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During transport and storage, proteins are very prone to suffering degradation, or losing their active properties. Excipients such as polyethylene glycol are used to stabilize them, but experts now announce the development of special polymers that could do this more effectively.
The materials are capable of stabiliz... |
22 May 2012
08:29 GMT |
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Chinese experts were able a few weeks back to set a new world record for the distance over which teleportation is possible. The Asian group announced that it managed to teleport data over a little less than 100 kilometers (60 miles), but now European researchers set a new record. A group of physicists was able to t... |
21 May 2012
09:43 GMT |
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Researchers at the University College London (UCL), in the United Kingdom, announce the development of a Resistive RAM memory (ReRAM) chip made up entirely of pure silicon oxide.
This achievement opens up a new avenue of research for creating super-fast computer memory chips, which would operate considerably faster... |
21 May 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Rust is the worst enemy of many iron- and steel-based products, so coatings need to be used in order to protect them from corrosion. This is usually done with compounds containing a carcinogenic element called hexavalent chromium, but graphene may provide a safer, more efficient solution.
Hexavalent chromium is a kn... |
21 May 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) have been under research for years, but their high costs have thus far prevented their widespread implementation. Now, a system created by experts in the US could make it easier for fossil fuel-powered electrical plants to reduce their emissions.
Greenhouse gases have been demonstrat... |
21 May 2012
05:30 GMT |
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Jade Raymond, who is currently the leader of the new Toronto studio of Ubisoft, has said that the gaming industry needs to embrace innovation and the only way to do that is to get more publishers try and change the way the industry works. Raymond, one of the core developers behind the initial success of Assassin&rsq... |
14 May 2012
10:33 GMT |
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Stanford University investigators have created a new type of retinal implant, which can partially restore vision in people who suffer from the effects of accidents or medical conditions. The implants contain photovoltaic cells, which means that they can be powered by light.
The designers of the medical device say t... |
14 May 2012
05:47 GMT |
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A team of experts believes that thermal computers would be a lot more energy-efficient than current devices in this class. They say that the new electronics would run on heat, rather than the flow of electrons through a circuit.
In modern computers, heat is the main problems. As processors and other components are ... |
14 May 2012
05:31 GMT |
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Being able to recharge your mobile devices as you do everyday tasks is something that was recently brought closer to reality by experts at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
Scientists here announce the creation of an electricity generator that uses harmles... |
14 May 2012
04:58 GMT |
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A group of German researchers have managed for the first time ever to develop a pentamode metamaterial. This is a material in which shear parameters are equal to zero, and compression is the only value that is not zero. The state of water is the ideal state of such a metamaterial as well.
Experts with the research ... |
11 May 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Invisibility cloaks moved out of the realm of science fiction, and into reality, several years ago, but scientists are still having problems covering some regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Now, a team of experts says that optical cloaks could be based on nanoscale silicon spheres. The same materials have bee... |
10 May 2012
09:54 GMT |
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University of Michigan (U-M) investigators say that they are currently developing improved, portable gas sensors. The devices will be used to sniff out markers indicating the presence of explosives, diagnose diseases by analyzing breath, and detect accumulations of dangerous chemicals.
Such sensors have been around ... |
10 May 2012
05:46 GMT |
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A new device being developed by a team of scientists at Stony Brook University will soon be able to detect conditions ranging from diabetes, asthma and kidney problems to lung cancer by analyzing a single breath patients blow into it.
Called the Single Breath Disease Diagnostics Breathalyzer, the instrument is bein... |
7 May 2012
07:32 GMT |
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Experts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Aerospace Robotics and Control Laboratory (ARCL) announce the successful development of a flying robot capable of perching on a human hand at landing.
This is made possible by sophisticated control algorithms, coupled with an innovative design of th... |
7 May 2012
04:48 GMT |
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Starting today, the number of Microsoft Research labs around the world will increase with the debut of a New York City lab, the Redmond-based software giant has announced. Microsoft has already expanded its reach around the world with 12 labs available across four continents, and it is now making a new step towards... |
3 May 2012
07:33 GMT |
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Light pulses that in some ways travel faster than the speed of light can be produced artificially. Recently, scientists at the US National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new way of creating such superluminal pulses.
Details of their research appears in a paper entitled “Stimulat... |
3 May 2012
03:46 GMT |
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US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) scientists announce the development of improved optical tweezers, devices that can manipulate nanoscale particles by using a beam of light.
