched tissue, thanks in large part to the availability of effective anti-rejection drugs and special post-transplant chemotherapy.

Plans are under way for a four-year randomized trial for so-called haploidentical marrow or cord blood transplants in 380 patients to begin late this year or early next year. Many large medical centers, including Johns Hopkins, are expected to participate.

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