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25th May 2009

Billion Year Storage and General Relativity


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A simulated Black Hole of ten solar masses as seen from a distance of 600km with the Milky Way in the background (horizontal camera opening angle: 90°)

On this week's NewsFlash, the nano-scale media storage that will last a billion years, the toxic bite of the komodo dragon and the biological link between cancer and depression.  Plus, we look back to this week in Science History, when a solar eclipse confirmed Einstein's theory of General Relativity!

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Data storage that will last a billion years

Scientists have used nanotechnology to solve a serious problem of the digital age - data degradation. Although we think of digital storage as a way to preserve photos and other data in pristine condition, the lifetime of modern storage media is as little as 20-30 years.  This is in stark cont...

(c) Human Genome Project

Down's do better in cancer stakes

Individuals with Down's syndrome have a significantly lower likelihood of developing cancer (with the exception of a form of leukaemia) compared with the general population but no one knew why.  Now a study in the journal Nature has revealed the answer. Harvard researcher Sandra Ryeom and her ...

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Dragons with toxic bite

They seem like the stuff of fairytales or maybe nightmares, but Komodo dragons are the closest things we have to real, man-eating dragons. At three metres long, these lizards that live on the Indonesian island of Komodo and are fearsome enough, and now scientists have discovered that they have a tox...

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Brain structure makes a people-person

Do you consider yourself to be a people-person? Do you crave the company of others, are you warm and sentimental? Well, if you are, then it could come down to the structure of your brain. Graham Murray led a team of researchers from Cambridge University and Oulu University in Finland who have disco...


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Biological Link between Cancer and Depression

Biological Link between Cancer and Depression

(c) F. W. Dyson, A. S. Eddington, and C. Davidson

This Week in Science History - Proof of General Relativity

This Week in Science History saw in 1919, the solar eclipse that proved Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity to be correct...




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