CIUDAD DE MÉXICO.- La UNAM cuenta con un prototipo de televisión en tercera dimensión (3D) que se desarrolló en los laboratorios del campus Juriquilla, en Querétaro, y que se prevé estará lista en 2011, informó el investigador Víctor Manuel Castaño Meneses.

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 HONG KONG, CHINA.- Un grupo de científicos secuenció el mapa genético completo de un hombre coreano y relacionó las variaciones únicas en su ADN con una posible susceptibilidad a algunos cánceres y otras enfermedades, como la artritis reumatoidea.

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Scientists have come a bit closer to achieving the "Star Trek" feat of teleportation.

No one is galaxy-hopping, or even beaming people around, but for the first time, information has been teleported between two separate atoms across a distance of a meter - about a yard.

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Vaya, ya era hora.

Scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville and the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, have done just that by harnessing the computing muscle of 16 PS3s running in a homebrew supercluster they've aptly dubbed the "PS3 Gravity Grid." Total cost? Around $6,000.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some things never change. Scientists said on Friday they had replicated an experiment in which people obediently delivered painful shocks to others if encouraged to do so by authority figures.

Seventy percent of volunteers continued to administer electrical shocks -- or at least they believed they were ( Read more... )

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese researchers have reproduced images of things people were looking at by analyzing brain scans, opening the way for people to communicate directly from their mind.

They hope their study, published in the U.S. journal Neuron, will lead to helping people with speech problems or doctors studying mental ( Read more... )

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TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - A snazzy sneaker with asymmetric soles is sweeping Japan, casting a spell on millions of youngsters with the catchy boast of helping them run faster.

The "Syunsoku" brand of sneakers has sold over 10 million pairs since ( Read more... )

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - In a puzzling twist, women who have a history of migraine headaches are far less likely to develop breast cancer than other women, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

The study is the first to look at the relationship ( Read more... )

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (Reuters) - NASA has abandoned plans to get its replacement for the retiring U.S. space shuttles into service by 2013 because of a lack of additional funds and technical ( Read more... )