An IBM team in Zurich has published single-molecule images so detailed that the type of atomic bonds between their atoms can be discerned. The same pioneering team took the first-ever single-molecule image in 2009 and more recently published images of a molecule shaped like the Olympic rings. The new work opens up the prospect of studying imperfections in the “wonder material” graphen…
An international research team has succeeded in taking an amazing image of a newly synthesized molecule called olympicene. The molecule – just over a billionth of a metre across – gets its name because its five linked rings resemble the Olympic symbol. It was first made by collaborators at the University of Warwick in the UK. They teamed up with IBM researchers, who in 2009 pioneered…
…a point just an atom or two across – was used to funnel electrical charge into the motor, as well as to take images of the molecule as it spun. It spins in both directions, at a rate as high as 120 revolutions per second. But averaged over time, there is a net rotation in one direction. “By modifying the molecule slightly, it could be used to generate microwave radiation or to couple into w…
Clara Lazen, a 10-year-old girl from Missouri, may be the youngest in history to discover a new molecule after a brief introduction on molecular formation by her middle school science teacher. Clara Lazen of Kansas City was piecing together over-sized atoms from an educational model in her Border Star Montessori School classroom when she composed something her teacher had never seen before. “I ju…
Lady Gaga took to the stage in her usual array of skimpy outfits in Zurich, Switzerland, on Wednesday. Lady Gaga, 26, who has become an advocate for curvy girls after recently gaining 25 lbs, confidently strutted around in her tour costumes, which includes a leather g-string and fishnet tights get-up. It comes just days after Lady Gaga, who has battled bulimia and anorexia, took to social media t…
Sep 27 2012 | Posted in
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Serbian police has recovered a Cezanne painting stolen in a raid on a Swiss museum in 2008. Authorities have not named the painting, but local media has reported it is Boy in a Red Waistcoat, which was taken from Zurich’s Emil Georg Buehrle Collection, a private collection founded by a WWII arms dealer and entrepreneur. Serbian police said three people had been arrested in connection with t…
Goal-line technology could be introduced in the Premier League midway through the 2012-13 season after it was approved by the International Football Association Board (IFAB) in Zurich. Two systems – Hawk-Eye and GoalRef – have passed FIFA’s criteria for use. The technology will first be used at December’s FIFA Club World Cup and, if successful, at the 2013 Confederations C…
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…f scientific affairs at L’Oréal, said: “We’ve known for 100 years that hair grows and falls out. We haven’t known what makes hair regenerate until now. “It is all about hair stem cell environment. In 2000, we have published the existence of two stem cell reservoirs in the hair and, more recently, we have both identified the optimal environment and designed a molecule able to favor it. “Kérastase…
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Researchers from UK Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology have succeeded in mimicking the chemistry of life in synthetic versions of DNA and RNA molecules. The work shows that DNA and its chemical cousin RNA are not unique in their ability to encode information and to pass it on through heredity. The work, reported in Science, is promising for future “synthetic bi…
…e to the vaccine. ImMucin, a breakthrough vaccine that targets a molecule in 90% of all cancers has been tested on humans for the first time If all goes well, ImMucin could be on the market by 2020. Rather than attacking cancer cells, like many drugs, ImMucin harnesses the power of the immune system to fight tumors. The search for cancer vaccines has until now been hampered by fears that h…
…lymphocytic leukemia and infected their T cells with the virus. When they infused the blood back into the patients, the engineered T cells successfully eradicated cancer cells, multiplied to more than 1,000 times in number and survived for months. They even produced dormant “memory” T cells that might spring back to life if the cancer was to return. On average, the team calculat…
…olo Di Lazzaro continued: “We hope our results can open up a philosophical and theological debate but we will leave the conclusions to the experts, and ultimately to the conscience of individuals.” In 2009 it was claimed that Leonardo da Vinci had created the image and it could even have been a self-portrait. Lillian Schwartz, a graphic consultant at the School of Visual Arts in New York, claims t…
Dutch police have arrested a suspect following a threat, posted on the internet, to carry out a shooting at a school in the city of Leiden. The suspect has been identified as a former pupil of the British School, which has a site in neighboring Voorschoten. More than 20 schools were told to stay closed on Monday in Leiden in response to the threat posted on internet forum 4chan. The anonymous wri…
Apr 22 2013 | Posted in
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…omed as a guest soloist by orchestras such as the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, Mozarteum Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vienna Symphony Orchestra. In 2010, her debut solo album, Piano & Forte won the ECHO Klassik award for Solo Recording of the Year. Mihaela Ursuleasa’ second solo album Romanian Rhapsody was released in March 2011….