The reason these instruments are called tweezers is that they act with pinpoint accuracy, grappling nanoparticles and t... |
3 May 2012
03:22 GMT |
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Black silicon solar cells developed by a collaboration of researchers in the United States are capable of absorbing more than 99.7 percent of all sunlight that falls on them. This level of photon absorption is significantly higher than that of any other solar cell on the market today.
Other devices of this class ab... |
30 April 2012
11:00 GMT |
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Using a wet chemistry process, a collaboration of experts in the United States is now able to manufacture nanometer-sized semiconductor particles called colloidal quantum dots. These nanoscale structures can produce either red, green or blue light.
This is a remarkable achievement, primarily because lasers available... |
30 April 2012
07:42 GMT |
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Scientists at the Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) develop a new type of glass that eliminates glare, is capable of cleaning itself, does not get wet, and does not allow fogging to occur. Researchers basically managed to eliminate light reflections from glass. The video embedded below sho... |
26 April 2012
05:59 GMT |
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A scientific instrument that can handle materials science-related problems like no conventional computer can has just been developed by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physicists, in the United States.
According to the research team, the new quantum simulator is capable of modeling up to 10 ti... |
26 April 2012
03:37 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Sheffield, in the UK, and the Laser Zentrum Hannover, in Germany, say that they are currently working on a new method for aiding neural growth. Their approach could come in handy for people who've suffered recoverable nerve damage.
The approach is primarily developed for people ... |
23 April 2012
05:16 GMT |
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Video game developer Greg Johnson, best known for the Toejam and Earl video game of the early ‘90s, is apparently working with Sony on a new video game that is described as charming, quirky and emotional.
A job posting for the position of lead designer at HumanNature, Johnston’s company, says that the de... |
20 April 2012
15:01 GMT |
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A new class of electronic memory technologies was developed by experts at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB), and the National Nano Device Laboratories, in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The technology can store and erase data 10 to 100 times faster than existing charge-storage memories.This was made possible through t... |
19 April 2012
11:53 GMT |
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Scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, in Germany, and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CRNS) say that graphene can potentially be used to create a tool capable of focusing electrons. The instrument would work just like an optical lens does for light.In a paper published in the Amer... |
19 April 2012
11:40 GMT |
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An international collaboration featuring American and Israeli researchers announces the creation of a power source for electric motors that is a little bit unconventional. The group has recently developed a method of extracting energy from clams.
In a study that appears to be inspired by the blockbuster “The ... |
19 April 2012
06:05 GMT |
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Dresden, Germany-based startup Heliatek announces the development of an innovative solar panel design, which uses polyester films and small organic molecules for producing electricity from sunlight.
The devices are significantly more efficient at converting photons into electrons than existing technologies, but they... |
19 April 2012
03:15 GMT |
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Taking complex systems such as the Internet and social networks as examples, a group of experts at the University of Cambridge was able to create a mathematical model of the brain. Though simple, their tool provides a surprisingly complete statistical account of how different regions interact.
This is one of the mos... |
12 April 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Using solution-processed organic semiconductors, researchers with the University of Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory managed to achieve a breakthrough in the field of plastic electronics.
The team may have set the foundation for developing fast and flexible plastic electronics that consume only limited amounts... |
9 April 2012
05:47 GMT |
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In a first-of-its-kind achievement, investigators at the Stanford University were recently able to introduce a property called piezoelectricity into a nanoscale material. The substrate they selected was graphene, one of the most remarkable compounds in the world.
Graphene is a 2D carbon compound that boasts a hexago... |
4 April 2012
05:16 GMT |
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Microsoft is getting ready to announce the 2012 Global Microsoft Next winners, and has just opened voting for “People’s Choice” award in this competition. Driven by the idea of bringing innovation into people’s lives, the company kicked off the Microsoft Next competition, encouraging people ... |
2 April 2012
08:26 GMT |
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Scientists with the Distributed Robotics Laboratory (DRL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) announce the development of algorithms that could enable the creation of smart sand.
The material could be used to create reconfigurable robots... |
2 April 2012
05:41 GMT |
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The microfluidic device – also known as the lab-on-a-chip – is a new technology that can be used for a variety of applications, including disease diagnostics, water and blood analysis, particle selection, and so on. Now, researchers in the United States want to bring it into the spotlight.
These devices ... |
29 March 2012
05:58 GMT |
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Drawing inspiration from a toy they came across by accident, investigators at the Massachusetts Institutes of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, managed to develop a buckliball, a collapsible structure that features no moving parts. See the video below for a quick glimpse of the buckliball.
