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Invention: Fraud-beating magnetic banknotes
from New Scientist - Latest Headlines
(2008-6-9 21:24)
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This week's new patent applications include banknotes you can feel are real, protective foam that can absorb explosive blasts, and a potential new weapon in the fight against HIV
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Pesticides blamed for plummeting salmon stocks
from New Scientist - Latest Headlines
(2008-6-9 20:52)
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A weak mix of chemicals dampens a salmon's ability to sniff out predators and may make it harder to find food and mates
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Tagging cells reveals the immune system in action
from New Scientist - Latest Headlines
(2008-6-9 20:06)
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Molecular tags can at last make immune cells easily visible to scanners, as well as reveal the sites of cancer and other diseases
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Seabed scratches show icebergs reached the tropics
from New Scientist - Latest Headlines
(2008-6-9 19:23)
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Gouges left by icebergs on the ocean floor suggest they drifted around 1000 kilometres south of the North American ice sheets 15,000 years ago
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'Hairy blobs' in acid hell suggest new niche for life
from New Scientist - Latest Headlines
(2008-6-9 18:28)
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Fossilised forms in what were once extremely acidic or salty lakes may have been alive, and could be the kind of life traces to look for on Mars (full text available to subscribers)
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[ニュース] ソニーCSLの考える「21世紀の社会と科学・技術」〜サイボーグ化する地球、オープンファーマなど
from Robot Watch
(2008-6-9 16:53)
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Radio waves from Earth clear out space radiation belt
from New Scientist - Latest Headlines
(2008-6-9 16:01)
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Radio transmitters used to communicate with undersea subs cause charged particles to leak out of the Van Allen belt, observations confirm
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[ニュース] NEDO、「ロボット知能ソフトウェア再利用性向上技術の開発」委託先を公募〜「次世代ロボット知�
from Robot Watch
(2008-6-9 13:58)
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[ニュース] 経済産業省、「今年のロボット」大賞2008の募集を開始
from Robot Watch
(2008-6-9 13:58)
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New RAS TC on Marine Robotics and Robot Learning
from IEEE-RAS news
(2008-6-9 8:00)
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The Robotics and Automation Society AdCom has aproved two new Technical Committee (TC). Organizers of the Marine Robotics TC include Gianluca Antonelli, antonelli@unicas.it corresponding and membership chair, Andrew Bennett,Hayato Kondo, Giacomo Marani,Richard Rikoski,Dan Stilwell, andJunku Yuh. Please notice that all members will receive a biannual newsletter. Mostof the information will be collected in the webpage. Members are encouraged to sendlinks to their laboratories and other activities they would like to see in the webpage. Organizers of the Robot Learning TC include Russ Russ Tedrake, JunMorimoto, Jun, Jan Peters Corresponding Co-Chair , and Nicholas Roy, Corresponding Co-Chair TCs encourage research in specific areas, particularly those which are] new and evolving. Membership is free and open to anyone. As research areas mature and change and the interests and priorities of the TC members change, TCs are retired. Sometimes they are transformed into new T ...
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