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Scientists
untangle legendary knot
POZNAN, Poland, April 9 (UPI) -- A Polish physicist and a Swiss
biologist may be the first to have untangled the mysteries of a
legendary knot dating back to Alexander the Great.
Newton's
cherished constant may not be so constant
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. May 3 (UPI) -- A Russian physicist at MIT -- the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- has announced experimental
data that may topple one of science's most cherished dogmas -- that
Newton's constant of gravitation, famously symbolized by a large "G,"
remains constant wherever, whenever and however it is measured.
Ultra-fast
particles inflated Universe, physicists say
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. May 7 (UPI) -- Tachyons -- particles that move
faster than the speed of light in defiance of Einstein's strict
prohibitions against such amazing speeds -- may be responsible for the
inflation that expanded the Universe from zero to trillions of light
years in a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.
To stop AIDS,
find hub, scientists say
SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 23 (UPI) -- Getting the best AIDS treatments
money can buy to nations without money to buy them may be the only way
to eradicate the global plague, according to new findings by Notre
Dame University researchers.
AIDS
filter may remove virus from blood
SAN DIEGO, April 28 (UPI) -- A novel filtration process designed to
remove the AIDS virus from human blood has shown excellent promise in
a series of pre-clinical trials, according to researchers at Aethlon
Medical, an early stage biotechnology firm in La Jolla, Calif.
Math
theory predicts fire, disease spread
WASHINGTON, July 13 - A Russian mathematician has developed a complex
proof that may shed light on percolation processes -- not those
associated with morning coffee, but with mathematical models that
describe the random spread of forest fires, orchard blight, infectious
diseases and the way that hard-to-tap oil moves through porous rock.