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Environmental chemists keep watchful eye on Beijing's smog
On the eve of the Olympic Games, scientists are taking the long view on the capital's air pollution.
Nissan Shows Off Powerful New Electric Car
Nissan showed a spiffy electric car packed with a battery developed by the Japanese automaker to deliver more power than the type common in today's hybrids.
New device can ID wine variety and vintage
BARCELONA, Spain, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Spanish scientists say they have developed a portable "electronic tongue" that can rapidly identify a wine's vintage and grape variety.
Turning Those Old Electronic Circuit Boards Into New Park Benches
Scientists in China have developed a new recycling method that could transform yesterday's computer into tomorrow's park bench.
Nano Sculptures In Gold
If someone is charged up, the color of their face might change, but they don’t immediately pull off one of their arms, only to reattach it as a third leg....
Superfluid-superconductor relationship detailed
Scientists have studied superconductors and superfluids for decades. Now, researchers have drawn the first detailed picture of the way a superfluid influences the behavior of a superconductor. In addition to...
Invisible Bullet-Tagging Technology Could Deter Criminals
Gun-slinging evil-doers beware. Scientific justice is just around the corner thanks to a new nanotechnology system that not only better captures DNA on guns, but attaches hard-to-remove, microscopic tags to...
Sunny Forecast For Fuel Cells
Novel electrode materials bring large-scale use of solar power closer to reality
Light goes out on pioneer machine
The Daresbury Synchrotron Radiation Source is switched off after 28 years of pioneering X-ray science.
Americans try to see the bright side of high gas prices
It's hard, anywhere in the world, to be positive about sky-high gasoline prices. But in the United States, some experts and ordinary citizens are focusing on the benefits of high...
Malaysia's Proton develops new hybrid car: reports
Malaysia's state-owned carmaker Proton is developing a new, fuel-efficient hybrid car to beat rising costs and address environmental concerns, reports said Sunday.
Scientist says feathers are future of Asia construction
A Filipino scientist says he has created a new composite building board made of chicken feathers that could be a major breakthrough for the construction industry in Asia.
Feature: Beyond the test tube
An insight into how supercomputers have brought quantum chemistry into the 21st century, and a glance at what the future holds.
Brightest, Sharpest, Fastest X-ray Holograms Yet
An international group of scientists working at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and at FLASH, the free-electron laser in Hamburg, Germany, has produced two...
Giant kites to tap power of the high wind
Experiments show that the power generated could provide electricity for 100,000 homes
Ballistic breakthrough could lead to molecular logic gates
Electrons travel with ease between benzene and platinum
Telescope Embedded In Glasses Lens Promises To Make Driving Easier For Visually Impaired
Glasses embedded with a telescope promise to make it easier for people with impaired vision to drive and do other activities requiring sharper distance vision. Scientists have found advantages of...
Nanosilver products raise concerns of safety, effectiveness
Little is known about how the minuscule particles of silver affect humans or even if nanosilver's antibacterial claims hold up. ...
Can a Nuclear Blast Alter Earth's Rotation?
Nuclear bombs are humankind's most powerful weapon, but their destructive impact would unlikely alter the spinning of the Earth on its axis.
Nanotechnology: Size-specific Cracking Shakes
Certain sizes of nanostructures may be more susceptible to failure by fracture than others. As the size of a structure gets to the nanoscale, atomic vibrations (also known as phonons)...
U.S. border agents given power to seize travellers' laptops, cellphones
U.S. authorities now have the power to seize travellers' electronic devices, including laptops and cellphones, and make copies of their contents at an off-site location.
Siemens builds a lock made of light: Data transfer using quantum cryptography
Electronic communication is becoming more secure all over the world. Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Austrian Research Centers (ARC) and Graz University of Technology have joined forces to develop the...
Hitachi Shows Technical Feasibility Of Perpendicular Magnetic Recording At 610 Gbit/in2
Hitachi, Ltd. announced today that it has demonstrated the technical feasibility of magnetic recording at 610 Gbit/in2. This considerably exceeds the previously demonstrated capabilities of current perpendicular recording technology found...
Say I'm Inside the Large Hadron Collider and It's Revving Up. Should I Be Concerned?
Well, it's never a great idea to stand next to a machine that could create black holes, but the magnets that steer the proton beams around the planet's most powerful...
The Secrets of Prince Rupert's Exploding Glass Drops
I discovered that the bottom of my bag was littered with powdered glass. Three of the little Prince Rupert’s drops I had so carefully made for a lecture at Oxford...
Swept Up In The Winds Of Change
With so much hype about - and so much invested in - wind power, Daniel Sieberg wanted to find out how it actually worked. So he went to America's other...
Al Gore: Energy Crisis Can Be Fixed
Al Gore is challenging Americans to produce all electricity through wind, sun and other green energy sources within 10 years. Katie Couric spoke with the former vice president about his...
The Choreography of Dancing Molecules
Polymers can be made to glow or change colors when activated by light or electric charge. This makes them good candidates for a new type of display screens based on...