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New AFOSR magnetron may help defeat enemy electronics

New AFOSR magnetron may help defeat enemy electronics

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research at the University of Michigan invented a new type of magnetron that may be used to defeat enemy electronics. A magnetron is type of vacuum ...


Taiwan scientists unveil new weapon in swine flu fight

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Taiwanese scientists said Tuesday they had developed an organic compound which could help control the global swine flu epidemic as the worldwide death toll from the disease passed 700.


Taiwanese researchers have revealed that they have developed hydrogen-powered mobile phone chargers

Taiwan unveils hydrogen-powered mobile phone chargers

Technology / Energy

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Taiwanese researchers said Friday they have developed hydrogen-powered mobile phone chargers, in a development that could boost the island's efforts to become a player in green technologies.


A 'bionic nose' that knows

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Both cancer cells and the chemicals used to make bombs can foil detection because they appear in trace amounts too small for conventional detection techniques. Tel Aviv University has developed the ultimate solution: a molecule ...


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US teens feel prepared for careers in science, tech, engineering, math, yet many lack mentors

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

American teens are embracing the subjects of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) with increasingly positive attitudes; yet many lack the necessary encouragement from mentors and role models ...


Engineering tissues and organs

Engineering tissues and organs

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- As a high school sophomore, Asad Moten read a news story about engineering new organs for patients waiting for a transplant, and decided to start his own tissue-engineering project.


Dutch researchers make breakthrough in bioethanol production from agricultural waste

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

With the introduction of a single bacterial gene into yeast, researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands achieved three improvements in bioethanol production from agricultural waste material: 'More ...


Efficient new wireless system can save 10 percent of bandwidth

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Driven by fast-growing use of smart phones and Internet videos, wireless communication among Americans is expanding so rapidly that a tsunami of megabytes could soon threaten to overwhelm the bandwidth available.


Scientists find quick method to make magnets

Scientists find quick method to make magnets

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 29, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (51) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ultra-strong, high-temperature, high-performance permanent magnet compounds, such as Samarium Cobalt, are the mainstay materials for several industries that rely on high-performance motor ...


Frenchman Dimitri Gauer poses with his invention, the 'crustacean peeler'

Economic crisis drives the mothers of invention

Technology / Hi Tech

created Apr 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Crisis is the mother of invention, if one believes the bright sparks behind the gizmos, contraptions, novelties and potions at the international inventions exhibition in the Swiss city of Geneva.


Company Introduces Novel Nanotechnology for Revolutionizing Imaging Using T-rays

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem today announced that Professor L.D. Shvartsman and Professor B. Laikhtman, from the Racah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ...


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World Wide Web conference opens, 20 years after its invention

Technology / Internet

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A global conference on the World Wide Web got under way in Spain Monday, 20 years after the invention of the global information medium that has changed the daily lives of people around the world.


A 'super sensor' for cancer and CSIs

A 'super sensor' for cancer and CSIs

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Like the sensitive seismographs that can pick up tremors of impending earthquakes long before they strike, a similar invention from Tel Aviv University researchers may change the face of molecular biology.


Invention gives improved gene technology analysis

Biology /

created Apr 24, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A patent for a system that gives more reliable results in gene technology-based diagnostic tests has been granted to researchers at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH).


Measuring sound with a nanoscopic air bubble

Measuring sound with a nanoscopic air bubble

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It will soon be possible to measure ultrasonic sound using water, air, light and nanotechnology – over a hundred times more accurately than with existing sensors.