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Z Machine Melts Diamond To Puddle In Experiments On Capsule For Nuclea
Sandia's Z machine, by creating pressures more than 10 million times that of the atmosphere at sea level, has turned a diamond sheet into a pool of liquid, in an experiment to better understand the characteristics of diamond under the extreme pressure it would face when used as a capsule for a BB-sized pellet intended to fuel a nuclear fusion reaction. [Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. Smaller Heart Pump Bridges Time To Transplant For More Women
A small, implantable device that helps the heart pump blood works equally well for men and women but may benefit twice as many women awaiting transplants. New computer model could lead to safer stents
Researchers have developed a computer model that explains why those drugs (which include rapamycin and its analogs as well as paclitaxel) can accumulate in the arteries and cause blood clots. [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. Test Could Improve Detection Of Prion Disease In Humans
A highly sensitive post-mortem test could help scientists more accurately determine if a person died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a human neurological disorder caused by the same class of infectious proteins that trigger mad cow disease, according to a new study supported in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Researchers Probe Computer 'Commonsense Knowledge'
Challenge a simple pocket calculator at arithmetic and you may be left in the dust. But even the most sophisticated computer cannot match the reasoning of a youngster who looks outside, sees a fresh snowfall, and knows how to bundle up for the frosty outdoors. For artificial intelligence scientists, enabling computers to have such human-level intelligence requires a commonsense knowledge base that can evolve and learn new things. But it's an elusive goal. Light-sensing Cells In Retina Develop Before Vision
Investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that cells making up a non-visual system in the eye are in place and functioning long before the rods and cones that process light into vision. The discovery should help scientists learn more about the eye's non-visual functions such as the synchronization of the body's internal, circadian clock, the pupil's responses to light and light-regulated release of hormones. National Weather Service: Climate Prediction Center: Climate Assessmen
A collection of material providing a "technical review of global climate variations and their global impacts on seasonal and annual time scales."Includes topics such as north Atlantic hurricane seasons (NOAA forecasted "a 95%to 100%chance of an above-normal 2005 Atlantic hurricane season,"in August 2005), West and Midwest flooding, and heat and dryness in Europe. Also includes seasonal monitoring information. From the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). New Class Of Antibiotics Effective Against Drug-resistant Bacteria Dis
A peptide identified in a fungus found in northern European pine forests possesses as much power as penicillin or vancomycin, according to an international team of researchers including Michael Zasloff, M.D., Ph.D. of Georgetown University Medical Center and Robert Lehrer, M.D. of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, both highly respected antimicrobial peptides researchers. The researchers isolated "plectasin,"the first defensin ever found in fungi.
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