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		<title>Scientists Create Artificial Mini &#8216;Black Hole&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese researchers have successfully built an electromagnetic absorbing device for microwave frequencies. The device, made of a thin cylinder comprising 60 concentric rings of metamaterials, is capable of absorbing microwave radiation, and has been compared to an astrophysical black hole (which, in space, soaks up matter and light).]]></description>
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		<title>Earthquake in Chile Causesd Days to Be Longer, Austrian Researchers Find</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the earthquake in Chile in February 2010, the advanced geodesy research group at the Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) has been helping measure Earth on a global scale. First results indicate that the rotational speed of Earth has become marginally slower and days have become longer by 0.3 microseconds.Since the earthquake in Chile in February 2010, the advanced geodesy research group at the Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) has been helping measure Earth on a global scale. First results indicate that the rotational speed of Earth has become marginally slower and days have become longer by 0.3 microseconds.]]></description>
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		<title>Blood and guts: On the brink of a revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists will soon be able to manufacture body tissue to order if clinical trials continue to yield promising results

The future of British medical science looks bright, brilliant and very, very bold. Scientists have taken giant steps towards being able to manufacture new skin, blood and even new bones.

Some of the UK's top scientists will gather this week to share news of groundbreaking developments that will radically improve the chances of patients suffering from failing joints, damaged eyes, broken bones or scarred skin. The breakthroughs they have made will eventually ease the pressure to recruit, for example, blood donors of a particular type. Within a decade, blood cells made in the laboratory could be available for transfusions.

