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21 concept cars from the Geneva auto show
Gallery: The 2011 Geneva auto show proved a rich ground for concept cars - including electric vehicles, prototypes for production, and some just plain oddball attention-getters.
China Leads U.S. in Clean Energy
Energy innovations could help the U.S. close the clean energy gap with China.
Rarest Rhino Filmed
Critically endangered and rarely seen rhinos with their calves were filmed by WWF in Indonesia with motion-activated cameras. Video.
Meeting the Higgs hunters
With CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) now being fired up after its winter shutdown, physicists at the Geneva lab are gearing up for the first signs of the Higgs boson...
Development team achieves 1 terabit per second data rate on a single integrated photonic chip
With worldwide Internet data traffic increasing by 50 percent each year, telecommunications companies that handle this digital torrent must be able to economically expand the capacities of their networks while...
Data destroying machine sought by Public Works
The federal government has ordered a machine will rip data-storage devices into pieces so tiny that the sensitive information can never be recovered.
Freescale introduces intelligent sensor for car battery monitoring
Freescale Semiconductor today introduced the MM912J637 intelligent battery sensor (IBS), which accurately measures the voltage, current and temperature of lead-acid batteries and calculates the battery state, all while operating in...
Industries look beyond wind, solar energy
MINNETONKA, Minn., Feb. 28 (UPI) -- A massive kite used in the shipping industry could reduce fuel consumption by as much as 35 percent, U.S. agricultural company Cargill announced.
Segregation behaviors and radial distribution of dopant atoms in silicon nanowires
National Institute for Material Science, Japan Science and Technology Agency and University of Tsukuba announced on February 4, 2011 that they succeeded in detecting nondestructively dynamic behaviors of doped impurities...
Rare earths 'replaced' by silicon chip
Rare earths are an expensive and necessary component of strong permanent magnets. However, their use for this purpose can be optimised and thereby reduced. This has been demonstrated in computer...
Catalyst cleans up C-C bond formation
Iridium compound makes carbon–carbon bonds using methanol
Drinking bird
A good understanding of both chemistry and physics is the secret to the popular children's toy, the Drinking BirdWhen was the last time you saw one of these? This classic children's toy...
My favourite particle: the photon
I was talking to my daughter about a star she saw out of her bedroom window the other morning. Actually it was Venus. She had learned at school that some of the...
The Radiation Boom: X-Rays and Unshielded Infants
Radiation errors at SUNY Downstate raise questions about the competence, training and oversight of technologists who operate powerful equipment.
Age-old physics puzzle solved
Scientists have unexpectedly stumbled upon the answer to a 90 year old quantum physics conundrum.
News in Brief: Molecules/Matter & Energy
Quantum states may help explain protein folding, plus more in this week’s news
Andy Jurinko, Painter Whose Art Memorialized Ballparks, Dies at 71
Mr. Jurinko specialized in baseball scenes from 1946 to 1960, like the Ebbets Field sign for Abe Stark’s clothing store.
Brenner awarded Ledlie Prize
Michael Brenner, Glover Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been awarded the George Ledlie Prize by the President and Fellows of...
Chinese nuclear bomb pioneer dies
BEIJING, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Nuclear physicist Zhu Guangya, who helped China develop its first atom and hydrogen bombs, died Saturday at age 87, Xinhua reported.
Shrinking Labs' Carbon Footprint Focus of Sustainability Competition
Washington University in St. Louis student proposes incentive program and metering system to cut electricity use in research labs on campus.
Scent Vacation: original & Cat Engineer version
This Caturday morning, you are getting two smiles for the price of one! Scent Vacation: the original and the inspired cat engineer versionI know you all believe my recent silence was due...
Tiny spy plane flaps wings in demonstration
A project manager in California has demonstrated a tiny spy plane with flapping wings like a hummingbird.
Modular space communications technology moved into unmanned aircraft for Marines
Scientists have successfully taking a small radio receiver intended for space applications and creating a full-featured radio frequency system, initially designed for a Marine Corps unmanned aircraft.
Famed Magnetic Boy Is Probably Just Very Sticky
Miraculous cases of bodily magnetism may simply be explained by greasiness.
Reseasrcher investigates new material grown from sugar
Ordinary table sugar could be a key ingredient to developing much lighter, faster, cheaper, denser and more robust computer electronics for use on U.S. military aircraft.
Spray-on Solar Panels
Chemical engineers are researching new "spray-on" applications for photovoltaic panels. Brian Korgel and his team are testing out nanoparticle "inks" that are designed to be painted on rooftops or the...
UPS gets green fleet
ATLANTA, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Package delivery giant UPS has bought 48 heavy tractor trucks equipped to run on liquefied natural gas.
Carbon For Archimedes (1)
When I was a lad, we were taught that carbon had two allotropes, graphite and diamond. Although they’re both covalently connected, in neither of these is there anything that one...