 Gigantic, chilly Jupiter has its peers across the universe Shining brightly in the south at nightfall this month is the planet Jupiter. Unmistakable to the naked eye, it’s the closest thing our solar system has to the giant worlds that astronomers are.. Reported by Boston.com 35 minutes ago. |
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L.A. Times 52 minutes ago |  High hopes for a malaria vaccine The makers of Mosquirix announce a trial involving thousands of children in Africa. They aim to seek marketing approval as soon as 2012 and have a vaccine that reduces infections by 80% by 2025.
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Telegraph.co.uk 54 minutes ago |  Lord Drayson: David Nutt's sacking has caused 'serious concern' in science world Lord Drayson the Science Minister has admitted that the sacking of Professor David Nutt has caused "serious concern" among the scientific community.
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VOA News 1 hour ago |  Mini Space Elevator Races for $900K Prize Robot climbs nearly one-kilometer into air along cable suspended from helicopter
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IndiaTimes 2 hours ago |  Frontiers of the future: In-gene-ous modifications Each cell contains nearly two metres of DNA molecule threads (that's about 20 million km in all). Each DNA molecule has about three billion pairs of four types of molecules called bases. The sequence..
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IndiaTimes 2 hours ago |  Frontiers of the future: Is there anybody out there? Radical new advances in the science of observation and measurement have led humankind to pin down some basics about our universe.
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IndiaTimes 2 hours ago |  Frontiers of the future: Living in a materials world Normal conductors, like copper wires, lose about 30 per cent of energy in transmission. But the problem with known superconductors is that they function only at very low temperatures, in the range of..
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IndiaTimes 2 hours ago |  Frontiers of the future: Making sense of the mind The average human brain weighs just 1.4 kg. Into that small mass are packed 100 billion neurons (nerve cells). Each neuron , in turn, has about 5,000 synapses (links) to other neurons through which a..
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IndiaTimes 2 hours ago |  Frontiers of the future: Nano tech, mega profits A human hair is roughly 80,000 nanometers wide. It's hard to even think on such an infinitesimal scale, leave alone engineering at the level of atoms and molecules.
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IndiaTimes 2 hours ago |  Frontiers of the future TOI-Crest explores seven frontiers of the future, which broadly capture the sweep of the mind-bending change that's coming.
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