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Date: Fri Jul 23 2004 - 12:52:47 PDT

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    Surprising variation in human genes
    Newsday http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsdna233903749jul23,0,5818796.story?coll=ny-health-headlines>
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    Healthy people possess surprising
    variations in the number of copies
    of specific genes, an unexpected
    finding that Cold Spring Harbor
    researchers say may contribute to
    human diversity and may someday help
    identify genes involved in certain
    diseases. The researchers found that
    many people are missing large chunks
    of DNA, while others have extra...
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    When Technology Imitates Art
    New York Times July 22, 2004
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    With the aid of scanners and
    software, computer-guided milling
    machines can precisely duplicate
    sculptures and other art objects,
    blurring the line between what is
    authentic and what is...
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    UCLA Scientists Control a Single
    Electron's Spin With Commercial
    Transitor
    KurzweilAI.net July 22, 2004
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    A UCLA team succeeded in flipping a
    single electron spin upside down in
    an ordinary commercial integrated
    circut chip for the first time, and
    in detecting that the current
    changes when the electron flips.
    "Our research demonstrates that an
    ordinary transistor can be adapted
    for practical quantum computing,"
    said UCLA professor of physics Hong...
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    For Doctored Photos, a New Flavor
    of Digital Truth Serum
    New York Times July 22, 2004
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    Dartmouth College computer
    scientist Hany Farid has developed
    algorithms that detect photographs
    that have been digitally tweaked by
    combining and editing images. The
    technique uses "nearest-neighbor"
    and other techniques to detect
    alterations. "Digital watermarking"
    (embedding identifying pixels in an
    digital photo), a technique to...
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    Gold charges up electron by
    electron
    Nature Science Update July 22, 2004
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    IBM scientists have succeeded in
    changing the electrical charge of
    individual atoms. They used a
    scanning tunnelling microscope (STM)
    to deliver a single electron to
    individual gold atoms. The STM can
    also go back over the gold atoms and
    sense whether they are neutral or
    negatively charged. A string of
    neutral and negative gold atoms
    could...
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