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Blog - Google Unveils First Chrome OS Computer: the Cr-48

A laptop running just a Web browser might sound a bit limited. But Google is betting you'll want one. One way to summarize Google's week so far is to say that it picked fights with two of the biggest computing companies on the planet. On Monday it unveiled a bookstore that competes with Amazon's Kindle line. Today it took the wraps off an attempt to displace Microsoft from the...


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Peer Pressures Could Strain the Web

A fight between two big Internet carriers, Comcast and Level 3, reveals how private business disputes might imperil the Internet. It's easy to assume that the Internet is unbreakable: that it's a collection of overlapping networks so resilient that universal connectivity is simply a given. It's not—as a battle between two large carriers of Internet traffic could soon remind...

Video - Molecular Moisturizing

Researchers improved on a technique called stimulated Raman spectroscopy to capture real-time images in the skin of living mice. To observe the absorption of trans-retinol, a common skin-care product, into a mouse’s skin, the team tuned two lasers to the frequency of a lipid in the drug and trained the lasers on the application site, yielding images in real time of the drug traveling down a hair...


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Blog - Superheavy Element 111 Found In Gold

Roentgenium-111 shouldn't exist on Earth. Now a group of nuclear physicists claims to have found an ultra-stable version of it in gold Take a look at the periodic table and you'll find that almost all the elements up to the atomic number 94 occur on Earth in relatively decent amounts. In addition, nuclear physicists can prepare samples of elements up to 104 because they form as...


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Blog - Magnetic Fields May Protect Exo-Earths After All

Astronomers fear that Earth-like planets around dwarf stars cannot be protected by magnetic fields. Now they may be forced to change their minds Back in September, astronomers in the US announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a red dwarf star in the constellation of Libra. This planet called Gliese 581 g is about 3 times the mass of Earth and makes an orbit around its star every...


MONDAY 29. NOVEMBER 2010


Blog - Social Media for Toddlers

Designers turn a classic children's toy into a medium for nonverbal status updates. Parents who want their children to succeed in life begin training them in the necessities of modern society at an early age. These include reading, socializing, and now, learning to use social media before they're even able to speak....


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Blog - How Far Do Mountain Bikers Travel?

Mountain bikers who want to measure the total vertical distance they travel during a ride are in for a shock. A new experiment shows there is no unique answer to this problem If you've ever tried mountain biking, you'll know that many factors influence the amount of work you do in the saddle, such as riding speed, terrain and weather. But perhaps most important is the size of the hills...


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Blog - How to Spot Secret Nuclear Reactors From Afar

French scientists unveil a plan to site antineutrino detectors off the coast of rogue nations suspected of operating clandestine nuclear reactors. One of the thornier problems facing the international community is to monitor the spread of nuclear technology and prevent it spreading to rogue regimes. This task falls to the International Atomic Energy Authority based in Vienna and it is by no...


MONDAY 22. NOVEMBER 2010


Blog - Why Life Is Physics, Not Chemistry

The idea that life boils down to chemistry is being usurped by a much more ambitious idea, says two of the world's leading biophysicists In the history of science, there are many examples of simple changes in perspective that lead to profound insights into the nature of the cosmos. The invention of the telescope is perhaps one example. Another is the realisation that chemical energy,...


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Blog - Absorbing Hydrogen Turns Palladium Into A Quasi Liquid

Palladium can absorb vast quantities of hydrogen but materials scientists have now discovered that this process has an extraordinary effect on the metal Here's a curious experiment involving palladium, the rare silvery metal well known for its ability to absorb hydrogen. When it is saturated, the ratio of hydrogen to palladium can be as high 0.6, which is why the metal is used to filter and...