Professor Sue Hill, the Government's Chief Scientific Officer, said yesterday that Britain's ageing population is increasing the pressure on scientists to develop innovative, cheap and better techniques to repair ageing and worn-out bodies. Some of the pioneering work to do this will be presented at a Department of Health conference on Tuesday. "We have examples of world-leading scientific research in regenerative medicine," she said. "These scientists should be shouting from the rooftops about their work, which is recognised as internationally important. The conference is an opportunity to bring together scientists from 51 disciplines with those working in patient services, and policy-makers, so we can improve patient services and work out how to better engage with the public, so they understand the contribution science makes to their health and to UK PLC."]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Developing Swarms of Miniature Drifting Robots to Patrol the Ocean</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Science Foundation has just awarded researchers at UC San Diego a $1million grant to develop small robotic devices that will drift with the ocean currents to study the mechanisms that support plankton and other tiny marine creatures.  Swarms of the autonomous underwater explorers (AUE’s) could provide a window into the underlying factors that drive broader ocean processes, by more precisely focusing on localized data on currents, temperature, salinity, pressure, and other properties.
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		<title>Large Hadron Collider: Beams Are Back on at World&#8217;s Most Powerful Particle Accelerator</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Particle beams are once again zooming around the world's most powerful particle accelerator -- the Large Hadron Collider -- located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. On November 20 at 4:00 p.m. EST, a clockwise circulating beam was established in the LHC's 17-mile ring.]]></description>
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		<title>HAL&#8217;s bells: IBM makes &#8216;thinking computer&#8217; breakthrough</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists say they&#8217;ve made a breakthrough in their pursuit of computers that    &#8220;think&#8221; like a living thing&#8217;s brain &#8211; an effort that tests the limits of    technology.
Even the world&#8217;s most powerful supercomputers can&#8217;t replicate basic aspects of    the human mind. The machines can&#8217;t imagine a wall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Hobbits&#8217; Are a New Human Species, According to Statistical Analysis of Fossils</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers from Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York have confirmed that Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a descendant of healthy humans dwarfed by disease. Using statistical analysis on skeletal remains of a well-preserved female specimen, researchers determined the "hobbit" to be a distinct species and not a genetically flawed version of modern humans.]]></description>
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		<title>How Viruses Destroy Bacteria</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Viruses are well known for attacking humans and animals, but some viruses instead attack bacteria. Texas A&#038;M University researchers are exploring how hungry viruses, armed with transformer-like weapons, attack bacteria, which may aid in the treatment of bacterial infections.]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Clone Farm</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ENID, Oklahoma (Reuters) - To the untrained eye, Pollard Farms looks much like any other cattle ranch. Similar looking cows are huddled in similar looking pens. But some of the cattle here don't just resemble each other. They are literally identical -- clear down to their genes.]]></description>
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		<title>Lightning&#8217;s &#8216;NOx-ious&#8217; Impact On Pollution, Climate</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year, scientists learn something new about the inner workings of lightning.]]></description>
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<p>Even the world&#8217;s most powerful supercomputers can&#8217;t replicate basic aspects of    the human mind. The machines can&#8217;t imagine a wall painted a different    colour, for instance, or picture a person&#8217;s face and connect that to an    emotion.</p>
<p>If researchers can make computers operate more like a brain thinks &#8211; by    reasoning and dealing with abstractions, among other things &#8211; they could    unleash tremendous insights in such diverse fields as medicine and economics.</p>
<p>A computer with the power of a human brain is not yet near.</p>
<p>But this week researchers from IBM are reporting that they&#8217;ve simulated a    cat&#8217;s cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, using a massive    supercomputer.</p>
<p>The computer has 147,456 processors (most modern PCs have just one or two    processors) and 144 terabytes of main memory &#8211; 100,000 times as much as your    computer has.</p>
<p>The scientists had previously simulated 40 per cent of a mouse&#8217;s brain in    2006, a rat&#8217;s full brain in 2007, and 1 per cent of a human&#8217;s cerebral    cortex this year, using progressively bigger supercomputers.</p>
<p>The latest feat, being presented at a supercomputing conference in Portland,    Oregon, doesn&#8217;t mean the computer thinks like a cat, or that it is the    progenitor of a race of robo-cats.</p>
<p>The simulation, which runs 100 times slower than an actual cat&#8217;s brain, is    more about watching how thoughts are formed in the brain and how the roughly    one billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses in a cat&#8217;s brain work together.</p>
<p>The researchers created a program that told the supercomputer, which is in the    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, to behave how a brain is believed to    behave.</p>
<p>The computer was shown images of corporate logos, including IBM&#8217;s, and    scientists watched as different parts of the simulated brain worked together    to figure out what the image was.</p>
<p>Dharmendra Modha, manager of cognitive computing for IBM Research and senior    author of the paper, called it a &#8220;truly unprecedented scale of simulation.&#8221;</p>
<p>Researchers at Stanford University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory    were also part of the project.</p>
<p>Modha says the research could lead to computers that rely less on &#8220;structured&#8221;    data, such the input 2 plus 2 equals 4, and can handle ambiguity better,    like identifying the corporate logo even if the image is blurry.</p>
<p>Or such computers could incorporate senses like sight, touch and hearing into    the decisions they make.</p>
<p>One reason that development would be significant to IBM: The company is    selling &#8220;smarter planet&#8221; services that use digital sensors to monitor things    like weather and traffic and feed that data into computers that are asked to    do something with the information, like predicting a tsunami or detecting    freeway accidents.</p>
<p>Other companies could use &#8220;cognitive computing&#8221; to make better sense of large    volumes of information.</p>
<p>Jim Olds, a neuroscientist and director of the Krasnow Institute for Advanced    Study at George Mason University, called the new research a &#8220;tremendous    step.&#8221;</p>
<p>Olds, who was not involved in IBM&#8217;s work, said neuroscientists have been    amassing data about how the brain works much like &#8220;stamp collectors,&#8221;    without a way to tie it together.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve made tremendous advances in collecting data, but we don&#8217;t have a    collective theory yet for how this complex organ called the brain produces    things like Shakespeare&#8217;s sonnets and Mozart&#8217;s symphonies,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;The holy grail for neuroscientists is to map activity from single nerve    cells, which they know about, into how billions of nerve cells act in    concert.&#8221;</p>
<p>Modha says a simulation of a human cortex could come within the next decade if    Moore&#8217;s Law holds. That&#8217;s the rule of thumb that the number of transistors    on a computer chip tends to double every two years.</p>
<p>Yet Olds cautioned that simulating the human brain is &#8220;such a complex problem    that we may not be able to get to an answer, even with supercomputing.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;There are no guarantees in this game because the sheer complexity of the    problem really dwarfs anything we&#8217;ve tried to do,&#8221; he said.</p>