The group was actually tryi... |
27 March 2012
03:24 GMT |
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A number of video game developers have recently attacked the Japanese video game industry and its apparent lack of originality and one of the strongest critics have said that lack of creative vision is to blame for many of the problems others have noticed.
Speaking to Gamasutra Keiji Inafune, who is one of the core ... |
26 March 2012
19:51 GMT |
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Researchers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) announce the development of a new fluorescent biosensor, which relies on the natural glowing abilities of microscopic marine algae called diatoms.
One of the most remarkable things about these microorganisms is that... |
23 March 2012
10:47 GMT |
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A small cylinder developed by an international collaboration of researchers can conceal itself, and everything it contains, from machines such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging scanners or airport security devices. The cloak was created by experts from Spain and Slovakia.
The basic operating principle behind the cylind... |
23 March 2012
08:27 GMT |
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In a first-of-its-kind experiment, researchers were able to determine the pathways used by electrical charges, as they are transported from one molecule to the next, inside organic thin films. The finding could lead to the development of brighter organic electronic devices.
But perhaps the most significant implicat... |
22 March 2012
07:15 GMT |
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Physicists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (Brookhaven Lab) say that they may have found a solution for efficiently storing hydrogen. This discovery could have significant practical applications, especially for developing electric vehicles with a longer range. Scientists ha... |
20 March 2012
19:11 GMT |
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Investigators at the Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, have created hybrid snails, which they say are able to produce electricity. The group, led by scientist Evgeny Katz, inserted tiny biofuel cells into the mollusks, which work by extracting electricity from the glucose and oxygen in the blood.
This appro... |
19 March 2012
03:59 GMT |
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University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) investigators announce the development of a new type of electrodes, to be used in advanced power sources that combine the power performance of capacitors with the high energy density of batteries.
Such a power source is the goal of numerous studies being conducted aroun... |
16 March 2012
05:52 GMT |
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Since launching massive surveillance and intelligence satellites is extremely expensive, the US military is currently turning to alternative options for boosting its presence on the battlefield. One of its agencies is interested in building a constellation of small, cheap and disposable spacecraft.
These assets wou... |
16 March 2012
05:23 GMT |
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Halo was recently described as being one of the biggest franchises in the world of gaming by executives at Microsoft, and the fourth core game in the series will have to walk a fine line between familiar content and new concepts in order to keep gamers interested.
CVG asked Josh Holmes, the creative director at 343 ... |
14 March 2012
19:41 GMT |
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Microprocessors on the market today come with a varied number of processing cores, ranging from 1 to 12. But manufacturers that want to produce 24-core or 48-core chips cannot be sure that their designs would work when completed. This is why researchers have created a simulation for these devices.
Scientists at the... |
9 March 2012
17:01 GMT |
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A team of experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, announces the development of a new type of metamaterials, which they say can absorb light at multiple wavelengths with extreme efficiency.
The accomplishment could open the way for a brand-new generation of optical sensors and adva... |
9 March 2012
16:31 GMT |
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According to a new scientific paper published in the March 9 issue of the top journal Science, a new type of polymer is perfectly capable of creating 3D structures, once it's submerged in water. The material originally comes as sheets, its developers say. University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMA) investigators ... |
9 March 2012
02:54 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the Ohio State University announces that it managed to capture images of two atoms vibrating within a molecule. This is the first time direct observations of this phenomena were conducted.
The experiment was made possible through the use of a new, ultra-fast camera, able to produce real... |
8 March 2012
08:27 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has just released a new review video of the first-ever launch of the Vega delivery system. The small rocket has joined the organization's rocket pool, and now sits alongside the Russian-built, medium-lift Soyuz and Arianespace's heavy-lift Ariane 5.
The first Vega launch mar... |
7 March 2012
11:07 GMT |
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Waltham, Massachusetts-based Boston Dynamics recently showcased a robot that is capable of running very fast on four legs. Called the Cheetah, the machine broke a record set in 1989, and is now the fastest-running robot of its class in the world.
During a recent series of experiments, scientists managed to make the... |
6 March 2012
13:01 GMT |
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While recycling aluminum beats processing the raw ore needed to produce the alloy ever day of the week, experts draw attention to the fact that repeated recycling of various products made out of the stuff leads to impurities building up within.
On average, it's between 9 and 18 times more energy-efficient to r... |
6 March 2012
08:34 GMT |
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