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New Bluetooth System Orients Blind And Sighted Pedestrians
A new Bluetooth system designed primarily for blind people places a layer of information technology over the real world to tell pedestrians about points of interest along their path as...
Faulty Transformer Sidelines Atom Smasher
A 30-ton transformer that cools the world's largest particle collider malfunctioned hours after its anticipated launch. While the faulty transformer has been replaced, the malfunction went unreported for a week.
Lighting Research Center Develops Framework For Assessing Light Pollution
Balancing public and private interests for nighttime lighting has been a difficult undertaking, as too little lighting may increase safety and security issues, while too much lighting may cause problems...
First Dense Gas Of Ultracold 'Polar' Molecules Created
Scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have applied their expertise in ultracold atoms and lasers...
A broadband single-photon source
As science makes progress toward practical quantum computing, improved quantum cryptography and scalable quantum communications systems, single photon sources will become more important. Until now, though, efficient solid-state single photon...
Introducing the next generation of chemical reactors
Unique nanostructures which respond to stimuli, such as pH, heat and light will pave the way for safer, greener and more efficient chemical reactors.
From sugar to gasoline
Following independent paths of investigation, two research teams are announcing this month that they have successfully converted sugar-potentially derived from agricultural waste and non-food plants-into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and...
Lasers slim down radiotherapy equipment
Accelerating electrons using lasers could save valuable space and time in hospitals
North Korea preparing to 'restart' nuclear reactor
A diplomat from Pyongyang says North Korea's atomic reactor will be restarted because Washington hasn't kept its part of an international deal to end the country's nuclear program.
Toughening up thin films
New thin film precursors could lead to faster and smaller electronic devices
Most industries remain dependent on hazardous substances
Many obstacles, including insufficient investment and lack of training, keep scientists from embracing green chemistry and designing safer substitutes for the vast majority of compounds in use today. ...
Potential environmental risks aren't part of chemical engineers' training
No university in the United States teaches basic toxicology or other environmental sciences to students studying for a traditional chemistry degree, even a doctorate. Chemistry textbooks are devoid of ...
Skin Deep: Ancient, but How Safe?
The health industry has questions about metals like lead, mercury or arsenic being found in ayurvedic supplements.
Honda Develops New Multi-View Vehicle Camera System to Provide View of Surrounding Areas
Honda Motor announced that it has developed a multi-view camera system which displays views from multiple wide-angle CCD cameras on the vehicle`s navigation screen to reduce blind spots, support smooth...
Powerful microscopy technology created
DURHAM, N.C., Sept. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've developed a microscopy technology that might have a wide range of clinical applications by producing great depth and...
Optical sensors make MRI scans safer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic resonance scans will be safer for children and other patients needing anaesthesia, thanks to new kinds of optical sensors developed by a team of European researchers.
Dr Sergei Dudarev discusses magnetic process affecting the strength of metals
Dr Sergei Dudarev discusses magnetic process affecting the strength of metals
Study seeks to improve gas, diesel engines
AMES, Iowa, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Iowa State University scientists are studying gasoline and diesel engines with the goal of reducing emissions while improving efficiency.
Researchers meet major hydrogen milestone
A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory earlier this month reached a major milestone with the successful production of hydrogen through High-Temperature Electrolysis (HTE).
New Chemical Reaction Aids Drug Manufacture
Chemists at the University of Illinois at Chicago may have found a faster, cleaner, "greener" way to synthesize N-heterocycles, nitrogen-containing structures at the heart of almost all of the top...
Feature: Clearly infrared
An insight into how the high infrared transparency of chalcogenide glass promises technological innovation.
Extremely Detailed Images From Inside The Body Possible With New Technology
New technology will enable extremely detailed images to be made of the smallest structures of the human body. The aim is to detect the risk or commencement of an illness...
Innovative Hydrogen-powered Car Created
As the price of gasoline fuel soars, and concerns grow about the impact of car culture on the environment, a team of scientists have come up with a hydrogen-powered car,...
Noble metal nanoparticles deposit on the mycelium of growing fungi—an approach to new catalytic systems?
(PhysOrg.com) -- When fungi, such as penicillium, grow, they form a thread-like network, the mycelium. If the fungus is grown in a medium containing nanoscopic particles of a noble metal,...
Companies seek alternatives to plastic chemical
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health worries about a chemical found in many plastic products have created opportunities for companies catering to the growing market for products made without bisphenol A.
Letter: We must oppose the HIV-Aids deniers
Letter: Aids deniers undermine confidence in essential anti-retrovirals
Leica grabs bragging rights with 'fastest' lens
(AP) -- Before camera manufacturers one-upped each other with the number of megapixels, they one-upped each other with the zoom range of their lenses. And before that, in the...
Google and GE allies in quest for clean energy
Internet titan Google and technology colossus General Electric said Wednesday they are joining forces to promote a "smart" US electric power grid and clean energy policies.