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Scientists Demonstrate World's Fastest Graphene Transistor
Posted on February 07, 2010 at 11:54:24 am
In a just-published paper in the magazine Science, IBM researchers demonstrated a radio-frequency graphene transistor with the highest cut-off frequency achieved so far for any graphene device -- 100 billion cycles/second (100 GigaHertz).

NASA, GM Take Giant Leap in Robotic Technology
Posted on February 07, 2010 at 11:41:57 am
NASA and General Motors are working together to accelerate development of the next generation of robots and related technologies for use in the automotive and aerospace industries.

Physicists Kill Cancer With 'Nanobubbles'
Posted on February 05, 2010 at 08:55:54 am
Using lasers and nanoparticles, scientists at Rice University have discovered a new technique for singling out individual diseased cells and destroying them with tiny explosions.

DNA Testing on 2,000-Year-Old Bones in Italy Reveal East Asian Ancestry
Posted on February 04, 2010 at 08:09:23 pm
Researchers excavating an ancient Roman cemetery made a surprising discovery when they extracted ancient mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from one of the skeletons buried at the site: the 2,000-year-old bones revealed a maternal East Asian ancestry.

Magnetic Nanoparticles Show Promise for Combating Human Cancer
Posted on February 04, 2010 at 08:06:41 pm
Scientists at Georgia Tech and the Ovarian Cancer Institute have further developed a potential new treatment against cancer that uses magnetic nanoparticles to attach to cancer cells, removing them from the body.

Merging Galaxies Create a Binary Quasar
Posted on February 04, 2010 at 08:44:06 am
Astronomers have found the first clear evidence of a binary quasar within a pair of actively merging galaxies.

Astronomers Find Rare Beast by New Means
Posted on February 03, 2010 at 06:12:09 pm
For the first time, astronomers have found a supernova explosion with properties similiar to a gamma-ray burst, but without seeing any gamma rays from it.

Ancient Crocodile Relative: Giant Snake's Food
Posted on February 03, 2010 at 05:56:02 pm
A 60-million-year-old relative of crocodiles described recently by University of Florida researchers in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology was likely a food source for Titanoboa, the largest snake the world has ever known.

Forests Are Growing Faster
Posted on February 03, 2010 at 09:40:22 am
A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found evidence that forests in the Eastern United States are growing faster than they have in the past 225 years. The study offers a rare look at how an ecosystem is responding to clim

Fossils Show Earliest Animal Trails
Posted on February 03, 2010 at 09:34:49 am
Trails found in rocks dating back 565 million years are thought to be the earliest evidence of animal locomotion ever found.


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