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The Motley Fool
June 17, 2005
Jack Uldrich |
IBM: Outcomputing Its Competitors IBM's new 91-teraflop supercomputer, Watson Blue Gene, could give Big Blue an edge over the competition in the life science, IT, and materials science sectors.   |
Technology Research News
June 15, 2005
Kimberly Patch |
DNA Machine Links Molecules Researchers have fashioned a nanomechanical device from DNA that can be programmed to align a series of molecules and fuse them together. The technique could potentially be used to put together designer polymers, encrypt information, and carry out computations. |
Science News
June 11, 2005
Christen Brownlee |
Calories May Not Count in Life Extension A team of researchers has shown in fruit flies that shifting a diet's relative amounts of nutrients, such as carbohydrates, protein, and fat, while only modestly cutting calories, extends life span just as much as a drastic calorie cut does. |
Nutra Solutions
June 1, 2005 |
The Alpha of Omegas in Plants Scientists with Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) have developed plants that produce DHA, an omega-3 oil vital for human health and normally found only in fish sources. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
May 1, 2005
L.J. Sellers |
It's All About Immunity Hollis-Eden is developing drugs that help the body fight foreign attackers -- including radiation. Other companies are in competition to bring new autoimmune drugs to the market, but Hollis-Eden believes its compounds will be significantly more effective |
InternetNews
June 6, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Your Brain on Blue Gene IBM researchers and scientists in Switzerland will create a digital 3D model of the brain with Blue Gene. |
Reason
June 2005
Jacob Sullum |
Suing Sodium A lawsuit filed in February demands that the FDA treat salt as an additive instead of an ingredient, a step that would make it possible to impose reductions in salt content on food manufacturers. But is it necessary from a health standpoint? |
Reason
June 2005
Jacob Sullum |
Psychedelic Revival Psychedelic research is returning to Harvard, where psychiatrist John Halpern plans to give MDMA (a.k.a. Ecstasy) to late-stage cancer patients to relieve their anxiety and to help them come to terms with death. |
Reason
June 2005
Julian Sanchez |
Soundbite: Darwinian Markets In The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life, University of Toulouse economist Paul Seabright explains how biological dispositions evolved to create the "great experiment" of civilization. Here's an interview. |
Geotimes
June 2005
Megan Sever |
Odd Microbes at Yellowstone Researchers recently found in Yellowstone National Park what could provide clues to finding life on other planets: a thin layer of living and fossilized microbes just beneath a rock's surface. |
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