April 12, 2005
- MareNostrum, Europe's most powerful (and the world's fourth most powerful) supercomputer, is booted up for the first time in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain. (BusinessWeek)
- A German research team have developed a laser that can detect cancerous cells by measuring the elasticity of biopsied cells. Healthy cells have a cytoskeleton making them relatively rigid, cancerous cells have a diminished cytoskeleton and are stretchy. (Nature)
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“I, Alphonso, live and learn,
Seeing Nature go astern.
Things deteriorate in kind;
Lemons run to leaves and rind;
Meagre crop of figs and limes;
Shorter days and harder times.
Flowering April cools and dies
In the insufficient skies.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)