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Magnetic bacteria may be building future bio-computers
Magnet-making bacteria may be building biological computers of the future, researchers have said. Leeds and Japan’s Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have used microbes that eat iron. As they ingest the iron, the microbes create tiny magnets inside themselves, similar to those in PC hard drives. The research may lead to the creation of […]
The Single Theory That Could Explain Emergence
May 7, 2012
Organisation And The Origin of Life Biochemists have long imagined that autocatalytic sets can explain the origin of life. Now a new mathematical approach to these sets has even broader implications One of the most puzzling questions about the origin of life is how the rich chemical landscape that makes life possible came into existence. […]
No SUSY In New CMS Search
May 7, 2012
By Tommaso Dorigo This week’s graph comes from a recent publication by the CMS experiment, the one I am a proud member of together with about 3000 colleagues from all over the world. CMS (see a 3-D sketch below) is one of the two huge detectors collecting the faint signals of particles produced in the powerful 8-TeV […]
May 7, 2012
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