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PlayStation 3 will be used to help cure cancer and Alzheimer’s
Monday, August 28, 2006 The upcoming Sony PlayStation 3 game console is going to assist scientists in finding cures for cancer and Alzheimer’s disease using the Folding@home distributed computing program. Folding@home is run by the Pande group of Stanford University (America) to research protein folding, this is the process whereby proteins build themselves inside the […]
India: Maharashtra plastic ban comes into force
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Record number of bicycles sold in Australia in 2006
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2006 “Stolenwealth” Games to confront Commonwealth Games in Melbourne
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New Zealand recycles old computers for free
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Cypriot plane with 121 on board crashes in Greece
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BC man is selling the boat from old TV series Gilligan’s Island
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Battle for Trafalgar Square, London as violence breaks out between demonstrators and riot police
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