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Nine E-Medicine Stocks

Our list of publicly traded companies that could benefit from the e-medicine revolution includes IBM and WebMD. Medicine is still largely a cottage industry. Most doctors work in small practices where records are kept on paper. But now technology is starting to reshape this industry. The spread of electronic patient records, heavily promoted by government subsidies, will energize companies in such...


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Blog - How Much Does Betelgeuse Weigh?

Astronomers have put a new technique for measuring stellar mass through its paces by studying Orion's red supergiant Betelgeuse is one of the brightest and most easily recognisable stars in the night sky. It sits in the constellation of Orion and is visibly red. That's because Betelgeuse is a luminous, red supergiant about 650 light years away....


THURSDAY 22. SEPTEMBER 2011



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Blog - First Quantum Computer With Quantum CPU And Separate Quantum RAM

Computer scientists have built a superconducting number cruncher with a Von Neumann architecture that paves the way for a new era of quantum computation Back in 1946, the world's first general purpose electronic computer was switched on at the University of Pennsylvania. The huge processing power of ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) stunned the world, or at least the few...


TUESDAY 20. SEPTEMBER 2011


Blog - Artificial Fingerprints Help Robots Distinguish Shapes

Fingerprints are signal processors for touch, enhancing the way we sense the world. Now robots have access to the same trick In recent years, biomechanical engineers have discovered that fingerprints don't just improve grip, they also perform a delicate type of signal processing. The ridges modify vibrations in the skin in a way that best allows human nerve endings to receive them and this...


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Researchers Announce a Breakthrough on HIV/AIDS Treatment

A technique that alters T cells has been shown to reduce the amount of virus in infected people. For the first time, researchers have shown that a cell-based therapy for HIV/AIDS can reduce the amount of virus in infected people. The breakthrough—big news for researchers, who have struggled for decades to create vaccines and cell-based therapies for HIV—was announced on Sunday at the...


SATURDAY 17. SEPTEMBER 2011