Computer scientists deploy first practical, Web-based, secure, verifiable voting system
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Computer scientists affiliated with the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS), based at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in collaboration with scientists at the Université ...
Scientists closer to making invisibility cloak a reality
Mar 05, 2009 |
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J.K. Rowling may not have realized just how close Harry Potter's invisibility cloak was to becoming a reality when she introduced it in the first book of her best-selling fictional series in 1998. Scientists, however, have ...
Economists say copyright and patent laws are killing innovation; hurting economy
Mar 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Abolishing patent and copyright laws sounds radical, but two economists at Washington University in St. Louis say it's an idea whose time has come. Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine see innovation as a ...
Sunlight turns carbon dioxide to methane
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Dual catalysts may be the key to efficiently turning carbon dioxide and water vapor into methane and other hydrocarbons using titania nanotubes and solar power, according to Penn State researchers.
Archaeologists find earliest known domestic horses
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of archaeologists has uncovered the earliest known evidence of horses being domesticated by humans. The discovery suggests that horses were both ridden and milked. The ...
Geologists map rocks to soak CO2 from air
Mar 05, 2009 |
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A new report by scientists at Columbia University's Earth Institute and the US Geological Survey points to an abundant supply of carbon-trapping rock in the US that could be used to help stabilize global warming. ...
Ocean's journey towards the center of the Earth
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 05, 2009 |
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A Monash geoscientist and a team of international researchers have discovered the existence of an ocean floor was destroyed 50 to 20 million years ago, proving that New Caledonia and New Zealand are geographically ...
Engineers ride 'rogue' laser waves to build better light sources
Mar 05, 2009 |
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A freak wave at sea is a terrifying sight. Seven stories tall, wildly unpredictable, and incredibly destructive, such waves have been known to emerge from calm waters and swallow ships whole. But rogue waves ...
Putting the Pressure on Iron-Based Superconductors
Mar 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Traditionally, magnetism and superconductivity don't mix. For more than 20 years, the only known superconductors that worked at so-called "high" temperatures (above 30 K, or about -406 degrees ...
Asus Reveals Their Dual Touchscreen Flipbook and Eee Keyboard At CeBit 2009
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At CeBit 2009, Asus has revealed an array of Eee PC products, one being a touchscreen Flipbook PC. It can be used as a laptop, an e-book reader or a multimedia machine for watching movies, ...
Natural gas as answer to oil decline could lead to catastrophe, says leading expert
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Ploughing resources into the use of natural gas as an alternative energy supply could lead to global shortage within 20 years time, according to a leading energy expert.
Venezuela unveils 14-dollar mobile phone
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Venezuela is to start selling in May a mobile phone it is billing as one of the world's cheapest: a 14-dollar handset that includes an MP3 player, radio and camera.
Buckyballs could keep water systems flowing
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Microscopic particles of carbon known as buckyballs may be able to keep the nation's water pipes clear in the same way clot-busting drugs prevent arteries from clogging up.
Japan astronaut to try flying carpet in space lab: official
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 05, 2009 |
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A Japanese astronaut going to space this month will try to fly on a carpet, use eyedrops in zero gravity and meet a series of other off-beat challenges, a space agency official said Thursday.
NASA's Mars Rover Spirit Faces Circuitous Route
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Loose soil piled against the northern edge of a low plateau called "Home Plate" has blocked NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit from taking the shortest route toward its southward destinations ...
