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Russian : A-100 Flying Radar can detect up to 300 targets

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The newest Russian AWACS aircraft can detect up to 300 targets. Russia's A-100, the most advanced airborne early warning and control aircraft (or AWACS), made its maiden...

MQ-9 Demonstrates Anti-Submarine Mission Capabilities

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The remote detection and tracking of submerged contacts, such as submarines, was demonstrated using an MQ-9 Predator® B Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) during a...

Carefully Crafted Light Pulses Control Neuron Activity

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Specially tailored, ultrafast pulses of light can trigger neurons to fire and could one day help patients with light-sensitive circadian or mood problems, according...

How the Immune System Identifies Invading Bacteria

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The body’s homeland security unit is more thorough than any airport checkpoint. For the first time, scientists have witnessed a mouse immune system protein...

Kill switches for engineered microbes gone rogue

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Stable autonomous kill switches ensure biocontainment of living microbes designed as devices for medicine or the environment Synthetic biologists are fitting the genomes of microorganisms...

Scientists working in the vanguard of new genetic technologies for ecosystem conservation

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Scientists working in the vanguard of new genetic technologies have issued a cautionary call to ensure that possible applications in conservation will only affect...

Hydrogen fuel from water by harnessing red and near-infrared regions of sunlight

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Hydrogen gas is a promising "green" fuel. The lightest chemical element, hydrogen is an efficient energy store and could potentially replace gasoline in vehicles. However,...

Dog ownership linked to lower mortality rate

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A team of Swedish scientists have used national registries of more than 3.4 million Swedes aged 40 to 80 to study the association between...

Discovered Secrets of Ebola in the heart of devastating outbreak

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In a comprehensive and complex molecular study of blood samples from Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, published in Cell Host and Microbe, a scientific team...

Rifiutata l’offerta di aiuto israeliano ai terremotati in Iran e Iraq

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Netanyahu: “Il nostro senso di umanità è più grande del loro odio” Sopravvissuti nella città iraniana di Sarpol-e-Zahab, duramente colpita dal terremoto Israele ha offerto di...

New supercatalyst to recycle carbon dioxide and methane

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The University of Surrey has developed a new and cost-effective catalyst to recycle two of the main causes behind climate change -- carbon dioxide...

Paraplegic rats walk and regain feeling after stem cell treatment

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Engineered tissue containing human stem cells has allowed paraplegic rats to walk independently and regain sensory perception. The implanted rats also show some degree of...

British Airways : who pays less will be the last to board

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The social discrimination trava a new form of expression ..... if you pay cheap ... everyone will know it British Airways passengers paying the lowest fares...

Banking Trojan Gains Ability to Steal Facebook, Twitter and Gmail Accounts

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Security researchers have discovered a new, sophisticated form of malware based on the notorious Zeus banking Trojan that steals more than just bank account details. Dubbed Terdot,...

Israeli researchers develop invisibility cloak

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Cloaking carpet' will deflect light so objects placed upon it do a disappearing act, say Ben-Gurion University scientists; next step is to develop a...