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• Research into HIV, cancer garners Nobel Prize
... of HPV-induced carcinogenesis and the development of prophylactic vaccines against HPV acquisition," the citation said. Alfred Nobel, the Swede who invented dynamite, established the prizes in his will in the categories of medicine, physics ...
• Ig Nobel winners inspired by fleas, Coca-Cola
PHYSICS: Dorian Raymer and Douglas Smith for proving that heaps of string or hair will inevitably tangle. CHEMISTRY: Sheree Umpierre, Joseph Hill and Deborah Anderson for discovering that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide, and C.Y. Hong, C.C. Shieh ...
• CERN computer grid links 7,000 scientists
GENEVA - CERN, the world's biggest particle physics laboratory and creator of the Worldwide Web, on Friday unveiled a new computer network allowing thousands of scientists around the world to crunch data on its huge experiments. Some 7,000 scientists ...
• Mercury probe going back for an encore
Messenger is first interplanetary mission to use solar sailing as a means to control its trajectory," said Daniel O'Shaughnessy, the lead Messenger navigator at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. He added that they ...
• Cell phone battery life: The charge is yours
Assuming there are no chemistry or physics breakthroughs forthcoming, there are a couple of directions we can head,” he said. “One is by having phones with much smarter operating systems that turn off unnecessary functions,” including radios in ...