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...help diagnose cancer. Lieber’s idea was to attach each of the wires to numerous antibodies. When the antibodies bind to enzymes known to be associated with cancer, their conductivity changes. A patient’s diagnosis is obtained by measuring the electric current across the grid. According to Lieber, these nanowire devices have numerous advantages over current techniques for diagnosing cancer: they are cheap to produce, can test for a number of different cancer markers in parallel, and can be easily updated when new markers are discovered. Professor Lieber was not available for comment about his research...
...landscape of Fallujah today isn't encouraging. Some rebuilding is taking place, and three-quarters of the houses have been reconnected to the electrical grid. But neighborhoods in the northeast and southeast--the two main entry points for last year's invasion--are filled with rubble piles and buildings whose top stories have been blasted off. For every reconstruction project, there is a pile of cinder blocks where a house used to be. The military has closed the city to the outside world, allowing people in only after they show ID cards that they are residents of Fallujah. The Marines...
Battling disease is easy if you're on a power grid with access to effective treatments. But what if clean water and electricity are unavailable luxuries? These products are designed for use in just those low-resource settings...
...sounds like a far-off dream: The home that heats and cools itself for free and actually generates a bit more juice than it consumes, so that the power utility might even send you a check for supplying energy to the grid. But with commonsense design principles and a little help from technology, the house of the future can be yours...
...oscillating water column successfully generated power during trials outside Port Kembla harbor in June. (A rival system called Pelamis, using 120-m-long hinged cylinders, was successfully tested in Scotland in April.) Once commissioned, Energetech's plant is expected to feed into the local grid enough clean power for 500 homes. Energetech is developing several commercial-scale projects from Israel to Rhode Island. Wave energy, Denniss says, is "more consistent, predictable and concentrated than wind. It's also inexhaustible." Having studied the ocean's power all his life, he's in no doubt that it will soon be turning...