Photonic quantum technologies could be only light years away
Aug 30, 2007 |
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Photonic quantum information science could soon move out of the laboratory and be used in future technologies like quantum computers thanks to a grant of over £1 million.
Philips introduces the 3D WOWzone multi-screen wall
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 30, 2007 |
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Philips is introducing the 3D WOWzone, a large 132inch (335 cm) multi-screen 3D wall, designed to grab people's attention with stunning 3D multimedia presentations. By creating a 'spellbinding' 3D experience, ...
Engineering a new way to see dinosaurs
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 30, 2007 |
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With the eye of an electrical engineer, Nels Peterson is hoping to bring a new, high-tech tool to the field excavation of dinosaurs, a labor of picks, shovels and brushes that has changed little over the past ...
Nanofluids not so super-cool after all
Aug 30, 2007 |
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MIT engineers have shown that nanofluids, which once held promise as a super-coolant, do not have the theoretical cooling capabilities many scientists believed they had.
Television, Internet -- what's next?
Aug 30, 2007 |
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Watch 3-D television without stereo glasses, use screens with-out touching them, download video with no loss of quality – in future this will be the norm for media technology. At the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, ...
Yale scientists use nanotechnology to fight E. coli
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 30, 2007 |
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Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) can kill bacteria like the common pathogen E. coli by severely damaging their cell walls, according to a recent report from Yale researchers in the American Chemical ...
'There's Gold In Them That Exhausts!'
Aug 30, 2007 |
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A University of Leicester research team is working on a new technique for growing nanoparticles which could have extraordinary implications in electronics, medicine, the measurement of atmospheric air and the cleansing of ...
Human Papilloma Virus vaccines may decrease chances of oral cancer
Aug 30, 2007 |
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The Centers for Disease Control report that nearly 25 million women are infected with some form of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Of those, more than three million are thought to have one of the four strains known to cause ...
Space station mating adapter is relocated
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 30, 2007 |
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An International Space Station pressurized docking unit was re-located Thursday to prepare the orbiting laboratory for continued growth.
Wolves find happy hunting grounds in Yellowstone National Park
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Aug 30, 2007 |
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If Mark Boyce could converse with elk, he might give them a word of advice: avoid open, flat, snowy areas near rivers and roads.
How drones find queens: Odorant receptor for queen pheromone identified
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Aug 30, 2007 |
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The mating ritual of the honey bee is a mysterious affair, occurring at dizzying heights in zones identifiable only to a queen and the horde of drones that court her. Now a research team led by the University of Illinois ...
MIT unraveling secrets of red tide
Aug 30, 2007 |
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In work that could one day help prevent millions of dollars in economic losses for seaside communities, MIT chemists have demonstrated how tiny marine organisms likely produce the red tide toxin that periodically ...
Spallation Neutron Source: America Regains Leadership with World Record
Aug 30, 2007 |
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The Spallation Neutron Source, the Department of Energy's $1.4 billion research facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has established a new record as the world's most powerful accelerator based source of neutrons for ...
Fireproofing homes dramatically reduces forest fire size, according to new study
Aug 30, 2007 |
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A new study involving the University of Colorado at Boulder that modeled the spread of forest fires in Colorado and other western states indicates the size and intensity of fires is directly linked with the ...
Advance in effort to fight malaria by tricking the mosquito's sense of smell
Biology /
Aug 30, 2007 |
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By mapping a specialized sensory organ that the malaria mosquito uses to zero in on its human prey, an international team of researchers has taken an important step toward developing new and improved repellants and attractants ...
