Imagine a world where the internet is so fast that personal data storage units are obsolete, and HD films can be downloaded in seconds. With the switching on of the CERN particle accelerator this year, technology has taken one step closer to that reality.
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Scientists claim they have cured advanced skin cancer for the first time using the patient’s own cells cloned outside the body. The 52-year-old man involved was free of melanoma two years after treatment. US researchers took cancer-fighting immune cells, made five billion copies, then put them all back.
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In case you didn’t know it, Thomas Edison’s invention, in use for more than 100 years to illuminate virtually everything, is quickly heading for the exits. What will eventually take its place is the light-emitting diode (L.E.D.) bulb, made up of tiny light sources the size of a head of a pin that use a fraction of a regular light bulb’s electricity
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Robots are close to being able to replicate themselves. Machines are under development that can digest plants, like we do, heal themselves and even poo.
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World leaders meet on global food crisis
04-Jun-08
World leaders open a conference on the global food crisis on Tuesday, with human rights activists and the World Bank demanding action to curb soaring prices that are pushing an estimated 100 million people into hunger.
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Quantum Systems Could Flout Physics Law
04-Jun-08
Scientists showed that if the energy of these systems is measured repeatedly, both systems and bath will undergo temperature increase or decrease, and this change depends only on the rate of measurement, not on the actual results of these measurements…The predicted effects may be the key to developing novel heating and cooling schemes
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