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Growing Heart Muscle: Rapid 3-D Cell-growth Technique Produces Pulsing
It looks, contracts and responds almost like natural heart muscle -- even though it was grown in the lab. And it brings scientists another step closer to the goal of creating replacement parts for damaged human hearts. A new paper describes a new way to grow bioengineered heart muscle, or BEHM, that acts more like natural muscle than ever before achieved. March Of The Giant Penguins: Prehistoric Equatorial Penguins Reached 5
Two heretofore undiscovered penguin species -- one of which was over 5 feet tall -- reached equatorial regions tens of millions of years earlier than expected and during a period when the earth was much warmer than it is now. Cell's Tiny Power Source Critical For Synapse Function
Mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside all plant and animal cells, play a critical role in the health and well-being of synapses, neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Center for Learning and Memory report in the Dec. 17 issue of the journal Cell. [Odd] A Romanian couple has named their son Yahoo as a sign of gratitu
Daily Libertatea said on Thursday Cornelia and Nonu Dragoman, both from Transylvania, met and decided they were meant for each other following a three-month relationship over the net.They married and had a baby this Christmas, whom they decided to name after one of the worldwide web's most popular portals."We named him Lucian Yahoo after my father and the net, the main beacon of my life,"Cornelia Dragoman was quoted as saying. Best of Wired Test 2007: Surf, Play Video andAudio, Record TV
The 605 is like all the players on our Test pages rolled into one: Wi-Fi web surfing, audio and video play, a pocket DVR, games and more -- all on a dazzling display with minimal button clutter and easy menu control. Mapping the Pacific Coast: Coronado to Lewis and Clark, the Quivira Co
Companion to an exhibition of "maps, books and illustrations, dated 1544 through 1802, of the west coast of North America."View annotated map images (some with audio clips) on topics such as early explorers, California as an island, secret Russian exploration in the Pacific, Captain James Cook's voyages to the north Pacific, and overland to the Pacific in the late 1700s. From the Sonoma County (California) Museum and a California winery. Magnetic Snakes Create Water Current
Physicists have found that magnetic particles suspended in water and subjected to an alternating magnetic field will form snake-shaped structures that can control the flow of the surrounding fluid. Current incarnations of the magnetic snake are a few centimeters long, but the team envisions much smaller versions as pumps to manipulate liquids on microscopic scales or precursors for next-generation magnetic recording media in future computers. California Computer Scientists Double Volume Of Data In NIH Biotech Re
In the journal Genome Research, a group led by UCSD reports its use of a very fast and relatively low-cost computational tool to 'crunch' the world's largest repository of genotypes to predict their haplotypes roughly 1,000 times faster than the prevailing technology until now. Their findings are featured in a special issue of the journal Genome Research, published today. [Funny] A referee has sent himself off in an English amateur league ma
Andy Wain had to abandon the Sunday league match between Peterborough North End and a Royal Mail side in the 63rd minute after throwing down his whistle and marching up to confront North End's keeper. Study May Expand Applied Benefits Of Super-hard Ceramics
A discovery reported in the August 5 issue of Science could speed the design of materials that approach the hardness of diamond yet remain supple enough to be worked like metal.
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