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Top Science News
- Nanotechnology
  - A Nano Device Capable of Generating Electricity from Your Blood Flow
- Information Technology
  - Researchers Explore Scrapping the Internet
- Astronomy
  - Star's Odd Double Explosion Hints at Antimatter Trigger
- Physics:
  - Probing Quantum Memories
- Biology/Mathematics:
  - Run For Your Life: A Mathematical Model of Animal Populations Shows Precisely What Elements are Required for Predators and Prey to Avoid Extinction.

CAIS Members Author Three Invited Articles in the International Union of Crystallography Newsletter
- Report on the Workshop on the application of synchrotron radiation in Macromolecular Crystallography
  - By Mohammad Yousef and Tarek Hussein (104 KB PDF)
- SESAME a Bright Light of hope to the Middle East
  - By Mohammad Yousef, Maged Al- sherbiny and Tarek Hussein (186 KB PDF)
- Guest Editorial, In a garden in Cairo
  - By Mohammad Yousef (81 KB PDF)
The International Union of Crystallography Newsletter is distributed to 587 libraries and 17,000 crystallographers and other interested individuals in 39 countries. The IUCr also runs Crystallography Online, available at www.iucr.org, as a complement to the IUCr print newsletter.

Members of the Astrophysicists Division Identify the Origin of a Mysterious Signature from a Distant Neutron Star Whose Radiation Once Disturbed the Earth's Atmosphere
- In an international collaboration led by CAIS astrophysicists, the team identified the origin of a puzzling spectral feature from an extraordinary type of neutron stars.
  - Read the Paper | Previous Discovery Paper
- The Finding Gives the Neutron Star an ultra-high Magnetic Field of about 10¹⁵ G.
- This Neutron Star Emitted a Powerful Gamma-ray Flash in 1998 that ionized the Earth's Atmosphere from ~ 50,000 Light Years away: Read More
- These X-ray and Gamma-ray stars are currently being utilized in the next generation Global Positioning System (GPS) that can be used aboard spacecrafts and satellites. Read more in the following two articles:
  - The Use of X-ray Pulsars in GPS Space Navigation: X-ray GPS 1 | X-ray GPS 2

CAIS Members to Tem up with Stanford SLAC Scientists
- Two CAIS members will soon be heading to the prestigious Stanford University accelerator facility SLAC in order to collaborate with SLAC scientists on Synchrotron and Accelerator design. This partnership was made possible by a generous grant from the International Atomic Energy Agency. CAIS extends a warm thanks to IAEA.

Ask a Scientist: Challenging Questions Made Simple
- What is the Universe Expanding Into? (Credit: Astronomy Cast)
  - Come on, admit it, you’ve had this question. If the Universe is expanding from the Big Bang, what is it expanding into? What’s outside the Universe? Read & Listen to the Answer.

The 2006 Nobel Prize in Science
- Physics
  - Discovery and identification of the Spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and the anisotropy within
  - Dr. Johan Mather (NASA GSFC) & George Smoot (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
  - Announcement | Nobel Lecture (J. Mather) | Nobel Lecture (G. Smoot) |Public Info | Advanced Info
- Chemistry
  - Discovery of how information are transmitted from the genes to the proteins at a molecular level
  - Dr. Roger D. Kornberg (Stanford University)
  - Announcement | Nobel Lecture | Public Info | Advanced Info
- Medicine
  - Discovery of the fundamental mechanism (known as RNA interference) for controlling the flow of genetic information
  - Dr. Andrew Z. Fire (Stanford University) & Dr. Craig C. Mello (Univ. of Massachusetts)
  - Announcement | Nobel Lecture (A. Fire) | Nobel Lecture (C. Mello) | Public Info | Advanced Info