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Structure and function of Cas9 protein have been revealed and will enable...
Two teams worked closely to reveal the structural details of the Cas9 complex and to test their functional significance. Their efforts revealed a division of labor within the Cas9 complex. The...
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Oxford Nanopore delivers on promised MinION gene reader that is about the...
Nanopore sensing technology can be miniaturised into a portable device for electronic single molecule sensing. This is possible because of recent advances made by Oxford Nanopore in using new polymers...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 196
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 196 is up at the Energy Reality Project.Read more »
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Superthin Gallium Arsenide solar power could displace silicon solar power as...
The world has the capacity to manufacture over 40 Gigawatts of solar panels each year, the vast majority of them silicon-based. And it's easy to see why: our expertise with processing the material has...
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Halfway from 1990 to 2038
We are now halfway from 1990 to 2038.1990Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany, the separation of Namibia from South Africa, Desert Shield, the formal beginning of the Human...
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Google in talks to bring Google Fiber to 34 cities in 9 metro areas
Google Fiber — Internet that’s up to 100 times faster than basic broadband has started early discussions with 34 cities in 9 metro areas around the United States to explore what it would take to bring...
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pCell wireless broadband with cubic centimeter sized cells around antennas...
Steve Perlman, the serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur who brought us OnLive and WebTV, has announced a new wireless broadband technology called pCell.The technology will enable full-speed wireless...
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Tesla Motors CTO reveals the secrets of their successful electric car
Tesla Motors CTO revealed some key reasons for their successful electric car.* Superchargers and integrated manufacturing.Superchargers allow us to charge the Model S more than twice as fast as other...
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Facebook paid the value of all NBA teams for WhatsApp
Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion ($4 billion cash, $12 billion stock, $3 billion in restricted stock grants that vest over 4 years. Whatsapp has 55 employees. The average NBA franchise is worth...
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Oil sands to lead Canadian construction activity
Canada's oil sands production is expected to double to 3.8 million barrels per day by 2025. New oil sands expansion is expected to start in 2016 and it will expand capacity by 50% when these projects...
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Carnival of Space 341
The Carnival of Space 341 is up at Phototospace.The Meridiani Journal - New evidence for possible flowing water on MarsRecurring slope lineae” (RSL) at Palikir Crater on Mars. Click for larger version....
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Micro and Nano delivery platforms can change the way we administer therapy to...
Tejal Desai and researchers at University of California, San Francisco describe current nano- and microfabrication techniques for creating drug delivery devices. They first review the main...
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New source of fresh neurons found in human brains
Last year Jonas Frisén of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and his colleagues found that neurogenesis occurs in the hippocampi of the human brain. These structures are crucial for memory...
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Atomtronic Progress - Bose Einstein condensate can display memory
While pursuing the goal of turning a cloud of ultracold atoms into a completely new kind of circuit element, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated...
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Intelligent Alien Life Could Be Found by 2040
SETI researcher is predicting good odds for detection of alien life by 2040 By 2040 or so, astronomers will have scanned enough star systems to give themselves a great shot of discovering...
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Continuing improvement in oil well fracturing methods increases production...
Schlumberger announced the introduction of the BroadBand Sequence* fracturing technique, which enables sequential stimulation of perforation clusters in wells drilled in unconventional reservoirs. This...
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China’s bullet trains facilitate market integration and mitigate the cost of...
By 2015 China plans to extend the network to 19,000 kilometers (about 11,800 miles), with a mixture of new and existing infrastructure. On the dedicated high-speed lines, trains can exceed 300km/h...
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Tokyo and Seoul show that areas around Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong will...
South Korea tried to control the size of Seoul half a century ago. In Seoul's first Basic Urban Plan, in 1966, its population was expected to grow from three to five million by 1985. But it hit that...
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Cheap, low power, high resolution 3D LIDAR chips that eliminate mechanical...
A new military LIDAR chip shows promise for faster and more precise aerial mapping—doing in minutes what used to take day. In 2012, 20 hours of helicopter flight time were needed to map 370 square...
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Snapshot of fast changing situation in the Ukraine, Russia's interest and a...
Abandoned by his own guards and reviled across the Ukrainian capital but still determined to recover his shredded authority, President Viktor F. Yanukovych fled Kiev on Saturday to denounce what he...
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