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Unlike Virtual Reality (VR) that aims at replacing the perception of the world with an artificial one, Augmented Reality (AR) has the goal of enhancing a person's perception of the surrounding world. Being partly virtual and real, the new interface technology of AR can revolutionise education.

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Summaries of newsworthy papers include Extinction: A game of chance, Materials: Going with the flow, Virology: Viral sedatives, Collision course: Another type of brief encounter and finally… Carbon on early Earth

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On July 21, RIKEN will host a science session entitled “Drought-tolerant plants: helping the world to cope with global warming” at EuroScience Open Forum 2008 (ESOF2008) held in Barcelona, Spain.

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The present invention relates to Internet Protocol version six (IPv6) as a wireless network infrastructure. The use of this technology is expected to guarantee no packet loss while reducing handover delay by 94.32% and packet delay by 84.43% during handover.

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Landslides drive glacial advances, Cognitive therapy to control reward anticipation, A new way to treat premature ageing, A sweet route to treating Alzheimer’s disease?, Oceanic methane production, New anti-parasite protective mechanism, Automated imaging of worm gene expression, Mushroom bodies feel the heat

Read more of the article entitled 'Biotechnology: Fingers point way to HIV treatment '