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Sep 26, 2006 in Uncategorized
Neutrinos have mass — but only a little, and nobody knows exactly how much. Of the three flavors of neutrino (electron neutrino, muon neutrino, tau neutrino), the heaviest has at least one 10-millionth the electron’s mass and could have more than 10 times that much. But which flavor is the heaviest? That too is uncertain.
Sep 26, 2006 in Uncategorized
Using synthetic DNA formed into crosses, Y’s and T’s, Cornell researchers have created biocompatible, biodegradable, inexpensive hydrogels that can be easily formed into any desired shape for biomedical applications.
Sep 20, 2006 in Uncategorized
Recent theoretical results have overturned the long-held notion that information cannot escape from a black hole, explains Seth Lloyd. This should come in handy if those guys who are trying to create a black hole get it wrong.
Sep 14, 2006 in Uncategorized
OK, so you won’t be able to build a lunar module, but I did run across this collection of schematics for the Apollo Guidance Computer.
Sep 12, 2006 in Uncategorized
A week after President Bush revealed the existence of the CIA’s secret prison system and announced that “there are now no terrorists in the CIA program,” a new report says that terror suspects are still being held by the agency in secret locatons.
Sep 11, 2006 in Uncategorized
Researchers at Purdue University have created a simulation that uses scientific principles to study in detail what likely happened when a commercial airliner crashed into the World Trade Center’s North Tower on Sept. 11, 2001.
Sep 11, 2006 in Uncategorized
South Korea, the world’s most wired nation, continues to push the envelope on the speed of the broadband Internet and looks set to make 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) a commercial possibility.