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Breast cancer impersonates neurons to invade the brain
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-1-7 5:00)
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Metastatic breast cancer cells evade the brain's defences by evolving characteristics unique to neurons and co-opting their energy source
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Ancient hunter-gatherers had rotten teeth
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-1-7 5:00)
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Tooth decay is supposed to be a modern disease, caused by eating starchy crops, but it first became common thousands of years before the origin of farming
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Today on New Scientist
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-1-7 2:45)
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All the latest on newscientist.com: ultrasound surgery– no scalpel required– what powers supervolcanoes, Stonehenge Man, aliens, asthma and more
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Flower-like liquid crystal lens grows like a pearl
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-1-7 2:30)
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Tiny lenses blossom around a silicon bead dropped into liquid crystal– they could one day be used in solar panels and surgical cameras
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DRCは「ロボットのウッドストック」／90台のカメラで人を自動追跡／CFRPの電車台車／血管を3Dプリンターで�
from 森山和道
(2014-1-7 1:24)
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Tweet ▼日経 災害ロボット熱戦 「ウッドストック」に見た夢と現実
ＤＡＲＰＡは決勝大会までに、倒れたら自分で起き上がったり、「向こうのバルブを閉めろ」と１回指示すれば一連の動作をすべて実行したりする自律性の向上を各チームに期待している。「今回の予選で災害救援ロボット開発の現状についてベンチマークができた。決勝大会までにどの程度進化するかを見れば、実用化の時期も見えてくるはずだ」とプラット氏はいう。
災害時にロボットが駆けつけて人間を助けるという夢と現実の差は、想像していた以上に大きかった。だが一方で、競技会で出会った人々には、その差を一気に縮めてくれるのではと思わせる情熱と可能性を感じた。
■日本での開催を打診
同じ思いを抱いたのは、記者だけではなかったようだ。ボストン・ダイナミクスやＳＣＨＡＦＴなど８社のロボット企業を相次いで買収したグーグルのアンディ・ルービン上級副社長は、自らのフェイスブックに会場で見かけたロボットの写真や動画を掲載して「すばらしい人々の集まりだ」と絶賛。ボストン・ダイナミクスの創業者マーク・レイバート氏は1960年代に熱狂的なファンが集まった伝説の ...
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Ultrasound killed the surgical star
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-1-7 1:00)
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From brain to prostate, focused waves of sound can reach places a scalpel can't, putting us on the brink of a surgical shake-up, finds Helen Thomson (full text available to subscribers)
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Dust factory seen in the heart of an exploding star
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-1-7 0:15)
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The expanding remnant of a supernova holds a vast core of dust, which could help explain how the universe got so dusty
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Anybody out there? The how and what of alien life
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-1-7 0:00)
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Three new books bring us up to speed on extraterrestrial life, its prospects and possible forms? but it remains "queerer than we can suppose"
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Renewable village offers lifeline to Fukushima farmers
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-1-6 21:45)
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Work has started on the Renewable Energy Village, a Japanese project that will grow crops beneath solar panels on land contaminated by fallout in 2011
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Sorry, Albert: Physics that challenges Einstein
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-1-6 21:14)
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Gravity, relativity, space and time? Albert Einstein explained all these and more. But his ideas are under scrutiny like never before
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