Vehicles That Talk to Each Other Know What Lanes They're In
Dec 18, 2007 |
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A standard GPS receiver has an average 2D-positioning accuracy of about 13 meters. While this precision is high enough to direct you to your hotel, it’s quite a bit lower than the accuracy required to determine ...
Nanowire battery holds 10 times the charge of existing ones
Dec 18, 2007 |
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Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices.
Researchers develop 2-D invisibility cloak
Dec 18, 2007 |
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Harry Potter may not have talked much about plasmonics in J. K. Rowling's fantasy series, but University of Maryland researchers are using this emerging technology to develop an invisibility cloak that exists beyond the world ...
IBM Reveals Five Innovations that Will Change Our Lives Over the Next Five Years
Dec 18, 2007 |
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Unveiled today, the second annual "IBM Next Five in Five" is a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years.
Move over, silicon: Advances pave way for powerful carbon-based electronics
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 18, 2007 |
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Bypassing decades-old conventions in making computer chips, Princeton engineers developed a novel way to replace silicon with carbon on large surfaces, clearing the way for new generations of faster, more powerful cell phones, ...
New dating methods amongst the Top 10 Scientific discoveries of the Year
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 18, 2007 |
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Time Magazine has named a study by Oxford researchers, using new dating techniques on a human skull to help find out where our most recent common ancestor came from, as one of the Top 10 Scientific Discov ...
Supercomputers offer new explanation of Tunguska disaster
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 18, 2007 |
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The stunning amount of forest devastation at Tunguska, a century ago in Siberia, may have been caused by an asteroid only a fraction as large as previously published estimates, Sandia supercomputer simulations ...
Intergalactic 'shot in the dark' shocks astronomers
Dec 18, 2007 |
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A team of astronomers has discovered a cosmic explosion that seems to have come from the middle of nowhere — thousands of light-years from the nearest galaxy-sized collection of stars, gas, and dust. This ...
Metal Foam Has a Good Memory
Dec 18, 2007 |
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In the world of commercial materials, lighter and cheaper is usually better, especially when those attributes are coupled with superior strength and special properties, such as a material's ability to remember ...
Monkeys perform arithmetic as well as college students
Biology /
Dec 18, 2007 |
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Researchers at Duke University have demonstrated that monkeys have the ability to perform mental addition. In fact, monkeys performed about as well as college students given the same test.
Color sudoku puzzle demonstrates new vision for computing
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 18, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Warwick’s Department of Computer Science have developed a colour based Sudoku Puzzle that will help Sudoku players solve traditional Sudoku puzzles but also helps demonstrate ...
Explosives on a chip
Dec 18, 2007 |
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Tiny copper structures with pores at both the nanometer and micron size scales could play a key role in the next generation of detonators used to improve the reliability, reduce the size and lower the cost ...
Virginia Tech students' research could give the Beach Boys a new surfing song
Dec 18, 2007 |
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Surfers in Hawaii had better beware. Four Virginia Tech engineering science and mechanics (ESM) students have completed “Surf Green” for their senior design project, and conclude that they can technically ...
Study Examines Role of Tattoos in Construction of Personal Identity
Dec 18, 2007 |
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Marketing experts know that consumers use products to help construct personal identity. When a person decides to purchase a Hummer rather than a Prius, for instance, that person is also buying a certain lifestyle or attitude. ...
Researchers train the immune system to deliver virus that destroys cancer in lab models
Dec 18, 2007 |
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An international team of researchers led by Mayo Clinic have designed a technique that uses the body’s own cells and a virus to destroy cancer cells that spread from primary tumors to other parts of the body through the lymphatic ...
