March 11th, 2009 
admin Inflammation is body’s response to an injury that results in pain and swelling. The response is mainly a protein called NF-kappa B. Recently, biochemistry professor Lin-Feng Chen of University of Illinois has decoded a molecule code that controls proteins function.
To understand the importance of Professor Chen’s discovery, we need to understand the relationship between inflammation [...]
March 11th, 2009 admin “God dang it” I exclaimed as I tried drinking my tea. Yet again I burned my tongue. As usual my tea was too hot and I tried drinking it too fast.
As long as my tongue feels the pain, I don’t think I am going to repeat this mistake again, but knowing myself when the pain [...]
March 10th, 2009 admin Shrinking electronics have been one of the dreams that we always acted upon. Year after year we have produced smaller and smaller electronics. As part of this dream we have invented the field of nanoelectronics.
To put it simply, nanoelectronics is a field that uses extremely small technology that is under 100nm. This field has been [...]
March 10th, 2009 admin There has been a big buzz about Stephen Wolfram’s new upcoming semantic based search engine, WolframAlpha. There’s been talk, again, that finally a Google killer is in the horizon. The future will tell if it is going to kill Google or not; however, it does bring to the spotlight a very important concept, the [...]
March 8th, 2009 Rafi Ladies and gentleman we have artificial ribosome in our hands. To many of you who aren’t biology geeks, lets say that we have an important component of microorganism/cells created artificially. The creator of it is George Church of Harvard University.
Reportedly, he have created billions of Ribosomes by “”using the bacteria E. coli, Church and Research [...]
March 8th, 2009 admin You: “Hello Moshi”
Moshi(Alarm Clock): “Welcome! Command please”
You: “Set time”
Moshi(Alarm Clock): “Tell me the current time”
You: “6:30 pm”
Moshi(Alarm Clock): “The time is now set to 6:30pm”
New York Time
Atlanta Time
Los Angeles Time
Imagine if you can set your clock just like that. Here is the good news, you can. In fact,
the above conversation is taken directly from Moshi’s [...]
March 8th, 2009 admin I admit it! There have been times when I wanted to sever my laptops head (a.k.a monitor). Not because I hated my laptop and wanted to destroy it, but because I really wanted to get my laptop closer to my eyes, so I can see better. Also sometimes I just wanted to use my laptop [...]
March 7th, 2009 admin If you ever played with blocks, you would know the importance of spatial reasoning. In nutshell, it is the ability to decipher, manipulate, and visualize three dimensional patterns.
We use spatial reasoning in variety of places, but until now we haven’t really used it while dealing with computers. MIT grad student David Merill has developed a [...]
March 7th, 2009 admin Have an old saggy laptop that is collecting dust in your garage? It is time to take it out, and install Presto on it. You can use Presto to basically access your files, network, and of course your instant messenger.
Installing Presto will turn your old laptop to an internet access point, so next time [...]
March 7th, 2009 admin After decades of research, it seems that face recognition is finally getting main stream. It’s uses are creeping out within some familiar technologies. Apple’s iPhoto, Google Picasso , and laptops are some of the examples.
Moreover, the technology behind face recognition has made very significant progress. Just recently Allen Yang has developed a new mathematical framework [...]
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