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Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies Ep 3 – Finding the Achilles Heel-(Quest Sunday special)

Finding the Achilles Heel(Last part of the emperor of all maladies) This episode picks up the story at another moment of buoyant optimism in the cancer world: Scientists believe they have cracked the essential mystery of the malignant cell and the first targeted therapies have been developed, with...

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Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies Ep 2 – The Blind Men and the Elephant(Quest week end special)

The Blind Men and the Elephant(Second part of the emperor of all maladies) This episode picks up the story in the wake of the declaration of a “war on cancer” by Richard Nixon in 1971. Flush with optimism and awash with federal dollars, the cancer field plunges forward...

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The Origins of Intel’s New Transistor, and Its Future-A Q&A with Chenming Hu, coinventor of finFET

9 May 2011—Intel announced a big change to the electronic switches at the heart of its CPUs. Going forward, the firm will be using three-dimensional transistors to take the place of long-used planar devices. The new transistors—dubbed “tri-gates”—are a variation on the FinFET, a transistor design that substitutes...

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The Ant Internet

Had this ant research been performed in the early 1970s, when researchers were working on communications algorithms, it might have saved them a little time. Not that the researchers would have necessarily given the ants the credit. After all, quips  “the ants didn’t publish.” Before researchers developed the...

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The Surface Area Effect-wet your hand and see

As you’ve probably already learned by now, large-scale particles and nanoparticles can exhibit very different properties. And changes made on the nanoscale can create materials that exhibit different properties as well. The development of nanomaterials have led to the development of stain resistant cloth, bicycle frames that are...