From: Max M (maxmcorp@worldonline.dk)
Date: Fri Jan 24 2003 - 02:55:36 MST
http://www.futureport.dk/news - 2003-01-24 (10 articles)
[Economy]
BBC - Grow trees to drive cars
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2689437.stm
The best way to make the UK's road transport green could be a massive
tree-growing programme, researchers say. They say there is considerable
potential for producing hydrogen and alcohol fuels from fast-growing
trees like willows. A quarter of all the UK's agricultural land would be
enough to fuel the country's entire road transport sector, they believe.
[Health]
Betterhumans - Reducing Fat Might Be How Caloric Restriction Works
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http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2003-01-23-9
By preventing overeating mice from accumulating fat, researchers have
provided a possible explanation for why restricting caloric intake
extends lifespan. According to a report by New Scientist, Ronald Kahn at
Harvard Medical School in Boston and colleagues extended the lifespan of
mice 18% simply by blocking their accumulation of fat in certain cells.
[Nanotech]
Nature - Nanotech is not so scary
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http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v421/n6921/full/421299a_fs.html
Given recent rumblings from opinion-formers, researchers working on the
science of the incredibly small should exert more effort on putting the
risks posed by their work into the proper perspective...
[Politics]
MSNBC - Clonaid official refuses questions
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http://www.msnbc.com/news/858213.asp
The vice president of Clonaid, which says it has now cloned three
babies, was ordered Wednesday to appear in court next week after
refusing to testify in detail about the headline-grabbing claim many
experts consider to be a hoax...
[Science]
BBC - Computer boosts memory by 10%
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2683945.stm
Scientists believe they may have found a way to improve our memory by as
much as 10%. Researchers at Imperial College London have used a
technique called neurofeedback to train people to remember more clearly.
It works by showing people their own brainwaves on a computer screen,
and teaching them how to control them.
[Science]
BBC - Watching genes in action
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2680127.stm
Scientists have found a way to study the shape and movement of
individual molecules of DNA, the genetic material that contains the
building blocks of life. The technique - called single molecule
fluorescence - has enabled researchers to obtain the most precise
information yet about the workings of single DNA molecules - which
measure just one millionth of a centimetre across.
[Science]
Nature - DNA: Molecule of the year
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http://www.nature.com/nature/links/030123/030123-2.html
No contest, really. In recognition of the anniversary of publication of
the Watson and Crick paper on D.N.A. (sic) structure, this issue
includes facsimiles of the original and the two accompanying papers by
Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and co-workers, all part of a 60-page
supplement to mark the jubilee year. Full details on page 395. Elsewhere
in the issue it is DNA's dynamic properties, Jim Watson's personal
experiences and DNA's industrial consequences that entertain...
[Science]
Science Blog - Monkeys Show Sophisticated Learning Abilities
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http://www.scienceblog.com/community/article828.html
Psychologists have found evidence that monkeys have sophisticated
abilities to acquire and apply knowledge using some of the same
strategies as do humans... The scientists said they have not yet found
the limits of the monkeys' learning capacity...
[Space]
Betterhumans - Biosphere Project Losing Funding
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http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2003-01-23-6
An ambitious project to simulate Earth's ecology and provide a model for
self-sustaining space facilities is losing funding. Biosphere 2, an
experimental structure containing rainforests, deserts, marshes and
oceans, was built by Texas billionaire Edward P. Bass.
[Space]
New Scientist - Nuclear fusion could power NASA spacecraft
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993294
The journey time from Earth orbit to Mars could be slashed from six
months to less than six weeks if NASA's idea for a nuclear
fusion-powered engine takes off... fusion drive would be able to
generate 300 times the thrust of any chemical rocket engine and use only
a fraction of its fuel mass. That means interplanetary missions would no
longer need to wait for a "shortest journey" launch window...
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-- hilsen/regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark http://www.futureport.dk/ Fremtiden, videnskab, skeptiscisme og transhumanisme
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