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• Harvard gets its largest gift: $125 million
The new institute will bring together experts from numerous disciplines, including robotics, biology, computer science and surgery. It will build on the work of the existing Harvard Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in Cambridge, and ...
• Hollywood's undead: They're just like us
... BlackBerries and fret over relationship woes. They solve crimes, they give advice. Edward, the Volvo-driving vampire at the heart of the best-selling novel and soon-to-be-released film "Twilight," even slogs through the tedium of high-school biology ...
• Research into HIV, cancer garners Nobel Prize
Understanding biology of AIDS In its citation, the Nobel Assembly said Barre-Sinoussi and Montagnier's discovery was one prerequisite for understanding the biology of AIDS and its treatment with antiviral drugs. The pair's work in the early 1980s made ...
• Ig Nobel winners inspired by fleas, Coca-Cola
BIOLOGY: Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert and Michel Franc for discovering that fleas that live on a dog can jump higher than fleas that live on a cat. MEDICINE: Dan Ariely for demonstrating that expensive fake medicine is more effective ...
• Formula for Ig Nobel fame: strippers and Coke
... Switzerland for adopting the legal principle that plants have dignity . Archaeology: Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo and Jose Carlos Marcelino for showing armadillos can scramble the contents of an archaeological dig (report from Natural History ). Biology: ...