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Uniqueness of handwriting validated Hydrogen found to transmit magnetism Magnetic properties of hydrogen were confirmed by measurements of the new magnetic oxide material using muons Eco-friendly ways to make microchips UNIVERSITY OF Arizona engineers are developing new, eco-friendly processes for making microchips. These processes soon will be used to build faster, smaller and sophisticated electronics at lower cost, says the university's press release. ... 
`Zapping' eliminates irregular heart beatNOW A ``smart'' technology is being used by heart experts to target and destroy cells that trigger the irregular heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation, according to a report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart ... Light helps to detect breast cancer spread SURGEONS OF the future may use light to tell whether breast cancer has spread, says clinical research fellow Andrew Lee at a news briefing at the 3rd European Breast Cancer Conference in Barcelona. Optical detection of breast cancer is an ... Fighting cataract with tea SCIENTISTS HAVE found that tea may help prevent cataract, which accounts for over 42 per cent of blindness around the world. Tea, both green and black, is a rich source of antioxidants called flavanoids which are ten to 20-times more powerful ... Hair-like nanotubes produced RESEARCHERS HAVE created a simplified method for making long, continuous, hair-like strands of carbon nanotubes that are as much as eight inches in length.. This breakthrough, reported in the journal Science, is a first step toward ... Leading lights ADVANCED LEDs may one day change colour at the flick of a switch, thanks to a discovery that should make it easier to control the quantum particles that emit light in semiconductors. Researchers have long thought that these particles, known as ... New insight into basic mechanism of evolution THE BASIC cellular machinery that generates the genetic diversity central to evolution does not operate quite the way scientists have thought, says a team of Iowa State University plant scientists. Their 10-year investigation of recombination ... Artificial hand with intelligence A LIGHTWEIGHT `intelligent hand' has been devised by British engineers. Two United Kingdom cybernetic engineers have spent years devising the mechanical replacement to develop a prosthesis that looks and behaves as a human hand according to ...
IF YOU want broadband Internet access but can't get your telephone or cable company to provide it, a technology called non-line-of-sight (NLOS) wireless may be just right says a press release copyrighted by the The Institute of Electrical and ... Making encrypted messages secure COULD THE battle between code-makers and code-breakers be ending? Physicists are putting the finishing touches to a new way of encrypting messages that is more secure than any past cipher. The technique, known as quantum cryptography, combines ...
FREDERICK SODDY was born in Brighton, England, the son of a merchant. He aspired to be a scientist from an early age: in this ambition, he was encouraged by his science master who recommended him to study chemistry at Oxford. He was a student in ...
Managing rice brown plant hopperA FUNGAL pathogen that infects the dreaded rice pest rice brown plant hopper (BPH) has been isolated and used as an effective bio-pesticide to control and manage the scourge by an entomologist Prof. P. Narayanasamy of the department of ...
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