Folding@home: New award for Folding@home team

Folding@home researcher Greg Bowman was awarded the 2010 Kuhn Paradigm Shift Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) for his talk on two paradigm shifts resulting from Folding@home:
1) the new methods that Folding@home uses to simulate protein folding, misfolding, etc, and
2) the results themselves, which suggest a significant change in protein folding theory.

Folding@home: New award for Folding@home team

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.2 Security Update ~ Security Garden

Firefox update:

Mozilla released Firefox version 3.6.2 which fixes the following critical issue found in previous versions of Firefox 3.6:

Fixed a critical security issue that could potentially allow remote code execution (see bug 552216).

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.2 Security Update ~ Security Garden

The power of sharing

Earlier this month, IBM and the Scripps Research Institute announced a major breakthrough in the fight against HIV/AIDS. World Community Grid — which supplied researchers with more than 109,000 YEARS of computation time over a five year period — was a major factor in this groundbreaking success. Now, there is hope for a new class of drugs to help the more than 33 million people who are infected worldwide.

Technorati Tags: AIDS, HIV, IBM, scripps, world community grid

Source: The power of sharing | A Smarter Planet Blog

Of course! We have a team for that!

Sky Valley Chronicle Washington State News | BREAKING NEWS | “WAVE” OF STUDENT SUICIDES AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Sky Valley Chronicle Washington State News | BREAKING NEWS | “WAVE” OF STUDENT SUICIDES AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY

(ITHACA, NEW YORK) -- What is described as “a wave of suicides” at Cornell University in the past two semesters is a serious "public health crisis," according to the school's mental health initiatives director Timothy Marchell who added the school was “not out of the woods yet.”

The Ithaca New York Police Department reported four student suicides during the fall 2009 semester, and at least two over the last two months.

It's a departure for Charlies Web Teams to publish this story, but I felt the need.

Recent reports of two celebrity children dying at their own hands made the news and I lost my cousin under similar circumstances last month as well. Soon after tweeting about my cousin, I received a new follower on Twitter. Now that person has started her own blog here,
I am a survivor... here's my story on Blogger!

All of this prompted me to add the SocialVibe widget for "To Write Love On Her Arms" a charity which supports suicide prevention. While not a typical Charlies Web venture and NOT distributed computing, folks can click through to SocialVibe and help me support these efforts. While they are there, they may find a charity they would like to help as well.

Scientists successfully embed silicon chips inside living cells - SmartPlanet

Call it the final frontier: the semiconductor industry has finally figured out how to embed silicon chips inside living cells.

The continuing miniaturization of the fabrication process — we’re now at 22 nanometers — has allowed Spanish researchers to begin integrating nanoelectronic components with living cells, according to a Nanowerk report.

Until now, scientists have only been able to embed living cells in nanoelectronics. Now technology is small enough to perform the reverse.

Scientists successfully embed silicon chips inside living cells - SmartPlanet

Dubai tower exporting 10 times more renewable energy than needed - SmartPlanet

Dubai tower exporting 10 times more renewable energy than needed - SmartPlanet

The 10 MW Tower in Dubai is quite a renewable energy machine. The skyscraper is pumping out 10 times the amount of energy it needs and is exporting power to the surrounding neighborhood.

Studied Impact, the architects behind the 10 MW Tower, note that the tower has three energy producing systems: a horizontal axis wind turbine, a concentrated solar power armature and an updraft tower.

CERN Press Office | LHC First Physics - press resources

CERN Press Office | LHC First Physics - press resources

9 March 2010

The LHC is already over a week into its 2010 run, and the start of physics at 7 TeV is just around the corner. Last week, participants at the annual La Thuile workshop in Italy had the chance to take stock of what lies in store for the LHC’s first physics run. They learned that there’s a great sense of anticipation here at CERN and at particle physics labs around the globe, and for good reason – we’re about to open up the biggest range of potential new discovery that particle physics has seen in over a decade.

Gold nanoparticles take out brain parasite

Gold nanoparticles take out brain parasite

SYDNEY: A novel technique to kill parasites in the human body uses a combination of gold nanoparticles and lasers, and has been shown to work on Toxoplasmosis gondii - a common parasite that causes cysts in the brain.

Current treatments for parasites often have unwanted side affects on other cells in the body. This new technique is target-specific, opening up exciting new possibilities for the treatment of pathogenic parasites and possibly other infectious agents as well.

Chile quake may have tipped Earth's axis - CNN.com

Chile quake may have tipped Earth's axis - CNN.com

Such changes aren't unheard of.

The magnitude 9.1 earthquake in 2004 that generated a killer tsunami in the Indian Ocean shortened the length of days by 6.8 microseconds.

On the other hand, the length of a day also can increase. For example, if the Three Gorges reservoir in China were filled, it would hold 10 trillion gallons (40 cubic kilometers) of water. The shift of mass would lengthen days by 0.06 microsecond, scientists said.

VIPRE Antivirus Twitter Giveaway

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