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‘Talking’ cars reach testing phase
Scientists have developed a radio-based technology that allows cars to ‘talk’ to each other, analysing potential accidents and advising the driver.
Strength through diversity
Good ideas are not hard to find. But only those ideas that can be implemented into new, unprecedented applications become innovations. Those wanting to develop innovative products must therefore be...
Nanogenerators produce electricity from running rodents
Could hamsters help solve the world's energy crisis? Probably not, but a hamster wearing a power-generating jacket is doing its own small part to provide a new and renewable source...
Antibacterial Plaster Could Put A Clean Sheen On Walls
Scientists in China are reporting development and testing of new self-sanitizing plaster with more powerful antibacterial effects than penicillin. The material could be used in wall coatings, paints, art works...
A research work on molluscs nacre opens new doors for its possible use in biomedicine
Researchers from the University of Granada, the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the University of Aveiro (Portugal) have studied for the first time nacre's growing mechanism of gastropods, a...
Nanoscale materials grow with the flow
Imagine unloading a pile of bricks onto the ground and watching the bricks assemble themselves into a level, straight wall in only a few minutes. While merely a fantasy for...
A pocketful of uranium
The use of uranium as a nuclear fuel and in weapons increases the risk that people may come into contact with it, and the storage of radioactive uranium waste poses...
Molecular Machines Drive Plasmonic Nanoswitches
Plasmonics -- a possible replacement for current computing approaches -- may pave the way for the next generation of computers that operate faster and store more information than electronically-based systems...
Physics lab allays Angels & Demons antimatter fear
GENEVA (Reuters) - The European physics laboratory that reassured us it wouldn't destroy the Earth in a "Big Bang" experiment last year is now telling people not to fret about...
A Better Mesh: Researchers 'Tighten' Body's Protective Coating
Fibers in the mucus coatings of the eyes, lungs, stomach or reproductive system naturally bundle together and allow the tiniest disease-causing bugs, allergens or pollutants to slip by. But researchers...
Artificial Vision Used To Improve Recycling Of Electronic Scrap Metal
Researchers are studying an innovative method based on multispectral artificial vision systems to enhance the value of electronic scrap which currently represent 4% of urban waste in Europe.
Scientists Discover Material Harder Than Diamond
(PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, diamond is regarded to be the hardest known material in the world. But by considering large compressive pressures under indenters, scientists have calculated that a material called...
'Frozen smoke:' The ultimate sponge for cleaning up oil spills
Scientists in Arizona and New Jersey are reporting that aerogels, a super-lightweight solid sometimes called 'frozen smoke,' may serve as the ultimate sponge for capturing oil from wastewater and effectively...
New biomass heater: A 'new era' of efficiency and sustainability
Millions of homes in rural areas of Far Eastern countries are heated by charcoal burned on small, hibachi-style portable grills. Scientists in Japan are now reporting development of an improved...
A computer application to replace the Post-It?
Researchers at the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a computing application which could replace the Post-It note...
Enzyme cocktail converts cellulosic materials, water into hydrogen fuel
Tomorrow's fuel-cell vehicles may be powered by enzymes that consume cellulose from woodchips or grass and exhale hydrogen...
Information superhighway's trash yields a super highway asphalt
Discarded electronic hardware, including bits and pieces that built the information superhighway, can be recycled into an additive that makes super-strong asphalt paving material for real highways, researchers in China...
Yale engineers revolutionise nano-device fabrication using amorphous metals
Yale engineers have created a process that may revolutionise the manufacture of nano-devices from computer memory to biomedical sensors by exploiting a novel type of metal. The material can be...
Big Science Role Is Seen in Global Warming Cure
The Obama administration’s new secretary of energy said that solving the world’s energy and environment problems would require Nobel-level breakthroughs.
Actinide research published in Reviews of Modern Physics
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Livermore researcher who teamed with a United Kingdom collaborator has published an article in Reviews of Modern Physics that refines decades of actinide science and may just...
Brouhaha Over Controversial Forensic Technology: Journal Caves to Legal Threat
Paper questioning voice analyzer pulled from Web after manufacture claims it is defamatory
FBI Sting Nabs Janitor Selling Nuke Parts
A former janitor caught in an FBI sting operation trying to sell hardware from a shuttered atomic weapons uranium enrichment plant agreed to a plea deal Monday that carries a...
Chemical Gives Locusts A Jekyll-Hyde Jolt
A chemical that affects people's moods also can transform easygoing desert locusts into terrifying swarms that ravage the countryside, scientists report.
Windows 7: Better Late Than Never
Windows 7 is prettier, cleaner, faster and generally better than Windows Vista. But, writes Larry Magid, it's not really a new operating system as much as a fix for things...
Meet TED - The Intellectual Mardi Gras
Daniel Sieberg previews this year's TED or the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference held in Long Beach, California.
Solar Panels Mean An Extra Winter Chore
Snow can deliver an unexpected hit to the electric output of solar panes, creating one more chore in addition to shoveling. CNET's Martin LaMonica has more.
How do you solve a problem like MARIA?
A chance conversation between Alan Preece, Professor of Medical Physics in the Bristol Oncology Centre, and Dr Ian Craddock from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering has led to...
Automatic car crash call system created
STATESBORO, Ga., Feb. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they are creating a Java-enabled car accident reporting system that would call for help automatically after a crash occurs.