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1 min ago | Science Daily

Biophysicists measure mechanism that determines fate of living cells

Cells in the human body do not function in isolation. Living cells rely on communication with their environment -- neighboring cells and the surrounding matrix -- to activate a wide range of cellular functions, including reproduction of new cells, differentiation of stem cells into distinct cell types, cell adhesion, and migration of white blood ... (more)

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Related Topix: University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL, Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Immunology, Biology, Science

4 hrs ago | SFGate

Three Stories About Steve Jobs, Einstein, And Ben Franklin Prove That Creative Beats Smart

One is Steve Jobs' 2005 address to Stanford's graduating class, where he famously used three stories to memorably define his life.

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Related Topix: Books, Steve Jobs, Pomona College, Science

8 hrs ago | The Economist

The future of physics: Beyond the numbers

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10 hrs ago | The Guardian

Eric Weinstein might just have found the answer to physics' problems | Marcus du Sautoy

A physicist claims to have formulated a mathematical theory that explains why the universe works the way it does - and it feels like 'the answer' Eric Weinstein's theory is the first major challenge to the validity of Albert Einstein's Field Equations.

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Related Topix: Science, Mathematics

10 hrs ago | R & D

Crystals melt when they're cooled

Growing thin films out of nanoparticles in ordered, crystalline sheets, to make anything from microelectronic components to solar cells, would be a boon for materials researchers, but the physics is tricky because particles of that size don't form crystals the way individual atoms do.

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Related Topix: Science, Science / Technology, Nanotechnology

12 hrs ago | CiteULike

Precedence and freedom in quantum physics

A new interpretation of quantum mechanics is proposed according to which precedence, freedom and novelty play central roles.

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Related Topix: Science

13 hrs ago | The Advertiser Democrat

What I've Learned

Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost was born on November 27, 1715 in Germany. He went to college - not immediately, he was a baby when he was born - he went to college to study theology, but soon switched to medicine.

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Related Topix: Science, Opinion

17 hrs ago | MediLexicon

Advance Made In Nanotech Gene Sequencing Technique

The allure of personalized medicine has made new, more efficient ways of sequencing genes a top research priority.

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Related Topix: University of Pennsylvania, Science, Astronomy, Brown University, Columbia University, Health

Wed May 22, 2013

Nature

Voyager: Outward bound

The 44 notebooks lined up neatly in Ed Stone's office span just half a metre of shelf space.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, Pasadena, CA, Science

SPACE.com

Warp Drive and 'Star Trek': Physics of Future Space Travel

Another "Star Trek" film just hit the screen - featuring the venerable Starship Enterprise.

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Related Topix: Science, us Travel, Travel, Science / Technology, Space

US Tech

Archive

The latest twist in the counterfeit war - and make no mistake, it is a war - has been an August 2012, notification posted by DLA DIBBs board that all FSC 5962 product sold directly to DLA would require DNA marking beginning November ... Juki Corporation was founded in December 1938 when approximately 900 machinery manufacturers in Tokyo invested in ... (more)

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Related Topix: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Science, France, World News, Albuquerque, NM, Marketing

Space Ref

The Future of the Sun

A team of astronomers led by Jose Dias do Nascimento has found the farthest known solar twin in the Milky Way Galaxy -- CoRoT Sol 1, which has about the same mass and chemical composition as the Sun.

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Related Topix: Astronomy, Science, Brazil, World News

NatureNews

Russian academy awaits new head

From czarist times to the days of perestroika, the Russian Academy of Sciences was the pillar of the nation's scholarship, boasting the country's best scientists as members.

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Related Topix: Piscataway, NJ, Science, Vladimir Putin

Newswise

Researchers Explain Magnetic Field Misbehavior in Solar Flares: The Culprit Is Turbulence

When a solar flare filled with charged particles erupts from the sun, its magnetic fields sometime break a widely accepted rule of physics.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Solarflares, Natural Disasters, Solar Flare, Science, Computers, Mathematics, Computer Science

Science Daily

Detecting mirror molecules: New technique reliably tells left-handed...

As described in a paper in Nature , post-doctoral researcher David Patterson, Professor of Physics John Doyle and Dr.

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Related Topix: Chemistry, Science, World News, Germany,

Science, Industry and Business

Soft Matter Offers New Ways to Study How Materials Arrange

A fried breakfast food popular in Spain provided the inspiration for the development of doughnut-shaped droplets that may provide scientists with a new approach for studying fundamental issues in physics, mathematics and materials.

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Related Topix: Mathematics, Science, Georgia Tech

New Scientist

String theory may limit space brain threat

LEGIONS of disembodied brains floating in deep space threaten to undermine our understanding of the universe.

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Related Topix: Science, Berkeley, CA, UC Berkeley, Science / Technology

AdelaideNow...

Satellite company eyes Adelaide for expansion

AUSTRALIA'S most advanced commercial satellite developer has put South Australia at the heart of its ambitions outlining visions of engineers based at Mawson Lakes flying its constellation of satellites.

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Related Topix: Australia, Oceania, World News, Travel, Pacific Travel, Australia Travel, South Australia, Australia Travel, Science / Technology, Space, Science

EERE Network News

Ernest Moniz Sworn in as New Secretary of Energy

Ernest Moniz on May 21 was sworn in as the new energy secretary, after being unanimously confirmed on May 16 by the U.S. Senate.

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Related Topix: Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Science Daily

New method for tailoring optical processors

The breakthrough by a team of theoretical and applied physicists and engineers at Rice's Laboratory for Nanophotonics is described this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, Rice University, Nanotechnology, Science