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HEART/CONVENTIONAL WISDOM CHALLENGED Innovative soap technology AN INNOVATIVE soap technology that significantly reduces the attachment of bacteria to the skin has been developed by scientists at New Jersey. They reported their findings at the 102nd General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. ... Writing nanopatterns with DNA inks USING AN atomic force microscope tip as a pen and different single-stranded DNA as inks, scientists at Northwestern University have demonstrated a technique that could lead to the ultimate high-density gene chip because it takes gene chips to the ... Aquatic Mussels and improved adhesives NEW INSIGHTS into how the aquatic mussels bind tightly to rocks and all other surfaces could lead to surgical applications and improved adhesives, according to a news release issued by American Chemical Society. Jonathan Wilker, assistant ... Late-talking children often poor readers Toddlers with quite a slow vocabulary development are likely to have weaker skills on a wide range of language-related tasks into middle childhood compared to children of similar backgrounds whose vocabulary skills were well-developed by age two. PERSPECTIVE Extending fibre optic boundaries ONE OF the ways implemented to revolutionise telecommunications has been to increase massively the channel capacity of cable networks. Optical fibres provided a bounded transmission medium along which information is carried without distortion, ... Robotic system to make composite material The robotic manufacturing system has been used to reduce the production time of aircraft brake parts by one-third.
New science of small thingsThe demonstration by IBM earlier this week of the highest storage density ever achieved _ one trillion bits per square inch — underlines why nanotechnology may become the most exciting technology breakthrough of the new millennium. Anand Par thasarathy examines what it means for computer storage.
Early maturing, high-yielding tapiocaSCIENTISTS AT the Department of Vegetables, Horticultural College and Research Institute of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, have developed a new variety of tapioca. It is an early-maturing, high yielding tapioca ...
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