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Flies' eyes could enhance robot vision

May 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 19 vote(s) | pda version

Robots with flies' eyes could take advantage of the insect’s vision system to better locate the edges and boundaries of objects. This ability could help robots perform a variety of tasks more quickly and accurately ...


Genetic 'tag team' keeps cells on cycle

May 07, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

By surveying the activity of thousands of genes at several different time points, researchers at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy have uncovered new evidence that a network of influential genes act as a kind ...


Rocks under the northern ocean are found to resemble ones far south

Apr 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 11 vote(s) | pda version

Scientists probing volcanic rocks from deep under the frozen surface of the Arctic Ocean have discovered a special geochemical signature until now found only in the southern hemisphere. The rocks were dredged ...


Scientists make chemical cousin of DNA for use as new nanotechnology building block

Apr 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 16 vote(s) | pda version

In the rapid and fast-growing world of nanotechnology, researchers are continually on the lookout for new building blocks to push innovation and discovery to scales much smaller than the tiniest speck of dust.


On shaky ground: UH Prof finds geological faults threaten Houston

Apr 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 12 vote(s) | pda version

After finding more than 300 surface faults in Harris County, a University of Houston geologist now has information that could be vitally useful to the region’s builders and city planners.


Aspire36, Aspire Lite supplements recalled

Mar 10, 2008 | User rating: 2 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the nationwide recall of Aspire36 and Aspire Lite dietary supplements due to a safety issue.


Unique Martian formation reproduced, reveals brief bursts of water

Feb 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 16 vote(s) | pda version

Blacksburg, Va. – Researchers from the United States and the Netherlands report that several formations on Mars indicate incidents of rapid release of water from the planet’s interior.


Amazing minaturized 'SIDECAR' drives Webb telescope's signal

Feb 20, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | pda version

Many technologies have become so advanced that they've been miniaturized to take up less space and weigh less. That's what happened to detector controls and data conversion electronics on the James Webb Space ...


Very large array retooling for 21st-century science

Feb 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | pda version

An international project to make the world's most productive ground-based telescope 10 times more capable has reached its halfway mark and is on schedule to provide astronomers with an extremely powerful new tool for exploring ...


Past greenhouse warming events provide clues to what the future may hold

Feb 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 24 vote(s) | pda version

If carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels continue on a "business-as-usual" trajectory, humans will have added about 5 trillion metric tons of carbon to the atmosphere by the year 2400. ...


Astronomers discover scaled-down Jupiter and Saturn in a faraway solar system like our own

Feb 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 47 vote(s) | pda version

An international team of astronomers has discovered two planets that resemble smaller versions of Jupiter and Saturn in a solar system nearly 5,000 light years away. The find suggests that our galaxy hosts ...


IMEC realized full CMOS multiple antenna receiver for 60 GHz

Feb 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 4 vote(s) | pda version

At today’s IEEE International Solid State Circuit Conference, IMEC introduced its prototype of a 60GHz multiple antenna receiver, and invites industry to join its 60GHz research program. The 60GHz band offers ...


New kind of transistor radios shows capability of nanotube technology

Jan 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 30 vote(s) | pda version

Carbon nanotubes have a sound future in the electronics industry, say researchers who built the world’s first all-nanotube transistor radios to prove it.


Technique enhances digital television viewing for visually-impaired

Jan 15, 2008 | pda version

Scientists at Schepens Eye Research Institute have found that people with low vision can improve their ability to see and enjoy television with a new technique that allows them to enhance the contrast of images of people ...


New buffer resists pH change, even as temperature drops

Jan 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | pda version

Researchers at the University of Illinois have found a simple solution to a problem that has plagued scientists for decades: the tendency of chemical buffers used to maintain the pH of laboratory samples to lose their efficacy ...


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