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Researchers' vision: restoring sight through artificial retinas

Scientists are testing artificial retinas that they hope can restore partial sight to people who've lost their vision to the most common causes of blindness.

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 30, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0




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The world's slowest clock

(PhysOrg.com) -- National Physical Laboratory is well known for having some of the fastest and most accurate clocks in the world, but now new research with the Scottish Universities Environmental Research ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

NPL and SUERC calibrate a 'rock clock'

New research by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) will improve the accuracy of estimates of the time of geological events. The work centres on the calibration ...

Physics / General Physics

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British butterfly is evolving to respond to climate change

As global temperatures rise and climatic zones move polewards, species will need to find different environments to prevent extinction. New research, published today in the journal Molecular Ecology, has re ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Australia's Antarctic claim 'at risk'

Australia holds the largest claim to Antarctica but risks losing it in any race to unlock the frozen continent's potentially vast mineral and energy resources, an influential thinktank said Monday.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Red-letter day for ailing photo pioneer?

(AP) -- Innovation turned Eastman Kodak Co. into one of the world's most recognizable brands. Imitation by its rivals might help keep the picture-taking pioneer from fading into history.

Technology / Business

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ruling awaited in Kodak patent battle with Apple

(AP) -- After years of wading through a tide of red ink, Eastman Kodak Co. is nearing the end of a potentially lucrative patent fight with tech giants Apple and Research in Motion Ltd.

Technology / Business

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Delay in Kodak patent case against Apple, RIM

(AP) -- The U.S. International Trade Commission is postponing its ruling on photography pioneer Eastman Kodak's patent dispute with tech giants Apple and Research in Motion.

Technology / Business

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nanosized diamonds enable progress in retinal prostheses

Research groups in several countries are making progress in retinal prosthesis development. If they achieve their aims, patients who have gone blind, due to loss of their photoreceptors, could recover a better ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A grain of hope in the desert: Arabian oryx leaps back from near-extinction

(PhysOrg.com) -- The regal Arabian Oryx (Oryx leucoryx), which was hunted to near extinction, is now facing a more secure future according to the latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Its ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

The antenna in the valley

When Galileo Galilei turned his modest “spy glass” towards the stars in the summer of 1609, he opened up new skies. He observed things which no one had ever seen before: mountains and craters on ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 09, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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