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Scientists at the I-STEM Institute have recently announced the development of a new type of artificial skin cells, which was obtained directly from human embryonic stem cells. In a paper published in the November 21 issue of the scientific journal Lancet, the team reports that the entire epidermis was created using h... |
20 November 2009
10:49 GMT |
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Containers at the nanoscale are nothing new, as they have been demonstrated for several years, but innovative, new applications and improvements appear almost daily. In a new research, scientists at the Washington University in St. Louis (WUSL) have managed to produce a new type of nanocage that is able to open and r... |
20 November 2009
06:55 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) have recently discovered that defects that are artificially induced in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) may have the ability to significantly boost research in the field of supercapacitors. The scientists behind the innovation explain that these devices incorporat... |
20 November 2009
02:48 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have recently developed a new type of nanostructures, which act in very much the same way fly paper does when it comes to catching, well, flies. The small structures are injected into the bloodstream, where they attract free-moving cancer cells, also kn... |
19 November 2009
06:44 GMT |
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Scientists from the US Air Force (USAF) Academy are currently working on a new method of making wave energy readily available for harvest. The technology will be able to exceed the current limitations that plague the industry, and could result in power plants that can better withstand the rigors of the sea, while at ... |
19 November 2009
04:06 GMT |
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Javier Atencia is an investigator that spent a lot of time toying with microfluidic devices, the small, scientific instruments made up of tiny channels that conduct fluids, which can be used for a very wide array of applications, including water diagnostics and decontamination. Like others before him, he came to the ... |
18 November 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Experts at the Tel Aviv University (TAU) Department of Biomedical Engineering recently announced the development of a new type of wound dressing, designed primarily to benefit severe burn-trauma victims. In spite of the doctors' best efforts, a large number of people – nearly 70 percent of all patients &nd... |
18 November 2009
06:43 GMT |
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For the past two decades, people using computers have been blessed and cursed to use mice and keyboards in order to input information into their machines. Over the years, these two components evolved to fulfill more and more complex tasks, but, for various types of applications, they simply no longer cut it. Drawing,... |
18 November 2009
05:24 GMT |
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A robotics convention saw last week the introduction of a new vehicle able to perform on-the-go 3D measurements and maps of a certain area. The new machine, called ROAMS, was built from commercially available, off-the-shelf parts, with funds provided by the US Army. The Remotely Operated and Autonomous Mapping System... |
18 November 2009
04:51 GMT |
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Nintendo is the biggest winner of the current console generation, with its Wii home console managing to consistently beat the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 when it comes to sales, despite having less storage space and a less powerful graphics engine, thanks to the impressive and forward looking motion tracking contr... |
16 November 2009
03:46 GMT |
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To military applications, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are becoming increasingly indispensable and useful. These aircraft, which are currently flown by remote controls, are able to reach dangerous areas that are deemed too hazardous for human pilots. Their small sizes also make them difficult to detect with convent... |
16 November 2009
03:11 GMT |
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Solar power is the most abundant source of renewable energy in the world today, rivaled only by wind power and geothermal energy. The Sun will indeed rise every day when expected, at least for the next four to five billion years, so harvesting its energy is a long-term objective. Existing solar cells can easily trap ... |
15 November 2009
04:58 GMT |
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Scientists at the Tucson, Arizona-based Sion Power Corporation (SPC) have recently been awarded an $800,000, three-year grant for studying the complex properties of lithium-sulfur batteries. The company is a world leader in the field, with more than 100 national and international patents on the technology pending or ... |
15 November 2009
04:43 GMT |
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have recently moved ahead of the “pack” in terms of piezoelectric research. The effect refers to traits that certain types of ceramics and composite materials have, of producing electrical potential wh... |
14 November 2009
05:00 GMT |
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At this point, optical fiber is able to focus beams of light into extremely narrow space. AS light travels through the wire, the latter gets narrower and narrower, until it finally reaches a thickness of only a few hundred nanometers. From that moment on – depending on the wavelength of the light itself –... |
13 November 2009
21:31 GMT |
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In their quest for ever-smaller and ever-faster computer chips and transistors, scientists have, over the past few years, dedicated enormous amounts of time, energy, and money to producing electronics at the smallest scale possible. This has gone all well and good for some years, but now this field of research is app... |
13 November 2009
18:31 GMT |
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Many of us have old, treasured books that have been in our families for generations. These records of events that were, either historical or literary, are extremely important to some, who would love nothing more than to see their old books restored to their former glory. Now, scientists have discovered a new way in w... |
