First Internet-Connected Pacemaker Successfully Implanted
The first American to be implanted with a wireless pacemaker is now walking happily around while the device communicates remotely with her doctor. Carol Kasyjanski of New…
View ArticlePerseid Meteor Shower 2009: Don’t Miss Tonight’s Show
As tonight bleeds into tomorrow morning, the earth will be hurtling through a long skein of dust and rocks. Lucky for us, the result of our bombardment will not be…
View ArticleDesignYourDorm Brings College Move-In Day Online With 3-D Modeling
For the nervous new freshmen heading to college this fall (and some bitter 25 year olds looking to travel back in time) a new website, DesignYourDorm offers the chance to…
View ArticleStruggles Making Algae Biofuel Lead To A Fishy Solution
It’s been a few years since the race to make biofuel from algae really heated up. Today more than 50 companies are trying to find a way to affordably squeeze oil from slime,…
View ArticleCustom-Made Metamaterials Could Show Scientists a Tabletop Big Bang
For all the visualizations, artist's renderings and animations of the birth of our universe, it is still exceedingly hard to imagine the Big Bang: from nothing emerges…
View ArticleWarming Oceans May Cause the Earth to Tilt
Human activity has widely affected our planet, reshaping surfaces, moving or extinguishing species, and warming the air and water. Now scientists say our reach has been…
View ArticleScientists Morph Human Skin Cells Into Retinal Cells
The retina is a lush layered field of tissue lining the back of the eye, a complex mix of specialized cells that serve as a transfer station where light signals are absorbed…
View ArticleLegos Offer Researchers a Big Picture of Nanoscale Science
Whoever thinks science isn't fun must have never heard of Legos. The colorful construction toy has been used before as a cellular teaching tool. But these days, even…
View ArticleMagic Nanoparticle Ink Prints Multicolor Images In an Instant
Traditional color printing -- whether done with an inkjet, laser or silkscreen -- requires a page to be laid out with several different inks in various colors to produce a…
View ArticleFYI: How Does Nuclear Radiation Do Its Damage?
Ionizing radiation—the kind that minerals, atom bombs and nuclear reactors emit—does one main thing to the human body: it weakens and breaks up DNA, either damaging cells…
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