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Prosecutors close Armstrong inquiry, no charges

FILE – In this July 17, 2009, file phot, seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong reacts as he answers questions of reporters prior to the start of the 13th stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 200 kilometers (124.3 miles) with start in Vittel and finish in Colmar, central France. (AP Photo/Bas [...]

Greece: Bond talks at ‘very good point’ (AP)

LAGONISSI, Greece ? Greece’s finance minister on Wednesday said talks with banks for a debt reduction deal worth euro100 billion ($127 billion) are at “a very good point.” Evangelos Venizelos made the remark a day before he is due to resume talks in Athens with Charles Dallara, the head of the Institute of International Finance, [...]

Chance To Snap Up Your Own Observatory

4000? “extra” a year may not sound like much, but for many small organizations it’s a huge change in their budget. Sure, top earners may lose that kind of change in their sofa, but if your group is mostly average working people that money’s going to be hard to come by. The economy of the [...]

DingleBerry jailbreak hits beta, frees PlayBooks until tomorrow

Been awaiting the release of a PlayBook jailbreak with bated breath? Well if you’ve got Canada’s favorite tablet and are rocking Windows, you’re in luck as DingleBerry has just gone live. While beta 0.2 of the tool won’t re-enable web access to Hulu, the haxors responsible are adamant it’ll come in due time, as will [...]

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Almost perfect: A breakthrough in superlens development January 11, 2012 No Comments

Public release date: 9-Jan-2012[ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Marcia Goodrichmlgoodri@mtu.edu906-487-2343Michigan Technological University A step toward a cheap, simple lens powerful enough to let us see a single virus A superlens would let you see a virus in a drop of blood and open the door to better and cheaper electronics. It might, says [...]

Almost perfect: A breakthrough in superlens development No Comments

ScienceDaily (Jan. 9, 2012) ? A superlens would let you see a virus in a drop of blood and open the door to better and cheaper electronics. It might, says Durdu Guney, make ultra-high-resolution microscopes as commonplace as cameras in our cell phones. No one has yet made a superlens, also known as a perfect [...]