Oct

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Stephen Hawking Lectures at CERN

October 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Stephen Hawking Tours the Future of Particle Physics at CERN. ‘Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Cambridge University and best-selling author of A Brief History of Time, has paid a week long visit to CERN1 in Geneva – the world’s largest centre for particle physics. Prof. Hawking was visiting the Theory Unit of the Physics Department [...]

Oct

3

Learning the Lead Exposure Hazards

October 3, 2006 | Leave a Comment

‘Safe’ levels of lead may not be that safe after all. ‘Efforts to reduce lead exposure in the United States have been a good news-bad news affair — and the bad-news side of the ledger just got a bit longer. Although the removal of most lead from gasoline and paint in the United States has [...]

Oct

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China’s First Thermonuclear Fusion Experiment

October 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Thermonuclear fusion reactor test succeeds. ‘Chinese scientists on Thursday successfully conducted their first test of an experimental thermonuclear fusion reactor, which replicates the energy generating process of the sun. The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) fusion reactor, nicknamed “artificial sun”, was tested at the Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) [...]

Oct

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Triangle Science Blogging Conference

October 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment

The Triangle Science Blogging Conference will be a day-long conference Saturday, January 20, 2007 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This is a free, open and public event for scientists, educators, students, journalists, bloggers and anyone interested in discussing science communication, education and literacy — and [...]

Oct

1

The DrugBank Database

October 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment

The DrugBank Database is a unique bioinformatics and cheminformatics resource that combines detailed drug (i.e. chemical, pharmacological and pharmaceutical) data with comprehensive drug target (i.e. sequence, structure, and pathway) information. The database contains nearly 4300 drug entries including >1,000 FDA-approved small molecule drugs, 113 FDA-approved biotech (protein/peptide) drugs, 62 nutraceuticals and >3,000 experimental drugs. Additionally, [...]

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