Tuesday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on March 14, 2006 at 3:00:07 PM
Windows Live offers quick features.
New exoplanet found.
Optical nerve regrowth with nanoscaffolding.
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Last fall, MSN executive David Cole and his colleagues pitched CEO Steve Ballmer and Chairman Bill Gates on the idea that the company could launch online services a whole lot faster than complicated software such as new operating systems. They presented their plan with many of the online services that have been introduced in recent months as part of Windows Live.
New exoplanet found.
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The new planet was discovered by an alternative technique called microlensing which detects planets around much more distant stars. Microlensing can occur when one star passes directly in front of another, as seen from Earth. The gravity of the foreground star briefly magnifies the light of the background star, and if the foreground star has a planet in orbit around it, the planet can create a telltale brightness blip.
Optical nerve regrowth with nanoscaffolding.
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To overcome this problem, Ellis-Behnke and colleagues from Hong Kong University and the Institute for Neuroscience in Xi’an, both in China, created a nerve-bridging scaffold, made up of nanoparticle fibres. They attempted to make these fibres the same size as the sugars and proteins on the surface of the torn axon, in the hope that this would encourage cell growth and migration.