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Underwater laser pops in navy ops
US military researchers have shown how laser light can be used to drive small underwater explosions for communications.
Atoms Don't Dance The 'Bose Nova': Realization Of An Excited, Strongly Correlated Many-body Phase
An Austrian research group has investigated how ultracold quantum gases behave in lower spatial dimensions. They successfully realized an exotic state, where, due to the laws of quantum mechanics, atoms...
Super-Strong German Steel Velcro: Not for Sneakers
German-created steel fasteners can withstand loads of more than 38 tons per square meter, hook and unhook without tools Velcro has proved plenty useful as a quick fastener on shoes and other...
Optical 'quantum computer chip' performs first calculation
Device employs Shor's algorithm using four photons
Wave Field Synthesis Gives Us Flat Loudspeakers With Big Cabinet Sound
Flat-panel televisions are nothing new. I think even my father has one in his toolshed by now. But legitimate flat-panel loudspeakers are harder to come by. There are...
No frontiers: Ushering in a new era of conferencing technology
This is one of the many new developments to be presented by four Fraunhofer Institutes at the TecWatch technology forum in Hall 5.3.
Graphics chips speed up medical imaging
Beyond just jazzing up video games, one of the growing array of applications being found for the powerful graphics-oriented chips that Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices sell is in speeding...
Engineering Students Build Underwater 'Bot
College students build underwater robots designed to save mock submarines.
Argonne researchers develop method that aims to stabilise antibodies
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed a systematic method to improve the stability of antibodies. The technique could lead to better biosensors, disease therapeutics...
Tech review: Charging mat, iPhone cases are smart, useful accessories
The Charge4All Portable Charging Mat is a darn handy solution to a growing problem.
Developer of system to prevent ID theft forms joint venture
Ray de Beasley's dream of seeing his identity theft prevention system come to life is one step closer to reality. He just formed a joint venture with Ayoka LLC, an...
Fox adds on-air tweets to 'Fringe' reruns
(AP) -- Summer reruns are ho-hum television, but Fox is trying out a possible solution: Add Twitter.
Smart sensors power interaction
A range of novel ideas in human-computer interaction have been demonstrated a conference this week in Cambridge.
Scientists propose new hypothesis on the origin of life
The Miller-Urey experiment, conducted by chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey in 1953, is the classic experiment on the origin of life. It established that the early Earth atmosphere, as...
New technique allows scientists to penetrate yeast cells' hard exterior
(PhysOrg.com) -- If you want to know how a cell responds to a particular chemical, the experiment is simple: Inject it with that chemical. Micropipettes - tiny needles that...
Transhumanism - Ray Kurzweil and The Singularity
I've been trying to figure out why "transhumanists" and their predictions irritate me so much. Perhaps it's seeing humanity reduced to a simplistic engineering problem to be solved. Or maybe...
Optical atomic clock becomes portable
You imagine a clock to be different - yet the optical table with its many complicated set-ups really is one. Optical clocks like the strontium clock in the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt...
What Was the Worst Nuclear Accident in History?
The blast, which blew the 2,000-ton lid off the reactor, sent out 400 times more radioactive fallout than the Hiroshima bomb.
The secrets of the lowly ground beetle could lead to better tissue engineering
Insects are about to be analyzed in a new way by a host of Virginia Tech engineering faculty. They will be using some fancy state-of-the-art equipment, such as a...
Scientists increase imaging efficiency in cell structure studies
Scientists in the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Laboratory of Bioengineering and Physical Science have developed a new technique that allows researchers to visualize fine details of...
Virginia Tech's proposed next generation nano-CT system will enhance nano-scale research
In 1991, Ge Wang produced the first paper on spiral cone-beam computed tomography (CT), now an imaging technique used in the mainstream of the medical CT field. Today, Wang, known...
Ibuprofen From Oil? Researchers Apply An Ecological Process
Researchers in Spain are designing ecological catalysts to get important products such as adhesives, textiles and products with pharmacological, antibiotic or insecticide properties from hydrocarbons -- organic molecules derived from...
Hot and cold moves of cyanide and water
Scientists have long known that molecules dance about as the temperature rises, but now researchers know the exact steps that water takes with a certain molecule. Results with small, electrically...
Oracle, Sun Now Face Integration Challenge
Oracle Will Have To Convince Customers The $7.4 Billion Acquisition Of Sun Microsystems Makes Sense
'Lucky Luke' Of The Seas: How Ambush-feeding Zooplankton Capture Prey
The world’s fastest ambush has been caught on film. Behind the attack is a copepod which must be ‘faster than its shadow’ to capture its prey in water thicker than...
First aid for electronics
A first aid kit for electrical systems could stop circuits failing and lead to safer, longer lasting batteries.
Mechanised nanocapsules target drug delivery
Supramolecular machines attached to nanoparticles allow the controlled release of their encapsulated cargo
Look Ahead Sensor: It's Science Versus Smugglers - Guess Who Wins?
Idaho National Laboratory engineer Phillip West holds a curious metallic device about as wide as a steering wheel. It looks a bit like a flat, stoic face, with two large...