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When Tim Brom 07’ set out to build a budget supercomputer with Calvin computer science professor Joel Adams, he didn’t know the product of his efforts might end up in his checked baggage headed for England.

A Swiss team of researchers gained a robot-like competition of
football thanks to a device of a few microns. Of this invention could emerge of
new applications, in particular in

BioMicroRobotics.

Organized for the first time this year, Nanogram league, foot ballistic competition of RoboCup
2007, devoted the victory of a Swiss robot measuring just 300 microns out of 300. To carry it, the researcher Dominic Frutiger of the ETH Zurich Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS)

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have found that nutrients in red wine may help reduce the risk of developing prostate cancer.

The reported sighting of a Yangtze River dolphin, or Baiji, means there is still a chance for people to take further action and protect the cetaceans in the Yangtze from extinction, according to World Wildlife Fund.

It has been in the news for years about how secondhand smoke is a health threat to nonsmokers. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that secondhand smoke is attributed with killing thousands of adult nonsmokers annually.

Seeing without seeing. Even if you’ve seen this beore, it’s worth seeing again. The following link is to a video of two teams (white and black) playing a ball game. Your task is to watch the white team and carefully count how many times they pass the ball (concentration is important).

Scientists at the University of Rochester and the J. Craig Venter Institute have discovered a copy of the genome of a bacterial parasite residing inside the genome of its host species. That’s weird.

Physicians might want to be extra careful about how they treat HIV-infected patients —not just in the clinical sense but in the way they behave toward them.

Scientists already considered the Chinese Flussdelfin Baiji become extinct. Surprisingly in the Jangtse now nevertheless again one was sighted.

The Centers for Disease Control report that nearly 25 million women are infected with some form of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Of those, more than three million are thought to have one of the four strains known to cause cases of cervical cancer and genital warts.

A drug that shuts down a critical cell-signaling pathway in the most common and aggressive type of adult brain cancer successfully kills cancer stem cells thought to fuel tumor growth and help cancers evade drug and radiation therapy, a Johns Hopkins study shows.

A stretcher races through the entrance of a busy hospital. The car-accident victim lies on top and grimaces in pain. While surface injuries looks gruesome, the real medical danger is invisible – internal organ damage caused by being crushed against the steering wheel.

The Spallation Neutron Source, the Department of Energy’s $1.4 billion research facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has established a new record as the world’s most powerful accelerator based source of neutrons for scientific research.

Cosmology: The strength of gravity is variable and depends on the energy level of the nucleons relative to space itself (their “space energy level”). At these higher energy levels their inertial mass is greater, therefore their gravitational force would also be greater. Rather then adding additional dark matter – At higher space energy levels the strength of the ordinary matter is strong enough to hold the outlying stars of the galaxy in their proper place.

Using restricted-access Census data, a new study examines a quarter-million households on a block-by-block basis to yield new results about the correlation between household attributes and school quality. The researchers find that, conditional on income, households prefer to self-segregate on the basis of both race and education.

Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have found bonobos and chimpanzees use manual gestures of their hands, feet and limbs more flexibly than they do facial expressions and vocalizations, further supporting the evolution of human language began with gestures as the gestural origin hypothesis of language suggests.

A new method for fighting skin wrinkles has been developed at the Hebrew University Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences.

Inexpensive pill box organizers are an easy, successful, and cost-effective tool to help patients take their medications as prescribed, according to a new study of low-income urban residents living with HIV infection by authors from the Berkeley School of Public Health and the University of California, San Francisco.

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has detected enough water vapor to fill the oceans on Earth five times inside the collapsing nest of a forming star system.

Administering inhaled nitric oxide (NO) during surgery helps protect liver transplant patients from organ failure, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).