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Good Morning,
TGIF! I hope you have enjoyed this weeks articles. Can you
believe it is already August! My son goes back to school in
three weeks and I have already bought school supplies. Where
did the summer go?

Have a great weekend,
Erin
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Ancient device may have predicted eclipses

An ancient Greek mechanical device regarded by some experts
as the world’s first computer may have predicted solar eclipses,
studies indicate. The Greek device, referred to as the Antikythera
Mechanism, may have also arraigned the calendar in the four-year
intervals of the Olympiad, a four-year period affiliated with
the Olympic Games of Classical Greece, The New York Times
reported Thursday. New information about the Antikythera
Mechanism was published Wednesday in the journal Nature after
a study headed by filmmaker and math expert Tony Freeth of the
Antikythera Mechanism Research Project, in Cardiff, Wales, the
Times said. Experts said the idea for the ancient device may
have come from the colonies of Corinth, Greece. The study
suggests there is a connection between the device and ancient
Greek scientist Archimedes, who studied in Syracuse, Italy,
in the third century B.C.

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Scientists create a nanoscale scale

U.S. scientists say they have created a nanoelectromechanical
scale system sensitive enough to measure the mass of a single
atom of gold at room temperature. “For the past 15 years or
so, the Holy Grail of (nanoelectromechanical systems) has been
to push them to a small enough size with high enough sensitivity
so that they might resolve the mass of a single molecule or
even single atom,” said physicist Alex Zettl, who led the
research and who holds joint appointments at the Energy
Department’s Berkeley Lab and the University of California-
Berkeley. “This has been a challenge even at cryogenic
temperatures where reduced thermal noise improves the
sensitivity,” said Zettl. “We have achieved sub-single-atom
resolution at room temperature.” Using their new carbon nanotube
mass sensor, Zettl — along with researchers Kenneth Jensen and
Kwanpyo Kim — weighed individual gold atoms and measured masses
as small as two-fifths that of a gold atom in little more than
1 second. The research is detailed in the journal Nature.

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GLAST detects 12 gamma-ray bursts

The U.S. space agency says its new orbiting gamma-ray telescope,
still in its checkout phase, has detected 12 powerful gamma-ray
bursts. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s
Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, has been on
orbit for slightly more than 40 days. The gamma-ray bursts,
NASA said, were detected by the GLAST Burst Monitor, or GBM,
which is one of two instruments on the spacecraft. “We are
thrilled to be detecting gamma-ray bursts so early in the
mission. GLAST and the GBM are off to a great start!” said
Charles Meegan, the GBM principal investigator at NASA’s
Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. “The detectors
are working well and we’re really pleased with how the instrument
is working.” NASA said GLAST will observe gamma rays ranging
in energy from a few thousand electron volts to many hundreds
of billions of electron volts or higher — the widest range
of coverage ever available on a single spacecraft for gamma
ray studies. The GLAST mission is an astrophysics and particle
physics partnership, developed in collaboration with scientists
in France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Sweden.