Systems Properties Of Insulin Signaling Revealed
06:49 20-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Swedish researchers have characterized novel systems properties of insulin signaling in human fat cells. Their mathematical modeling provides further insight into energy level maintenance (via the hormone insulin) within our bodies.
Supercomputer Explores Biochemical Landscape To Find Memory Switches
03:49 20-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Cells use switches for determining what kind of cell to become -- skin or blood, for instance, in responding to stress, and in communication with other cells. Researchers have now cataloged even more templates of possible switches within a living cell than we use throughout our day.
Tiny Refrigerator Taking Shape To Cool Future Computers
00:49 20-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Researchers are developing a miniature refrigeration system small enough to fit inside laptops and personal computers, a cooling technology that would boost performance while shrinking the size of computers.
Experimental Phone Network Uses Virtual Sticky Notes
21:49 19-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
The rapid convergence of social networks, mobile phones and global positioning technology has given engineers the ability to create something they call "virtual sticky notes," site-specific messages that people can leave for others to pick up on their mobile phones.
Liter Of Fuel Would Last UK 1 Year If Cars Had Kept Pace With Computers
21:49 19-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
One liter of fuel would serve the UK for a year and oil reserves would last the expected lifetime of the solar system -- if efficiency in the car industry had improved at the same rate as in the computer world -- a leading computer scientist has said.
The Economics Of Nice Folks
21:49 19-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
A researcher argues in Science that a basic tenet of economics -- that people always behave selfishly -- can be wrong, sometimes badly so. He points to new experimental evidence that people do often act against their own personal self-interest in favor of the common good, and they do so in predictable, understandable ways. Poorly-designed economic institutions fail to take advantage of intrinsic moral behavior and often undermine it.
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