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More than 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 calculations – in a second. At one million trillion, it will have to be the work rate of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope’s supercomputer to process the gigantic data loads the telescope will produce, said Simon Ratcliffe of SKA South Africa. “The final SKA

Scientists at the University of Sheffield have created a computer model of how bees avoid hitting walls – which could be a breakthrough in the development of autonomous robots. Researchers from the Department of Computer Science built their computer model to look at how bees use vision to detect the movement of the world around

Image via Wikipedia A new approach to tiny fuel cells implanted in rats enables the devices to generate electricity for months using sugar in the rodents’ bodies The advent of the artificial heart has spurred scientists to pursue synthetic kidneys and pancreases as well. Still, one key obstacle to realizing such devices is powering them

New evidence of a causal link between herpes viruses and Alzheimer’s reinvigorates research into the possible role of infections — and their treatment — in the disease What causes Alzheimer’s disease? The answer could be right under our noses, says leading expert Professor Ruth Itzhaki. Her latest paper presents a lifetime of research evidence that the

NIH intramural study also shows that individual organs are affected differently By lowering the expression of a single gene, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have extended the average lifespan of a group of mice by about 20 percent — the equivalent of raising the average human lifespan by 16 years, from 79 to

Genomes are like the biological owner’s manual for all living things. Cells read DNA instantaneously, getting instructions necessary for an organism to grow, function and reproduce. But for humans, deciphering this “book of life” is significantly more difficult. Nowadays, researchers typically rely on next-generation sequencers to translate the unique sequences of DNA bases (there are

The United States could eliminate the need for crude oil by using a combination of coal, natural gas and non-food crops to make synthetic fuel, a team of Princeton researchers has found. Besides economic and national security benefits, the plan has potential environmental advantages. Because plants absorb carbon dioxide to grow, the United States could

Biology is on the verge of getting its versions of the lever, wheel and axle, pulley and other basic machines that enable engineers to build almost any mechanical device, a new analysis has concluded. The viewpoint article on availability of this new toolkit — for engineering biological factories that can produce new biofuels, crops and