Tiny bacteria may seem rather unintelligent, but a bacterial crowd can accomplish the Sisyphean task of turning microgears millions of times bigger than themselves. The microbes start out by swimming randomly, but occasionally collide with the spokes of a gear and begin pushing. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University observed a crowd gather and push against the spokes.
Several hundred bacteria teamed up in order to turn one gear. When multiple gears sat next to one another with spokes connected, like in a clock, the bacteria began turning both gears in opposite directions, and created a synchronous movement.
In real estate, it’s location, location, location. And when it comes to why girls and women shy away from careers in computer science, a key reason is environment, environment, environment.
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At last, the Googlephone has appeared. Forget the Droid, the G1 and all those other Android wannabees. Google will begin to sell its own reference Android 2.1 handset, designed by Google,made by hardware partner HTC, and called the Nexus One. The phone will be sold online by Google itself.
As newspapers continue to struggle to drive online readership and revenues, The Washington Post and The New York Times have partnered with Google Labs to deliver Living Stories, an integrated approach to story-telling.
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Five major magazine and newspaper publishers announced plans on Tuesday to build an industry-standard platform to present their work on the Web, smartphones and electronic readers in a richer, more flexible and more lucrative form than is possible today.
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Lead investigator Jerry Shih, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic campus in Jacksonville, Fla., wanted to test how well their fledgling mind-machine interface functioned in these patients.
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