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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. Novel 3-D Cell Culture Model Shows Selective Tumor Uptake Of Nanoparti
A novel cell culture model consisting of an aggregate of brain tumor cells growing on normal thin slices of brain tissue has been developed to investigate tumor properties and therapy. The tumor cells showed a similar invasion pattern to that seen when growing in patients. When nanoparticles made from a new type of polymer were added to the co-culture, the nanoparticles were taken up more by the tumor cells than the normal brain cells. Male Semen is Redundant
You’ve seen the kind of thing: “Warehouse Razed to the Ground in Fire”, as if razing didn’t already mean the building was levelled. Worse, “Balloon Ascends Up into the Air”, ascending down is very difficult, simultaneously, at the same time, if not impossible; so too is descending up.However, the award for the most redundantly tautological [...] Tracking Audis With RFID
Audi will use RFID tags through production and delivery of its TT sports car for "quality-assurance." But how are the embedded tags used over a car's lifetime? Plus: BMW fields a remote-control convertible top. In Autopia. Download Piaf, Go to Jail
The French may be about to impose stiff penalties for illegally downloading copyright-protected files. Bruce Gain reports from Paris. Are Pets Good For You?
Owning a pet is linked to health and wellbeing, particularly for older people and patients recovering from major illness, say researchers in this week's British Medical Journal.About half of households in the United Kingdom own pets and over 90 percent of pet owners regard their pet as a valued family member. The Brain Needs The Middle Ear To Track Depth
When you jaywalk, your ability to keep track of that oncoming truck despite your constantly changing position can be a lifesaver. But scientists do not understand how such constant updating of depth and distance takes place, suspecting that the brain receives information not just from the eye but also from the motion-detecting vestibular system in the middle ear. Yellowstone Volcano Inflating With Molten Rock At Record Rate
The Yellowstone 'supervolcano'rose at a record rate since mid-2004, likely because a Los Angeles-sized, pancake-shaped blob of molten rock was injected 6 miles beneath the slumbering giant, scientists report in Science. Pacemakers And Defibrillators For The Survival Of Patients Suffering F
Studies recently carried out at the University Hospital of the University of Navarra show that cardiac resynchronisation therapy using pacemakers and defibrillators improves the survival and quality of life of patients suffering from heart insufficiency and disorders of the blood-flow system. University Of Manchester Develops Vision Chip For New Generation Of 'H
The University of Manchester is to help develop a new generation of robots with 'human' instincts. The REVERB project, which involves BAE Systems and a number of other leading UK Universities, is aimed at developing new technologies which will enable robots to respond to events and multi-task in similar ways to humans and animals. As part of the project The University of Manchester will develop a state of the art Vision Chip.
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