Invasion of the Netbooks

BusinessWeek - Some consumers are opting for the inexpensive, small, Web-connected computers in place of laptops that can cost three times as much.

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Treating tumours - Golden slingshot

Economist - A second generation of nanoparticles has entered clinical trials. Some are so good at hiding their contents away until they are needed that the treatments do not merely reduce side-effects; they actually allow what would otherwise be lethal poisons to be supplied to the tumour and the tumour only. Others do [...]

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You might be surprised by what’s in charge of your body

Chronicle Review - The deepest, most private recesses of our genome might seem, if not sacrosanct, at least the inner sanctum of our “selves.” But consider this: More than four times as much space in the human genome is occupied by “endogenous retroviruses” than by all the genes that code for the [...]

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Warfare - Fighting with photons

Economist - The most famous weapon of science fiction is rapidly becoming fact. The first serious battlefield ray gun is now being deployed. And the next generation, now in the laboratory, is coming soon.

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Russian scientists design mechanical nurse

Pravda - A group of scientists from the Moscow State University is currently developing a new medical appliance that will be capable of taking blood samples and making injections instead of nurses, RIA Novosti reports.

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Against Intuition

Chronicle Review - An intuition in philosophy is something far more potent than it is in ordinary discourse. Intuitions rear their heads when philosophers write such things as, “In this case, we would surely say …,” or, “It would be natural to say …” (for example, that killing a man to harvest [...]

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Large Hadron Collider must hibernate until spring

Times - Preliminary investigations into the incident, in which a huge quantity of helium leaked from the LHC’s cooling system, have suggested that it was caused by a faulty electrical connection between two of its superconducting magnets. The fault affected a part of the accelerator that is kept chilled to within 1.9C of [...]

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