All three have used a method called X-ray crystallography to map the position for each and every one of the hundreds of thousands of atoms that make up the ribosome.

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Like Kinect, these solutions will have a pair of 640 x 480 camera sensors to measure user position in 3D space, but don't expect them to have motorized tilt functionality or voice recognition -- PrimeSense said it won't be able to make those available for manufacturers, as they're all Microsoft ideas.

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Until the 1980s radiation oncologists could only crudely estimate where to aim based on the position of nearby bones in 2-D X rays.

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Once in the applications view, tapping any icon launches the associated app (or bookmark), while holding any icon lets you move it to another position on the grid (or remove it by pressing a little red X, if present).

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Besides, the Brand X decision actually helps VoIP providers, says Citron, by strengthening the position that they are not a telecommunications service and, therefore, should not be subject to the same rules, taxes and fees as traditional phone calls.

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X-rays are easier to pinpoint than gamma rays, so BeppoSAX was able to give astronomers a position for the bursts that was accurate enough to aim a big optical telescope at.

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