13 November 2009
08:32 GMT |
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have recently developed a new type of nanostructures that is extremely efficient in capturing, filtering and steering light at the nanoscale. The group, based at the Berkeley Lab Molecular Foundry, says that th... |
13 November 2009
06:42 GMT |
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Scientists and engineers at the Imperial College London (ICL), in the United Kingdom, were recently awarded a new, £4.9-million ($8.1-million) grant to investigate the properties of metamaterials. The money, which came from The Leverhulme Trust, are destined for the creation of invisibility cloaks and perf... |
12 November 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Since they first appeared, at the end of the 19th century, contact lenses have brought forth a new age in treating diseases of the eye, eliminating the need for glasses, and hiding the handicap from prying eyes. Over the past decades, the production process related to these lenses has also evolved spectacularly, and ... |
12 November 2009
15:31 GMT |
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Computer tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans have become so popular with doctors and patients since their creation, that massive volumes of data on virtually anything in the human body have been obtained. Scientists at the Iowa State University (ISU) have recently decided that the information i... |
12 November 2009
07:03 GMT |
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Over the past few years, the amount of work that has gone into determining the characteristics of silicon nanowires has increased considerably, mostly because they represent the future of the electronics industry, right next to their carbon nanotube cousins. In their search for ever-smaller technologies, manufacturer... |
12 November 2009
06:43 GMT |
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Scientists from a number of departments at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have recently announced the development of a new structure, which combines the “talent” that DNA has for self-assembly with the amazing chemical and physical properties of carbon nanotubes (CNT). The nanoscale elec... |
11 November 2009
09:21 GMT |
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The Planetary Society has again announced plans of testing a solar sail prototype, which it hopes to have built in a spacecraft, and then launched by the end of next year. The mission would essentially attempt to harness the power of solar winds for propulsion, a feat that has been advertised for a long time, but tha... |
11 November 2009
01:55 GMT |
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Over the past decades, deciphering the human genome has been one of the main endeavors of the scientific community. The first genome sequencing was announced in the mid-1990s, and, since then, experts have been working on mapping the locations of all genes involved in any given process inside the body. This is an ext... |
10 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Carbon nanotubes are among the most promising materials under investigation today, having the ability to set the foundation for a large number of innovations, ranging from new medicines to communication grids and space elevators. Only one problem plagued this field of research, and that was the maximum attainable len... |
10 November 2009
10:45 GMT |
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Scientists have known for quite a long time that whales communicate through their song, those long sounds that they make when being relatively close to each other. Some of the clicks can even be heard miles away, and picked up by other whales, if noise pollution and sonar sounds don't mask them. Now, scientists ... |
10 November 2009
03:25 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, the pace of innovation is accelerating. The past few decades have seen more and more inventions hitting the market, but, around the world, scientists have been raising their eyebrows at the direction in which science in general is going. There is very little emphasis being placed on the common good at th... |
9 November 2009
11:01 GMT |
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The European Union has already commissioned a new study, which aims at discovering the costs, opportunities and possible obstacles that would hinder the development of a new system of using public roads. The officials want to learn if it would be possible to create what they refer to as “road trains”, whi... |
9 November 2009
09:11 GMT |
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Scientists in the United States have recently revealed in a new study that, when given the proper conditions, all types of adult cells in the body can revert back to a stem cell-like appearance and function. The find is extremely important when considering the fact that these cells represent the future of medicine. I... |
9 November 2009
02:55 GMT |
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While the global financial crisis wrecks havoc in workplace, forcing employers to fire many people, there are sectors that are still in desperate need of skilled workers. One such sector is that related to the production of polishing injection molds. These structures are extremely difficult to manufacture, and requir... |
7 November 2009
20:01 GMT |
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Scientists have developed a new method that allows robots to remember relevant pieces of information from the sea of data they collect from the environment, by emulating the way human memory works. Each individual is able to recall the most important things about a certain period or event, but all the useless details... |
7 November 2009
07:06 GMT |
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Magnetic nanoparticles (mNPs) have been heavily researched for the past ten years, and serious advancements have been made during this time. Studies have resulted in these structures being made capable to carry white blood cells, deadly agents to counteract infections or tumors at specific locations in the body. Othe... |
6 November 2009
10:58 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking, new discovery that may have significant implications for anything from energy production and global-warming mitigation to creating better and cheaper medicines and fuels, scientists at the University of Utah have recently managed to find out numerous new data on the general action mechanism of ca... |
