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Video: 'Big Bang Theory' New Season
Julie Chen talks to the cast of "Big Bang Theory," returning to TV for a fourth season.
FCC To Open TV Airwaves for "Super Wi-Fi"
More Powerful Broadband Channels Will Function like "Wi-Fi on Steroids"
Video: ATM Dispenses Gold
An unique ATM has been unveiled at the lush Westin Palace Hotel in Madrid which dispenses gold to customers in exchange for cash currency. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports.
Newly created material resembles cilia
Scientists recently imitated Mother Nature by developing, for the first time, a new, skinny-molecule-based material that resembles cilia, the tiny, hair-like structures through which organisms derive smell, vision, hearing and...
Einstein's Relativity Is Making Tall People Age Faster Than Short
Scientists know that time passes faster at higher elevations. It's a curious aspect of Einstein's theories of relativity that previously had to be measured by comparing clocks on the Earth's...
'Green week' in the United Kingdom
LONDON, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- A 'green' week in the United Kingdom sees Scotland boost its renewable energy targets and the opening of the world's largest offshore wind farm...
Globe Theatrics
Herbi Dreiner and his students have taken their award-winning particle physics show to Cern, where it went down a stormI'm sitting in the back of the Globe at CERN, Geneva, while the...
Caltech researchers design a new nanomesh material
Computers, light bulbs, and even people generate heat - energy that ends up being wasted. With a thermoelectric device, which converts heat to electricity and vice versa, you can harness...
World's smallest animation character shot with smartphone camera and microscope (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The title character in a 90-second film called "Dot" has broken the Guinness World Record for being the smallest stop-motion animation character in a film. The 9-mm-tall Dot...
Successful sludge-to-power research developed
An experiment to transform wastewater sludge to electrical power, dwarfed by the million-gallon tanks, pipes and pumps at the Truckee Meadows Water Reclamation Facility, has successfully demonstrated a continuous feed...
Cosmic Log: Animation in a micro-Wonderland
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: A half-inch-tall plastic doll is the star of the show in the stop-action animated short "Dot," which was filmed using high-tech, small-scale gear. ...
Livermore lab nears launch of fusion quest
Within the next week at a high-security building in Livermore, Calif., the size of a football stadium, scientists will hunker down to conduct an experiment backed by billions of dollars...
Inaugural 'Deep Orange' car unveiled at motorsports event
Amidst the din of roaring race car engines, one vehicle stood out for its sound of silence. With an electric motor, the inaugural "Deep Orange" car - the first...
Solar dish research focused on future
Do you remember as a kid using a magnifying glass to generate intense heat to burn a leaf? Technology has come a long way since then, and the work of...
U.S. Failure to Innovate Fuels Gathering Economic Storm
Future innovation is crucial to ensuring that the U.S. does not continue to slip.
MDS Nordion to get medical isotopes from Russia
A major Canadian provider of medical isotopes has signed a deal to get them from Russia starting in 2011 to secure its supply in case of another shutdown at the...
Fiber Optics Could ‘Humanize’ Future Prosthetic Limbs
Researchers plan to give amputees the ability to move their prosthetic legs, arms and hands in more natural ways with fiber optics.
HDCP Master Key Cracking
It’s managed to stay out of the general press, mostly — probably because it’s geeky, it’s hard to explain what it really means, and it’s not likely to affect anything...
Catalyst improves prospects for fuel cells
Alkali ions on platinum make for a more viable water-gas shift reaction
The Great Spectrum Famine
Although the range of frequencies available for mobile broadband is limited, freeing more of these airwaves is tricky--but possible.
Breaking Out of a Wind Ghetto
The Bonneville Power Administration opens a pilot project to steer excess wind power to a network of generators.
New map offers a global view of health-sapping air pollution
In many developing countries, the absence of surface-based air pollution sensors makes it difficult, and in some cases impossible, to get even a rough estimate of the abundance of a...
Magnetic power offers energy-saving alternative
Researchers have designed a new system called the "Magnetic Energy Recovery Switch" that controls electrical flow for lighting, a highly efficient platform that may spark a new era of power...
Challenging aqua regia’s throne
US researchers discover ‘organic’ aqua regia that can selectively dissolve noble metals in solution
A Path to Cleaner Cooking in Africa
A market-driven path to spread less-polluting cooking methods in poor places.
New generation X-ray machine unveiled
Scientists have demonstrated a new X-ray technique which distinguish tiny variations in materials
Paper highlight: Solvent-mediated end-to-end assembly of gold nanorods
Argonne National Laboratory scientists have developed a new method for the controlled end-to-end assembly of rod-shaped gold nanoparticles.
Frank talk on U.S. energy innovation
As a theoretical physicist by training, Steven E. Koonin PhD ’75 might have been expected to focus his talk at MIT on Wednesday, Sept. 22, on the scientific and technological aspects of...