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• The Frontiers of Nanotechnology • News Archive • Nanotechnology Project

  Public Bookmark added by wildcat on 12/02/2008

  The future of how the world communicates, and how we power our lives, will likely come from the same source. According to the latest NanoFrontiers newsletter and Trips to the Nanofrontier podcast, nanotechnology will be central to developing advanced, “faster, better, cheaper” electronics and ...

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• Obama's Vision Spurs Hope at COP14 Global Climate-Change Conference

  Public Bookmark added by wildcat on 12/02/2008

  Delegates, activists and researchers assembled in Poznan, Poland yesterday, for the opening of the fourteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP14). The meeting is the fourth of its kind this year. And even though the U.S. delegation in ...

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• Talking Web, memory assistants and solar-powered cell phones headed mainstream, IBM says - Network World

  Public Bookmark added by wildcat on 12/01/2008

  A talking Web, solar technology embedded in windows and cell phones, and the end of forgetting will all come in the next five years, IBM predicts in its third annual Next Five in Five list, detailing innovations that could change our lives in the next half-decade.The other predictions: We will ...

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• Conscious Choice: Breakdown or Breakthrough?

  Public Bookmark added by wildcat on 11/30/2008

  Witnessing the unraveling of the global financial system, I find myself gripped by contrasting emotions. While part of me feels like heading for the hills and hoarding cans of sardines, another part of me is giddy, almost celebratory. The tyrannical rule of Wall Street is ending, along with the ...

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• Harvard Team Unlocks Clues to Genes that Control Longevity

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  Harvard Medical School Researchers have used a single compound to increase the lifespan of obese mice, and found that the drug reversed nearly all of the changes in gene expression patterns found in mice on high calorie diets--some of which are associated with diabetes, heart disease, and other ...

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