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From Outer Space To The Eye Clinic: New Cataract Early Detection Technique
A compact fiber-optic probe developed for the space program has now proven valuable for patients in the clinic as the first non-invasive early detection device for cataracts, the leading cause...
Cool New Gizmos For Home, Families, Kids
Natali Del Conte and Daniel Sieberg sampled some at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Researchers Can Detect Tunnel Excavation With Fiber Optic Cables
(PhysOrg.com) -- With the same type of fiber optic cables used in telecommunications systems, researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a way to detect and pinpoint the...
Carbon cost of Googling revealed
Two Google searches produce as much carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle, according to research by a Harvard University physicist.
First US count finds 1 in 200 kids are vegetarian
Sam Silverman is co-captain of his high school football team - a safety accustomed to bruising collisions. But that's nothing compared with the abuse he gets for being a vegetarian....
Overwork a silent killer in Japan
Pushed to their limits, thousands of Japanese are literally working themselves to death each year, a scourge the Asian power has started to address but which could get worse in...
Displacing Petroleum-derived Butanol With Plants
As a chemical for industrial processes, butanol is used in everything from brake fluid, to paint thinners, to plastics. According to researchers, butanol made from plant material could displace butanol...
Belfast art set to collide with quantum physics
The parallel universes of quantum physics and theatre are about to collide as scientists on the French-Swiss border attempt once more to recreate the Big Bang.
Can You "Superinsulate" It?
With the hopes of dramatically cutting energy use, a family embarks on an outsized project to put a foam blanket around their 80-year-old house.
VHS' Days Appear Numbered
It seems headed the way of 8-tracks and other outdated technologies, says Daniel Sieberg, who explained why, then showed how to transfer video from VHS to DVD.
Airline Tests Jet Powered By Fruit Oil
Looking to reduce its carbon footprint and cut its fuel bill, Air New Zealand tested a passenger jet that was powered partially with oil from a plum-sized fruit known as...
Smaller, Brighter Probe Tailored For Molecular Imaging And Tumor Targeting Created
Researchers have developed a new generation of microscopic particles for molecular imaging, constituting one of the first promising nanoparticle platforms that may be readily adapted for tumor targeting and treatment...
Squashing Silane into Metal
(PhysOrg.com) -- Squeeze it hard enough and hydrogen, the most abundant and lightest element in our Universe, strangely takes on a metallic nature. During this state, as it loses hold...
Scientists prove unconventional superconductivity in new iron arsenide compounds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory used inelastic neutron scattering to show that superconductivity in a new family of iron arsenide superconductors cannot be explained...
Sony Is All Fired Up At CES 2009: OLED & Webbie Debut
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sir Howard Stringer, CEO Sony introduced an improved prototype of the FLEX OLED display during his keynote address at CES 2009. The Flex OLED technology will in all...
New Balloon Successfully Flight-Tested Over Antarctica
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and the National Science Foundation have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype that may enable a new era of high-altitude scientific research....
Nano 'balls' can be used to manipulate the properties of glass
(PhysOrg.com) -- Liquid or glass, hard or soft -- researchers at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, are investigating a new 'model material' that can adopt a series of different...
Nanotubes promise electronic inks
Masking metallic nanotubes reveals the true potential of their semiconducting neighbours
Chemists edge closer to recreating early life
An evolving, self-replicating RNA system adds weight to ‘RNA World’ theory of life’s emergence on earth
Researchers control the assembly of nanobristles into helical clusters
From the structure of DNA to nautical rope to distant spiral galaxies, helical forms are as abundant as they are useful in nature and manufacturing alike. Researchers at the Harvard...
Scientists 'Write' With Atoms Using An Atomic Force Microscope
Scientists have discovered a new method to manipulate atoms. Using the atoms at the tip (that are chemically different to those at the surface) as “ink”, it is possible to...
A bright future for clean technology in China
The future is bright for clean technology investors in China, says venture capitalist Gary Rieshel.
Famed sci-fi author to be writer-in-residence at synchrotron
Acclaimed Canadian sci-fi author Robert J. Sawyer will be the first ever writer-in-residence at Saskatoon's light source synchrotron.
Microscopic Fibers Coil Together
Solvent evaporation prompts tiny hairlike fibers to twist around each other--and grab nearby particles
the Theists strike back
The distinguished religious affairs commentator Clifford Longley has complained to the Advertising Standards Authority about the atheist bus, on the grounds that science suggests that there very probably is a...
Norwegian solar company confirms purchase of UPM's N.B. mills
A Norwegian company has confirmed it is buying all of UPM's assets in New Brunswick, including its shuttered paper mill in Miramichi and a sawmill near Bathurst.
Sony debuts pocket-sized notebook computer
Japanese electronics giant Sony has debuted a powerful, fashionable notebook computer small enough to fit in a purse or suit jacket.
Modified Lignin Has Potential Benefits For Ethanol, Paper And Feed
Cellulose is a key component of plant cell walls that can be converted into ethanol and other products. New findings could help make that conversion process easier.