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The Round Reading Room Comes to an End
This 1997 article appeared on the occasion of the closure of the British Library's Round Reading Room. The article describes how the room came to be through the work of "Antonio Panizzi, an Italian revolutionary who had been forced to flee his native Modena for permanent exile in England, [who] was made keeper of printed books and then, in 1856, principal librarian"and who designed the space. From The New York Times. Seeing Blue: Fish Vision Discovery Makes Waves In Evolutionary Biology
Researchers have identified the first fish known to have switched from ultraviolet vision to violet vision, or the ability to see blue light. The discovery is also the first example of an animal deleting a molecule to change its visual spectrum. The findings on scabbardfish link molecular evolution to functional changes and the possible environmental factors driving them. Optical Technique For Controlling Electron Spins In Quantum Dot Ensemb
Scientists are closer to developing novel devices for optics-based quantum computing and quantum information processing, as a result of a breakthrough in understanding how to make all the spins in an ensemble of quantum dots identical. Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
The site about this Iowa museum and archive features photos and information about Hoover and his wife Lou Henry Hoover (such as Hoover's daily calendar for 1917 through 1964, and information about "Hoover-ball ... a combination of tennis, volleyball and medicine ball"), images of current and past exhibits, and more. Also includes information about Rose Wilder Lane (the first biographer of Herbert Hoover) and her mother, children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder. Remote-control Closed System Invented For Inserting Radio-active Atoms
A hands-off process for filling fullerenes with radioactive material is being tested to see if it will produce multi-modality material for better imaging and targeting of treatment of brain tumors. Nanoscientists Provide New Picture Of Semiconductor Material
For almost a decade, scientists thought they understood the surface structure of cubic gallium nitride, a promising new crystalline semiconductor. Research by an interdisciplinary team of nanoscientists from Ohio University and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, however, turns that idea on its head. The 'Upstairs/Downstairs' Mystery Of Cell Suicide Is Burdened By Too M
The story of how mitochondria are recruited during times of stress to choreograph apoptosis -- the cell's dance of death -- is a story that fails to tell which particular set of steps the cells use most often, according to investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology (San Diego, CA). Rensselaer Researchers Develop Heat Spreader For Epileptic Seizure Tre
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers are developing a tiny, highly efficient heat spreader to be used in a new device to be implanted in the brain of patients who suffer from severe epileptic seizures. The implant device is designed to detect and arrest epileptic seizures as they begin by cooling a small region of the brain, thereby effectively blocking the erratic electrical activity. Despite Causes Of Lupus Proving Complex, Critical 'Checkpoint' Suggest
Scientists at The Rockefeller University have determined that the autoimmune disease lupus results from a combination of genetics that likely varies from person to person, and that a common "gatekeeper"gene called FCRgIIB is critical to the prevention of this devastating disease. Perils of Vernacular Video
A pundit predicts mayhem as vid-cams proliferate in the hands of the masses, from "music-video-crazed digital cooperatives" to "hordes of Sunday video artists." In Beyond the Beyond.
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