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UCLA researchers create self-healing, power-generating artificial muscle

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2008-03-22 22:58:00 by Darren Murph in Engadget
...UCLA have taken two fabulous ideas and wed them together to create "an artificial muscle that heals itself and generates electricity." Put simply, the contracting / expanding of the material can generate a small electric current, which can be "captured and used to power another expansion or stored in a battery." The scientists have relied on...
 
 
 
 
 
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UCLA researchers create self-healing, power-generating artificial muscle

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2008-03-23 03:03:47 by admin in Cool Gadgets and Gizmos
...UCLA have taken two fabulous ideas and wed them together to create an artificial muscle that heals itself and generates electricity. Put simply, the contracting / expanding of the material can generate a small electric current, which can be captured and used to power another expansion or stored in a battery. The scientists have relied on...
 
 
 
 
 
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UCLA researchers create self-healing, power-generating artificial muscle

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2008-03-23 03:58:00 by Darren Murph in
...UCLA have taken two fabulous ideas and wed them together to create "an artificial muscle that heals itself and generates electricity." Put simply, the contracting / expanding of the material can generate a small electric current, which can be "captured and used to power another expansion or stored in a battery." The scientists have relied on...
 
 
 
 
 
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Planetarium at UCLA uses Projection Technology

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2008-05-28 19:21:42 by Tom Limber in News at About Projectors
...UCLA planetarium. At the planetarium, visitors can view the sky as it would have been at different times in history. During what the department calls special topic shows that occur every Wednesday, graduate students are able to teach visitors about specific topics. In the middle of the planetarium, running the show is a projector that fills...
 
 
 
 
 
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Time travel in Berlin

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2008-03-31 12:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...UCLA's Hypermedia Berlin can help Long story short: UCLA associate professor of Germanic Languages and Jewish Studies Todd Presner , a self-described "techie-humanist," is the driving force behind Hypermedia Berlin, "on online geodatabase that enables visitors to virtually explore the famous German city layer by layer and era by era," wrote...
 
 
 
 
 
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Nanomechanical Analysis Reveals Cancer Cells Are Soft

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2008-01-24 08:00:36 by Michael in Medgadget
...UCLA, that has a therapeutic and diagnostic promise in oncology: A multidisciplinary team of UCLA scientists was able to differentiate metastatic cancer cells from normal cells in patient samples using leading-edge nanotechnology that measures the cells' softness The study, published Dec. 2 in the advance online edition of the journal Nature...
 
 
 
 
 
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New PET-Probe Allows Imaging of Immune System

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2008-06-11 08:19:00 by jhbarad in Medgadget
...UCLA have been able to utilize PET scanning to visualize three dimensionally the immune system and its response to cancer treatment. The new probe will allow oncologists to monitor the effectiveness of cancer treatments as well as the effect of chemotherapy on the immune system. Here's more from UCLA: The probe is based on a fundamental cell...
 
 
 
 
 
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Scientists Reprogram Human Skin Cells into Embryonic Stem Cells

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2008-02-12 19:07:42 by Michael in Medgadget
...UCLA's stem cell research center reprogrammed human skin cells into a state that is very similar to the one that embryonic stem cells exist in. In their paper, published in the latest early online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences , the scientists confirm the work of researchers Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University...
 
 
 
 
 
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Mobile devices analyze users environmental impact

2008-09-26 17:33:07 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...UCLA) and Nokia Research Center (NRC) Palo Alto PEIR has been selected to appear as one of the new global innovations transforming the world at the WIRED NextFest event in Chicago, US, September 27 to October 12, 2008 PEIR is a completely new concept, which introduces a dimension of intelligence and new depth in comparison with the...