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Monday, July 18, 2011

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News


NASA's Dawn spacecraft enters orbit around asteroid Vesta

Posted: 17 Jul 2011 09:18 PM PDT

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is now the first probe ever to enter orbit around an object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will study the asteroid, named Vesta, for a year before departing for a second destination, a dwarf planet named Ceres, in July 2012. Observations will provide unprecedented data to help scientists understand the earliest chapter of our solar system. The data also will help pave the way for future human space missions.

Early talking doll recording discovered

Posted: 17 Jul 2011 12:04 PM PDT

Scientists recently recovered sound from an artifact that historians believe is the earliest surviving talking doll record. The artifact is a ring-shaped cylinder phonograph record made of solid metal, preserved by the National Park Service at Thomas Edison National Historical Park. Phonograph inventor Thomas Edison made the record during the fall or winter of 1888 in West Orange, New Jersey.

Monitoring cellular interactions at nano-scale in more detail than ever before

Posted: 17 Jul 2011 10:48 AM PDT

Using nanotechnology to engineer sensors onto the surface of cells, researchers have developed a platform technology for monitoring single-cell interactions in real-time.

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