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...thing about the bent nanowires is the ability to control the direction that the nanowire is going at any particular time,” said David C. Bell, one of the authors and the manager of the imaging and analysis facility at the Center for Nanoscale Systems, referencing the discovery??s electrical application. “If you can control the direction of the nanowires, in theory you can build any sort of circuit you want...
Each October, when Americans celebrate Columbus Day, they celebrate Christopher Columbus’s 1492 “discovery?? of North America, a continent already home to hundreds of thousands of indigenous inhabitants. In other words, to celebrate Columbus Day is in part to assume that American history, a trajectory that stretches back for centuries before 1492, begins with the presence of white European explorers—an assumption that smacks of an outmoded, Eurocentric worldview. And while the holiday’s national importance has thankfully diminished in recent decades, the trend away from celebrating Columbus...
...small strategy session was well-warranted. In the array of “discovery?? tools available to civil litigators for building a case pre-trial, deposition is one of the most powerful—an opportunity for one side’s lawyers to conduct a virtual interrogation of potential witnesses, often at their own law offices, with a court reporter present to transcribe. Put under oath and given very few grounds for objection, the deposed party has no recourse for evasion. Add to this the fact that depositions often last for hours and even days...
...converted cells in medical treatments. Hochedlinger said that his lab is now researching whether human adult stem cells will behave differently from the mouse cells used in the experiments. “There may be slight differences in timing and molecular cornerstones,” Hochedlinger said. Despite the discovery??and other ones regarding adult stem cells at the University of Wisconsin and Kyoto University—researchers at Harvard have pledged to continue pursuing embryonic stem cell research. Embryonic research has come under fire from those who consider the destruction of embryos to be immoral. Federal funding...
...Eventful 15-Day Mission for Shuttle Discovery Ends An “eventful” shuttle mission? No way! But besides the unnecessary adjective, this headline is great because it’s one of those linguistic examples of sentences that can go either way. “Discovery?? is the name of the shuttle, but it also seems like we might be sending scientists out on missions to discover shuttles. What fun! 3) From Sewage, Added Water for Drinking I’m sort of not being sarcastic when I say this one is good. The headline...