6 November 2009
10:12 GMT |
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In a find that could change the way lung diseases are being treated at this point, experts have managed to obtain fully functional lung cells from human embryonic stem cells for the first time ever. The Belgian science team that has been behind the new accomplishment was able to make them differentiate in a very conv... |
5 November 2009
20:51 GMT |
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Measuring dimensions is something that comes natural to a laser, especially if we are talking about small distances. Inside a room, a good laser system can determine everything there is to determine in a manner of seconds. But the main issue plaguing these systems has until now been the fact that they did not operate... |
5 November 2009
09:06 GMT |
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People get burnt, literally and figuratively, far worse and more often than anyone could imagine. Experts working in hospital Emergency Rooms (ER) often get patients with nasty, second-degree burns that need immediate attention. In some of the more unfortunate cases, people need to be treated with a skin graft, which... |
5 November 2009
08:28 GMT |
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Scientists at the technology company Novateq Guerrero SNL have recently announced the development of a new type of linear transport system, one that is absolutely clean and does not harm the environment. The system draws its energy in part from the permanent magnetic fields that certain magnetic materials generate at... |
5 November 2009
07:04 GMT |
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The American space agency has great plans for the future, including the prospect of colonizing the Moon and sending astronaut expeditions to the Red Planet. However, all of these ambitious plans are heavily reliant on one thing, and that is the ability to produce things off-world. For example, manufacturing space par... |
5 November 2009
03:12 GMT |
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Near Field Communication, also known as NFC, is a technology that allows for very short-range wireless communication between two mobile devices, for example. The touch-based system is very simple and intuitive to use, and makes data transfers between two terminals accessible. All that users need to do is bring their ... |
4 November 2009
14:51 GMT |
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In a recent poll, in which 10,000 people got the chance to have their say, the X-ray machine was voted as the most important innovation of the century. More than 50,000 votes were recorded in the Science Museum of London inquiry, which saw X-rays defeat things like penicillin and steam engine. All of the ten objects ... |
4 November 2009
06:23 GMT |
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People usually take many things for granted, including the ability to always appear in motion in a static world. The human brain is able to receive constant updates from all its sensors – eyes, ears, skin, nose and so on – and then update our position in real-time. When this happens cursively, we understa... |
4 November 2009
04:41 GMT |
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For a very long time, scientists have dreamed about combining electronics with the human body, and now it would appear that they have succeeded. A group of experts managed to create a type of circuit that essentially dissolved into the human body. The way they accomplished that was by combining thin, flexible silicon... |
3 November 2009
09:03 GMT |
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) announce the completion of a new type of solar cells, one that may not need to be located on traditional surfaces, such as rooftops. The innovation makes use of nanostructures grown directly on optical fibers, and coated with light-sensitive dyes. This ... |
3 November 2009
06:10 GMT |
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Learning how to control a plasma flow is something that is absolutely essential in the field of nuclear-fusion research. At this point, physicists keep the stuff in place using magnetic confinement fields, but the method is worthless if the experts don't know what plasma can and cannot do, and also how it behave... |
3 November 2009
04:05 GMT |
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Sleep apnea is a very widespread condition today, especially among people living in highly urbanized areas and subjected to large amounts of pollution. It is characterized by regular breathing stopping from time to time during sleep, mostly because of blockages that appear in the respiratory pathways. The reason why ... |
3 November 2009
02:35 GMT |
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Working together with the market-leading supplier of wind-power solutions, Vestas Wind Systems, QinetiQ has recently managed to demonstrate a new wind-turbine blade design that supposedly represents a unique radar mitigation technology for the developing industry. QinetiQ, a renowned technology provider and consultan... |
2 November 2009
20:41 GMT |
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When scientists get to work on a specific drug, they usually design it in a manner that they believe is only suitable for treating a single medical condition. However, over the years, it has become apparent that, while this may be the case for some types of medication, the limitation does not apply to all substances.... |
2 November 2009
01:48 GMT |
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Lung diseases such as cancer and edema can easily cause a person to die, if advanced enough. For these people, getting a lung transplant is oftentimes the only chance they have at life. In the United States alone, there are currently over 1,800 people waiting on transplant lists, but the thing is that insufficient or... |
30 October 2009
11:59 GMT |
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Measuring the frequencies of visible light is not exactly the most difficult thing to do, but a team of experts at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST), in the United States, and the University of Konstanz, in Germany, has just finished developing a new tool that will make this process ev... |
30 October 2009
08:07 GMT |
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