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Dog's verbal tricks probe origin of
language
NewScientist.com News June 10, 2004
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A pet dog with a "vocabulary" of
200 words has given scientists clues
that some animals may have the
comprehension necessary for
language, even though they cannot
actually...
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SIA boosts forecast, touts nano
effort
EE Times June 10, 2004
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The U.S. electronics industry's
long-term prospects could dim unless
a national effort to boost
nanoelectronics gets underway,
according to the Semiconductor
Industry Association. Many believe
that the higher leakage currents
that come with scaling CMOS devices
will force the industry to adopt new
technologies by 2020. John Kelly,
senior...
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Bacterial Integrated Circuits
Science_at_NASA<mailto:Science_at_NASA> June 10, 2004
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University of Tennessee
microbiologists have developed
Bioluminescent Bioreporter
Integrated Circuits (BBIC) that use
chips to collect signals from
specially altered bacteria to track
pollution. Now, with the support of
NASA's Office of Biological and
Physical Research, they're designing
a version for sensing contaminants
on spaceships....
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The Brain Starts to Change at Age
40
Genome News Network June 10, 2004
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Researchers at Children's Hospital
in Boston and Harvard Medical School
report that aging brains show
significant differences in the
behavior of several groups of genes
that are important for brain
function and that may contribute to
the aging process. One group of the
genes plays a role in "synaptic
plasticity" -- the ability of the
brain to...
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Study Supports View That Ice Age Is
Still Quite a Way Off
New York Times June 9, 2004
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A group of climate and ice experts
says it has new evidence that Earth
is not even halfway through the
current warm era. The evidence comes
from ice extracted from Antarctica,
composed of thousands of ice layers
formed as each year's snowfall was
compressed over time. It reveals
many similarities between today's
atmospheric and temperature...
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