Sleep Your Way to Greater Knowledge

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From New Scientist - Online news: The brain doesn't just consolidate memories while we slumber, it can learn about smells too Read the whole article

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After Apple Win, Droids Should Feel Afraid

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 27 August 2012 04:19:38 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From EE Times: Apple is now armed with a handful of proven weapons it can wield against Android competitors in and out of court on the industrial design and user interface of the iPhone and iPad.View the full article HERE. Read the whole article

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Learn How to Photograph Your Product

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 27 August 2012 04:13:53 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From Design News: If a picture is worth 1,000 words, a good photo must have a value many times that number. Read the whole article

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Tracking Nanoparticle Growth

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 27 August 2012 04:12:56 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From Chemical & Engineering News: Latest News: Synthesis: Labeling method sheds light on how nanoparticles take shape Read the whole article

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Fred Flintstone Would Love This Weird Pedal-Less
'Running' Bike

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 27 August 2012 03:35:45 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From DVICE: Back in the stone age, Fred Flintstone would drive his car along using his feet, so why not get rid of a bike's pedals and gears and drive it along in the same way? The Fliz Bike concept from Germany does just that, and even has you hang your body from the frame in a harness.

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Muti-Fluorescent Imaging with Bio-Rads Image Lab
Software

post from Canadian BioTechnologist2.0 on 27 August 2012 03:16:24 PM. © Canadian BioTechnologist2.0

Western Blotting is a common technique employed in most life sciences labs. An increasing number of journal editors and reviewers are requesting that the associated data is acquired using a camera-based imaging system that assures much greater accuracy and dynamic range in quantification of band densities than film. However, most of the software tools that [...]

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MIQE Trouble-Free

post from American Biotechnologist on 27 August 2012 02:25:15 PM. © American Biotechnologist

Real-Time PCR can be tough. It requires careful planning and much optimization. When it works, you[...]

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Update: New NASA map of sea ice minimum

post from Bad Astronomy on 27 August 2012 02:12:52 PM. © Bad Astronomy

Earlier, I wrote that arctic sea ice had yesterday reached record low levels, blowing through the previous lowest-seen minimum in 2007, even though there’s still a lot of melting left to go. NASA just released this visualization of the arctic[...]

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Does Organic Fluorine Accept Hydrogen Bonds

Recently, as part of a structure based virtual screening campaign I’m undertaking, the following pose popped up as one of the highest ranking solutions: Wow, that’s a nice looking fluorine-hydrogen bond (C-F···H-X) with that Asparagine, I thought to myself. But wait, can fluorine act as an hydrogen bond acceptor? A quick google scholar search came [...]

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BAFact Math: The Sun is 400,000 times brighter
than the full Moon

[BAFacts are short, tweetable astronomy/space facts that I post every day. On some occasions, they wind up needing a bit of a mathematical explanation. The math is pretty easy, and it adds a lot of coolness, which I'm passing on to you! You're[...]

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