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...power windows to dolls with nuanced facial expressions. "I like to be on the wave of the next insanely great thing," he says. His motors work because the alloy nitinol can assume different shapes as its temperature fluctuates. An electrical current causes a nitinol wire in the device to shorten, allowing the linear motor to contract like a human muscle but at 1,000 times the strength. That's a simple task but an important one, and one MacGregor believes can reach markets worth $3.8 billion. The NanoMuscle, which costs less than $1 to make, qualifies as nanotech, the company...
...funny. If that's the criteria-then when is Beyonc? getting the boot? TINA BROWN Former Talk editor's contract bought out early by Miramax for $1 million. That should about cover her lunch tab at the Royalton Hotel JEFFREY ARCHER British novelist loses bid to shorten a four-year jail term for perverting justice. Much more time behind bars and justice will be perverting...
After “scouting out” last year’s show, Cadiff says he hopes to shorten the production from its previous three and a half hour length...
...Harvard’s plan properly considered might shorten the time we have to wait for urban ring,” he said...
...telomerase. Once you immortalize the cell, it will start to divide indefinitely--just the thing cancer cells do to such destructive effect. In a recent, unrelated study that hints at the problem, scientists found that an enzyme known as P53 that has the power to suppress tumors may also shorten life expectancy. As for genetic manipulation, it is theoretically possible to re-engineer senescence genes or introduce proteins that block their operation, but with what could be thousands of genes involved in aging, that may be as far beyond biologists as building a starship is beyond rocket scientists. "That would...