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Beer will be allowed to be sold in stadiums at the 2014 World Cup after Brazilian Senate has passed a controversial and much-delayed bill. When Brazil was chosen to host the event it promised to sell alcohol at matches despite a 2003 drinks ban introduced to stop violence. Football’s world governing body, FIFA, demanded the change because brewer Budweiser is a World Cup sponsor. President D…
The largest single day electronic dance music event, LovEvolution: A Dance Music Parade and Festival is hosted at the historical stadium O.co Coliseum and Oracle Arena in Oakland, California on Saturday, September 24, 2011. LovEvolution 2011 has a main stage, a grassy area at the Supperclub, 17 community produced, unique floats, with great names in dance music (Moby and Markus Schulz), top…
According to a new research, there’s a 50/50 chance of another catastrophic 9/11-style attack in the next ten years, and an even greater chance if the world become less stable. The startling figure was floated by a pair of researchers who examined more than 13,000 lethal terrorist attacks between 1968 and 2007. They calculated the likelihood based on the assumption that the frequency of maj…
Sep 8 2012 | Posted in
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…tered down after lobbying from the catering trade and tobacco firms. Swiss voters appear to have rejected a total ban on smoking in enclosed public places at a referendum With returns from nearly all 26 cantons counted, the full ban seemed to have been rejected convincingly. Zurich newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung suggested voters had rejected the ban by nearly two-thirds. In some cantons, more th…
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…ore than double the data we had last year,” said CERN’s director for research and computing, Sergio Bertolucci. “That should be enough to see whether the trends we were seeing in the 2011 data are still there, or whether they’ve gone away. It’s a very exciting time.” Discovering particles is a numbers game, and scientists analyze many events that could be repres…
…resence of markers of HIV and prostate cancer could be detected. However, trials on a much larger scale will be needed before it could be used clinically. The researchers expect their design will cost 10 times less than current tests. They say this will be important in countries where the only optifons are unaffordable. Fellow researcher Dr. Roberto de la Rica said: “This test could be signi…
Oct 28 2012 | Posted in
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Ricin, one of the byproducts of processing castor beans, is a toxin that is fatal to humans in extremely small doses. Just 1 milligramof ricin is a deadly amount if inhaled or ingested, and only 500 micrograms of the substance would kill an adult if it were injected (CDC). The victim can die within 36 to 48 hours due to the failure of the respiratory and circulatory systems. There is no known cur…
Apr 17 2013 | Posted in
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…ends to make report the results in a scientific publication. After 8 weeks of Revitalift Laser X3 treatment applied twice daily, the product reduced cutaneous micro-relief by 18 percent compared with 20 percent for the laser CO2 It was found that after eight weeks of Revitalift Laser X3 treatment applied twice daily, the product reduced cutaneous micro-relief by 18% compared with 20% for the lase…
s present in the bark of Eastern Cape South African bushwillow tree. A comparison was made between the results of the company’s aggregate data from five independent prospective Phase 1 and Phase 2 trials using Zybrestat to treat patients with anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC), including the FACT trial, and data from the 50-year experience in treating ATC patients at the Mayo Clinic from 1949 t…
…ual electronic, mechanical and chemical properties of graphene at the molecular scale promise numerous applications. Andrei Geim and Konstantin Novoselov from the University of Manchester were awarded 2010′s Nobel Prize in physics for their discovery, outlined in a scientific paper in 2004. Andrei Geim and others have now developed a laminate made from thin sheets of graphene oxide. These fi…
…ated. “We generated these sugars from a very simple set of materials that most scientists believe were around at the time that life began.” The research has echoes of the landmark Miller-Urey study in 1952, which simulated hypothetical conditions that may have been present on early Earth. The study findings showed how the building blocks of life can form from simple chemical reactions – for…