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<p>Even the world&#8217;s most powerful supercomputers can&#8217;t replicate basic aspects of    the human mind. The machines can&#8217;t imagine a wall painted a different    colour, for instance, or picture a person&#8217;s face and connect that to an    emotion.</p>
<p>If researchers can make computers operate more like a brain thinks &#8211; by    reasoning and dealing with abstractions, among other things &#8211; they could    unleash tremendous insights in such diverse fields as medicine and economics.</p>
<p>A computer with the power of a human brain is not yet near.</p>
<p>But this week researchers from IBM are reporting that they&#8217;ve simulated a    cat&#8217;s cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, using a massive    supercomputer.</p>
<p>The computer has 147,456 processors (most modern PCs have just one or two    processors) and 144 terabytes of main memory &#8211; 100,000 times as much as your    computer has.</p>
<p>The scientists had previously simulated 40 per cent of a mouse&#8217;s brain in    2006, a rat&#8217;s full brain in 2007, and 1 per cent of a human&#8217;s cerebral    cortex this year, using progressively bigger supercomputers.</p>
<p>The latest feat, being presented at a supercomputing conference in Portland,    Oregon, doesn&#8217;t mean the computer thinks like a cat, or that it is the    progenitor of a race of robo-cats.</p>
<p>The simulation, which runs 100 times slower than an actual cat&#8217;s brain, is    more about watching how thoughts are formed in the brain and how the roughly    one billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses in a cat&#8217;s brain work together.</p>
<p>The researchers created a program that told the supercomputer, which is in the    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, to behave how a brain is believed to    behave.</p>
<p>The computer was shown images of corporate logos, including IBM&#8217;s, and    scientists watched as different parts of the simulated brain worked together    to figure out what the image was.</p>
<p>Dharmendra Modha, manager of cognitive computing for IBM Research and senior    author of the paper, called it a &#8220;truly unprecedented scale of simulation.&#8221;</p>
<p>Researchers at Stanford University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory    were also part of the project.</p>
<p>Modha says the research could lead to computers that rely less on &#8220;structured&#8221;    data, such the input 2 plus 2 equals 4, and can handle ambiguity better,    like identifying the corporate logo even if the image is blurry.</p>
<p>Or such computers could incorporate senses like sight, touch and hearing into    the decisions they make.</p>
<p>One reason that development would be significant to IBM: The company is    selling &#8220;smarter planet&#8221; services that use digital sensors to monitor things    like weather and traffic and feed that data into computers that are asked to    do something with the information, like predicting a tsunami or detecting    freeway accidents.</p>
<p>Other companies could use &#8220;cognitive computing&#8221; to make better sense of large    volumes of information.</p>
<p>Jim Olds, a neuroscientist and director of the Krasnow Institute for Advanced    Study at George Mason University, called the new research a &#8220;tremendous    step.&#8221;</p>
<p>Olds, who was not involved in IBM&#8217;s work, said neuroscientists have been    amassing data about how the brain works much like &#8220;stamp collectors,&#8221;    without a way to tie it together.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve made tremendous advances in collecting data, but we don&#8217;t have a    collective theory yet for how this complex organ called the brain produces    things like Shakespeare&#8217;s sonnets and Mozart&#8217;s symphonies,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;The holy grail for neuroscientists is to map activity from single nerve    cells, which they know about, into how billions of nerve cells act in    concert.&#8221;</p>
<p>Modha says a simulation of a human cortex could come within the next decade if    Moore&#8217;s Law holds. That&#8217;s the rule of thumb that the number of transistors    on a computer chip tends to double every two years.</p>
<p>Yet Olds cautioned that simulating the human brain is &#8220;such a complex problem    that we may not be able to get to an answer, even with supercomputing.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;There are no guarantees in this game because the sheer complexity of the    problem really dwarfs anything we&#8217;ve tried to do,&#8221; he said.</p>

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