'The photon force is with us': Harnessing light to drive nanomachines from PhysOrg.com
Science fiction writers have long envisioned sailing a spacecraft by the optical force of the sun's light. But, the forces of sunlight are too weak to fill even the oversized sails that have been tried. Now a team led by researchers at the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science has shown that the force of light indeed can be harnessed to drive machines — when the process is scaled to nano-proportions.
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2008-11-26
'The photon force is with us': Harnessing light to drive nanomachines
Researchers identify a potentially universal mechanism of aging
Researchers identify a potentially universal mechanism of aging from PhysOrg.com
Like our current financial crisis, the aging process might also be a product excessive deregulation. Researchers have discovered that DNA damage decreases a cell's ability to regulate which genes are turned on and off in particular settings. This mechanism, which applies both to fungus and to us, might represent a universal culprit for aging.
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2008-11-20
How Time-Traveling Could Affect Quantum Computing
How Time-Traveling Could Affect Quantum Computing from PhysOrg.com
(PhysOrg.com) -- If space-time were constructed in such a way that you could travel back in time, it would create some pretty strange effects. One of these oddities, as many people know, is the “grandfather paradox.” Here, a person travels back in time to kill their grandfather before the person’s father is born, thus preventing their own birth.
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2008-11-11
New laser method reproduces art masterworks to protein patterns
New laser method reproduces art masterworks to protein patterns from PhysOrg.com
Canadian researchers have created a new protein patterning technique that's enabled them to reproduce complex cellular environments and a miniature version of a masterpiece painting. According to a new study published in the journal Lab on a Chip, scientists from Université de Montréal, the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre, McGill University and the Montreal Neurological Institute have developed a laser technology that can mimic the protein patterns that surround cells in vivo and that could lead to great advances in neuroscience.
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2008-11-08
U.S. military researchers grow new limbs, organs
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American military researchers say they have unlocked the secret to regrowing limbs and recreating organs in humans who have sustained major injuries.
Using "nanoscaffolding," the researchers have regrown a man's fingertip and the internal organs of several test subjects.
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