Until recently researchers had little clue what molecular changes drive melanoma's rapid growth.

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We're not going to front like we understand exactly how it works, but two IBM researchers in California have announced that they've gotten closer to controlling the orientation and magnetic spin of individual iron atoms on a copper surface, which would have huge implications for nanotech storage -- imagine the basic tech in your hard drive shrunk down the molecular level.

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Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young "for their discovery of molecular mechanisms underlying circadian rhythms, " the committee said, which are guided by biological clocks and drive the waking and sleeping cycle.

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