News articles tagged with 'letter'
New twists in double helix discovery story are uncovered
— 30 Sep 2010 12:29 | BiologyThe story of the double helix's discovery has a few new twists. A new primary source - a never-before-read stack of letters to and from Francis Crick, and other historical materials…
Scientists explain the neurological process for the recognition of letters and numbers
— 27 Jul 2010 09:10 | Health'We analysed the influence of the context given by a word when linking the physical traits of its components to the abstract representations of letters,' explains to SINC Nicola Molinaro,…
How would Einstein use e-mail?
— 26 Sep 2009 13:20 | TechnologyYou're not as different from Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin after all, at least when it comes to patterns of correspondence…
How to spell B-Y-U with DNA
— 16 Sep 2009 15:01 | TechnologyResearchers from Brigham Young University found how to shape customised segments of DNA into tiny letters that spell 'BYU.' This new method of DNA origami will appear in the aptly titled…
What do Charles Darwin and the rock band Kasabian have in common?
— 29 Jun 2009 12:48 | HealthKasabian's latest album 'West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum' finds an eerie echo in letters Charles Darwin exchanged in the 1860s and 70s with James Crichton-Browne, the young superintendent…
Molecular typesetting - proofreading without a proofreader
— 23 Jun 2009 13:51 | BiologyResearchers at the Universities of Leeds and Bristol have developed a model of how errors are corrected whilst proteins are being built…
Unravelling the roots of dyslexia
— 20 Mar 2009 12:00 | HealthBy peering into the brains of people with dyslexia compared to normal readers, a study published online on 12th March in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, has shed new light…
From the works of Shakespeare to the genomes of viruses
— 12 Feb 2009 11:50 | TechnologyWhat does uncovering the true authorship of plays attributed to Shakespeare have to do with identifying our genetic ancestors or classifying new life forms? All involve the comparative…
Stanford writes in world's smallest letters
— 2 Feb 2009 09:20 | TechnologyStanford researchers have reclaimed bragging rights for creating the world's smallest writing, a distinction the university first gained in 1985 and lost in 1990. How small is the writing?…
Why C is not G: How we identify letters
— 25 Nov 2008 20:07 | HealthThe next time you are reading a book, or even as you read this article, consider the words that you are seeing. How do you recognise these words? Substantial research has shown that…