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Microsoft aims at gamers in opening E3 shot
Jun 09, 2014 (AFP)
Microsoft aimed squarely at hard-core video game players on Monday, opening fire with "Halo" and a barrage of other titles for play on its new-generation Xbox O...
Intel's gesture control promises hands-free life at Taiwan show
Jun 05, 2014 (AFP)
US computer chip giant Intel said its gesture-controlled technology could soon become part of everyday life as it showed its vision of a no-touch lifestyle in T...
Google working on 3D motion-sensing tablet
Jun 05, 2014 (AFP)
Google on Thursday revealed that is working on a tablet computer with 3D and motion-sensing capabilities in an effort dubbed Project Tango. "The goal of Project...
Raytheon selected to demonstrate next generation, modular radar system
Jun 05, 2014 (SPX)
Raytheon has been awarded a $6 million study and demonstration contract by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to further develop an Enterprise Air Surveillance ...
How NASA Builds a Space Laser
Jun 05, 2014 (SPX)
To build a satellite that will measure all the bumps and dips of our dynamic Earth, engineers started with a black box, built of a composite honeycomb material ...
Citizen Scientists Contact Vintage Spacecraft
Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)
A group of citizen scientists has successfully established communication with an inactive NASA spacecraft in an attempt to breathe new scientific life into a mo...
Stronger than steel
Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)
A Swedish-German research team has successfully tested a new method for the production of ultra-strong cellulose fibres at DESY's research light source PETRA II...
New Method of Wormlike Motion Lets Gels Wiggle through Water
Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)
Next time you spot an earthworm sliding through fresh dirt, take a closer look. What you're seeing is an organic movement called peristaltic locomotion that has...
World's best thermometer made from light
Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)
University of Adelaide physics researchers have produced the world's most sensitive thermometer - three times more precise than the best thermometers in existen...
Researchers predict electrical response of metals to extreme pressure
Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)
Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences makes it possible to predict how subjecting metals to severe pressure can lower their ...
Lasers create table-top supernova
Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)
Laser beams 60,000 billion times more powerful than a laser pointer have been used to recreate scaled supernova explosions in the laboratory as a way of investi...
Pitt team first to detect exciton in metal
Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)
University of Pittsburgh researchers have become the first to detect a fundamental particle of light-matter interaction in metals, the exciton. The team will pu...
Analyzing Resistance to Impacts and Improving Armor Plating
Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)
New pneumatic launchers at the Impact on Aeronautical Structures Laboratory, located at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) Science Park, make it possib...
Russia preparing to launch Okno space surveillance system at full capacity
Jun 02, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
State tests of the Okno (Window) complex for tracking and monitoring man-made space objects in Tajikistan will take place during the summer months in the intere...
A Path Toward More Powerful Tabletop Accelerators
May 29, 2014 (SPX)
Making a tabletop particle accelerator just got easier. A new study shows that certain requirements for the lasers used in an emerging type of small-area partic...
Sight for sore eyes: Augmented reality without the discomfort
May 29, 2014 (SPX)
Augmented reality is increasingly becoming...well...a reality. Smartphone apps can point out restaurants as you scan the street with your phone camera or even i...
Probing satellites' mysterious death tumbling
May 29, 2014 (ESA)
Down on the ground, death equals stillness - but not in space. Derelict satellites can tumble in unpredictable ways and ESA's team tasked with developing a spac...
Microsoft allies with Salesforce.com in 'cloud' push; Acer launches software 'cloud' service
May 29, 2014 (AFP)
Taiwan's Acer on Thursday unveiled its cloud service centre as the struggling computer maker seeks to revive its fortunes by diversifying away from the low-marg...
Leaving the islands
May 29, 2014 (SPX)
In a recent study involving LMU researchers, the desorption of oxygen molecules from a silver surface was successfully visualized for the first time. The effect...
Scientists unveil first method for controlling the growth of metal crystals
May 28, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers have announced the first ever method for controlling the growth of metal-crystals from single atoms. Published in the journal Nature Communications ...
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