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TED crowd gets taste of virtual reality future
Feb 18, 2016 (AFP)
Clad in virtual reality headgear and computerized vests, intrepid explorers at the annual TED event headed Wednesday into a temple adventure reminiscent of a sc...
US, Spain to Jointly Monitor Outer Space Traffic
Feb 18, 2016 (Sputnik)
The United States and Spain have signed a memorandum agreeing to monitor space by sharing situational data, the US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) said in a press ...
Light used to measure the 'big stretch' in spider silk proteins
Feb 17, 2016 (SPX)
While working to improve a tool that measures the pushes and pulls sensed by proteins in living cells, biophysicists at Johns Hopkins say they've discovered one...
Engineering material magic
Feb 17, 2016 (SPX)
University of Utah engineers have discovered a new kind of 2D semiconducting material for electronics that opens the door for much speedier computers and smartp...
Patient wears 3-D glasses during brain surgery
Feb 17, 2016 (AFP)
In a world first, a patient in France undergoing brain surgery while conscious wore virtual reality glasses as doctors removed a cancerous tumour, the chief sur...
Leap Motion opens door to reach into virtual worlds
Feb 17, 2016 (AFP)
California virtual reality startup Leap Motion on Wednesday opened a door for makers of games or other applications to literally touch virtual worlds. The San F...
Beyond diamonds and gems: The world's rarest minerals
Feb 17, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists have inventoried and categorized all of Earth's rare mineral species described to date, each sampled from five or fewer sites around the globe. Indiv...
Shaping crystals with the flow
Feb 17, 2016 (SPX)
One of goals of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) is to foster collaboration between different disciplines. Recently, O...
Russian Scientists Against Using Nuclear Weapons to Clear Space Debris
Feb 17, 2016 (Sputnik)
The use of nuclear weapons in order to clear space debris is meaningless, said the director of the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Federation Boris Shusto...
Not your grandfather's house, but maybe it should be
Feb 17, 2016 (SPX)
Everyone wants a house to live in, and more and more, people around the world want the kinds of houses seen in Europe and North America, rather than those they ...
Saab's new GlobalEye radar integrated with Bombardier jet
Feb 16, 2016 (UPI)
Saab has introduced an early warning airborne surveillance system called GlobalEye. GlobalEye combines Saab's new Erieye extended range radar and mission contro...
Scientists prove feasibility of 'printing' replacement tissue
Feb 16, 2016 (SPX)
Using a sophisticated, custom-designed 3D printer, regenerative medicine scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have proved that it is feasible to pri...
Some 5,000 years ago, silver mining on the shores of the Aegean Sea
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
The team of mining archaeologists was supervised by Prof. Dr Denis Morin of the University of Lorraine, connected with the UMR CNRS 5608 (UMR National Center fo...
Scientists from MIPT gain insights into 'forbidden' chemistry
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
Gabriele Saleh, a research fellow at MIPT, and Prof. Artem Oganov, a Laboratory Supervisor at MIPT and Professor at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Techno...
Why not recycled concrete
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
From paper towels to cups to plastic bottles, products made from recycled materials permeate our lives. One notable exception is building materials. Why can't w...
Flow phenomena on solid surfaces
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
This was demonstrated by studying the behaviour of droplets on surfaces with different coatings as they evolved into the equilibrium state. The results could pr...
SLAC X-ray laser turns crystal imperfections into better images of important biomolecules
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
Often the most difficult step in taking atomic-resolution images of biological molecules is getting them to form high-quality crystals needed for X-ray studies ...
A metal that behaves like water
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
Graphene is going to change the world - or so we've been told. Since its discovery a decade ago, scientists and tech gurus have hailed graphene as the wonder ma...
Chemical cages: New technique advances synthetic biology
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
Living systems rely on a dizzying variety of chemical reactions essential to development and survival. Most of these involve a specialized class of protein mole...
Silicon chip with integrated laser: Light from a nanowire
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
Physicists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a nanolaser, a thousand times thinner than a human hair. Thanks to an ingenious process, t...
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