March 13/20, 2006



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Nano knitting mends brains
Scientists have used a nanotechnology-based technique to repair traumatic brain injuries in hamsters. The brain injuries blinded the animals; the repair partially restored the hamsters' vision...

Mighty molecular motor
Scientists have made several types of single-molecule rotary motors. The challenge is getting them to do useful work...

Broken straw illusion
Precision positioning with DNA
Nano metronome
Printing nanocircuits

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View from the High Ground: Cornell's Jon Kleinberg
Six degrees of separation, buying gasoline by the molecule, the science of popularity, all just getting along online, intellectual prosthetics, Big Science, making up questions, and telling stories.

How It Works: Quantum computing: qubits
Photons, electrons and atoms, oh my! These particles are the raw materials for qubits, the basic building blocks of quantum computers.







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SMALLEY'S
RESEARCH WATCH
March 16, 2006
DNA nanotech made easy
Scientists have produced two-dimensional patterns from DNA for several years, but the process is complicated and the yields are often low. A researcher from the California Institute of Technology has found a simple way to arrange DNA into just about any pattern that can be formed from 200 dots
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March 12, 2006
Loneliness trumps exercise

February 24, 2006
In hot water

February 16, 2006
Don't think about it

 
"In most areas of science and technology, the origins of new breakthroughs can still be found in the work of a small number of people -- or even a single person -- working at their own pace on their own questions, pursuing things that interest them. "
- Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
 

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