Biomimicry. This is a news website article about a scientific finding | Martin Robbins | Science. In this paragraph I will state the main claim that the research makes, making appropriate use of "scare quotes" to ensure that it's clear that I have no opinion about this research whatsoever. In this paragraph I will briefly (because no paragraph should be more than one line) state which existing scientific ideas this new research "challenges". If the research is about a potential cure, or a solution to a problem, this paragraph will describe how it will raise hopes for a group of sufferers or victims.
This paragraph elaborates on the claim, adding weasel-words like "the scientists say" to shift responsibility for establishing the likely truth or accuracy of the research findings on to absolutely anybody else but me, the journalist. In this paragraph I will state in which journal the research will be published. "Basically, this is a brief soundbite," the scientist will say, from a department and university that I will give brief credit to. Related Links: Programmed DNA Robot Goes Where Scientists Tell It | Nanotechnology | LiveScience. A tiny robot made from strands of DNA could pave the way for mini-machines that can dive into the human body to perform surgeries, among other futuristic applications. While DNA-based robots have been made before, this latest real-life micromachine is the first one that researchers have successfully programmed to follow instructions on where to move.
Once assembled, the robot can take multiple steps without any outside help, according to lead researcher Andrew Turberfield, a professor at the University of Oxford. "Turberfield's group has figured out a beautiful way to automate the movement of a strand of DNA along a track," said William Sherman, an associate scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, who was not involved in the study. DNA bots When thinking about robots, many of us picture humanlike machines with metal moving parts, like Rosie from "The Jetsons. " DNA bots operate along similar lines, but on the molecular scale with chemical versions of motors and sensors. If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we cure cancer? : Respectful Insolence. Why haven’t we cured cancer yet? If we can put a man on the moon, why can’t we cure cancer? If we can harness the atom, why can’t we cure cancer? How many times have you heard these questions, or variants thereof?
How many times have you asked this question yourself? Sometimes, I even ask this question myself. Saturday was the two year anniversary of the death of my mother-in-law from a particularly nasty form of breast cancer, and, even though I am a breast cancer surgeon, I still wonder why there was nothing in the armamentarium of science-based medicine that could save her from a several month decline followed by an unpleasant death. That’s why, to me at least, the timing of the publication of a study examining the genome of prostate cancer that was published in Nature a week and a half ago and summarized in this Science Daily news story was particularly apt. Cancer is not a single disease, and cancers are different Even cancers arising from the same cell type can be quite different.
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Art. Zeros to heroes: 10 unlikely ideas that changed the world. Cookies on the New Scientist website close Our website uses cookies, which are small text files that are widely used in order to make websites work more effectively. To continue using our website and consent to the use of cookies, click away from this box or click 'Close' Find out about our cookies and how to change them Log in Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password close My New Scientist Look for Science Jobs Zeros to heroes: 10 unlikely ideas that changed the world (Image: Hulton Deutsch Collection/Corbis) No matter how elegant or ingenious they may at first seem, most novel scientific ideas turn out to be false.
Michael Faraday built an electric motor in 1821 and a rudimentary generator a decade later – but half a century passed before electric power took off. What links modern cosmology to 18th-century musings on billiards? A car with just two wheels looked too terrifying to catch on, but the secret of its amazing balancing act is at the heart of today's guidance systems. Experiment. A new "Higgs" edition of the ATLAS pop-up book - Voyage to the Heart of Matter is published in English and German. This updated edition of the book contains the pop-up particle tracks resulting from the decay of a Higgs boson in the heart of ATLAS, one of the four main experiments on CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
Both ATLAS and the Large Hadron Collider are recreated in full 3D pop-up by paper engineer Anton Radevsky. The book contains 16 separate pop-ups that reveal the inner workings of the Large Hadron Collider and the ATLAS experiment and now also include the discovery of the Higgs boson. The first edition of the pop-up book was published in the UK by Papadakis in November 2009. English and German copies of the book arrive at CERN early December. Book cover Build your own ATLAS experiment Pop-up detail The Big Bang The ATLAS experiment Co-author Emma Sanders Pop-up detail: the control room. Jennifer L. Rohn. 13 more things that dont make sense. Cookies on the New Scientist website close Our website uses cookies, which are small text files that are widely used in order to make websites work more effectively.
To continue using our website and consent to the use of cookies, click away from this box or click 'Close' Find out about our cookies and how to change them Log in Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password close My New Scientist Look for Science Jobs 13 more things that don't make sense (Image: Loungepark / The Image Bank / Getty) Strive as we might to make sense of the world, there are mysteries that still confound us. Axis of evil Radiation left from the big bang is still glowing in the sky – in a mysterious and controversial pattern Dark flow Something unseeable and far bigger than anything in the known universe is hauling a group of galaxies towards it at inexplicable speed Eocene hothouse Tens of millions of years ago, the average temperature at the poles was 15 or 20 °C.
Fly-by anomalies Hybrid life Morgellons disease. Our genomes, unzipped. When we launched this website back in June, I welcomed readers with a promise that Genomes Unzipped would “ultimately be much more than just a group blog”. Indeed, the last four months of blogging have really just been a prelude of sorts to what comes next: the real Genomes Unzipped. Today we’re launching an exciting new phase of the project. Although we’re not entirely sure where this journey will take us, we’re looking forward to finding out – and to bringing you along with us. What are we doing? Over the last year, all the members of Genomes Unzipped have had genome scans performed by personal genomics company 23andMe; several of us have also had additional tests done by other genetic testing companies (Counsyl, deCODEme).
Over the next few weeks, each of the members will be writing about their own experiences with genetic testing, and what they’ve learnt from their own genetic data. Why are we doing this? What about the risks? We’re going into this process with our eyes wide open. 21 Most Remarkable Natural Phenomena.
Discovery of taste receptors in the lungs could help people with asthma breathe easier. Public release date: 24-Oct-2010 [ Print | E-mail Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: Sharon Bostonsboston@umm.edu 410-328-8919University of Maryland Medical Center Taste receptors in the lungs? Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore have discovered that bitter taste receptors are not just located in the mouth but also in human lungs.
What they learned about the role of the receptors could revolutionize the treatment of asthma and other obstructive lung diseases. "The detection of functioning taste receptors on smooth muscle of the bronchus in the lungs was so unexpected that we were at first quite skeptical ourselves," says the study's senior author, Stephen B. Dr. The taste receptors in the lungs are the same as those on the tongue. For the current study, Dr. Most plant-based poisons are bitter, so the researchers thought the purpose of the lung's taste receptors was similar to those in the tongue – to warn against poisons. Dr. . [ Print | E-mail.