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iPhone Microscope Diagnoses Disease

Researchers recently demonstrated how easy it could be to remotely diagnose disease anywhere in the world by merely snapping a close-up lens onto your iPhone and photographing a sample of blood.

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Pollen (left) and plant stems (middle, right) are shown from an expensive microscope (top) and with an inexpensive add-on lens for an iPhone (bottom).

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Autism Traits Prove Valuable for Software Testing

Smarter software-debugging services are being performed by savants where the intense focus and superlative technical abilities of high-functioning autism shine.

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Oran Weitzberg has a form of high-functioning autism, called Asperger's syndrome, which enables him to happily spend long hours performing software debugging tasks that are stultifying for ordinary programmers.

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Providing Reliable Wireless Communications for First Responders

If you’re in charge of a first-responder operation such as fire, police or utility emergency repair, the last thing you want to deal with is unreliable wireless communications. A young company named Utility Associates has an innovative wireless communication system that provides reliable WiFi connectivity to all approved mobile devices utilized in emergency, utilities and first-responder situations.

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The Rocket mobile communications appliance.

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Space Observatory Provides Clues to Creation of Earth's Oceans

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New measurements from the Herschel Space Observatory have discovered water with the same chemical signature as our oceans in a comet called Hartley 2 (pictured at right).

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Fossils Help Rev Hard-Hit Newfoundland Fishing Area

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Guy Narbonne, a paleontologist at Queen's University in Ontario, inspects a fossil at the Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve in Newfoundland. It is filled with half-a-billion-year-old treasures like this one.

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Three Scientists Share Nobel Prize In Medicine

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NobelPrize.org

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NASA Space Telescope Finds Fewer Asteroids Near Earth

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NEOWISE observations indicate that there are at least 40 percent fewer near-Earth asteroids in total that are larger than 330 feet, or 100 meters. Our solar system's four inner planets are shown in green, and our sun is in the center. Each red dot represents one asteroid. Object sizes are not to scale.

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NIH to make a mightier mouse resource for understanding disease

Publicly available resource will add detailed medical information about knockout mice

Over the next five years, National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded researchers will extensively test and generate data about mice with disrupted genes to gain clues about human diseases. NIH today awarded a set of cooperative agreements totaling more than $110 million to begin the second phase of the Knockout Mouse Project (KOMP).

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World's Largest Academic Cloud

Not to be left behind in the dust of industry marching forward, academia recently unveiled their largest cloud computing platform, aimed at providing the petabytes of storage required for giant scientific simulations and big-data analytics.

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The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Cloud is connected to 10 other supercomputer sites nationwide on the high-speed TeraGrid network.

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3D Pico Projectors Grow at Double Digits

As sizes shrink down to palm-size pico projectors, and with a new injection of interest from 3D, double-digit market growth in projectors offers a beacon of hope that global economic uncertainty cannot dim.

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The thumb-size pico-projector's micro mirror is fabricated in the center of a thumbnail-size MEMS chip

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