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Swiss cheese crystal, or high-tech sponge?
Jan 29, 2014 (SPX)
The sponges of the future will do more than clean house. Picture this, for example: Doctors use a tiny sponge to soak up a drug and deliver it directly to a tum...
Magnetic switch gets closer to application
Jan 29, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists from Paris, Newcastle and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been able to switch on and off robust ferromagnetism close to room temperature by using low e...
Chemists unveil 'water-jet' printer
Jan 28, 2014 (AFP)
Like any ordinary printer, this machine ingests a blank page and spits it out covered in print. But instead of ink, it uses only water, and the used paper fades...
Mollusc shells inspire super-glass
Jan 28, 2014 (AFP)
Engineers intrigued by the toughness of mollusc shells, which are composed of brittle minerals, have found inspiration in their structure to make glass 200 time...
'Gears of War' videogame will stay in Xbox arsenal
Jan 27, 2014 (AFP)
Microsoft on Monday said that it bought the rights to "Gears of War" in a move that promises to keep the hit videogame franchise true to Xbox consoles. Microsof...
Google says buys artificial intelligence firm DeepMind
Jan 27, 2014 (AFP)
Google said on Monday that it had agreed to buy British artificial intelligence start-up company DeepMind for an undisclosed amount. "I can confirm that the acq...
MDA awarded key development work for exploration and communications
Jan 24, 2014 (SPX)
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has been awarded multiple strategic technology development contracts by the Canadian Space Agency. The contracts, with a com...
Liquid Crystal Turns Water Droplets Into 'Gemstones'
Jan 23, 2014 (SPX)
Liquid crystals are remarkable materials that combine the optical properties of crystalline solids with the flow properties of liquids, characteristics that com...
SAP says cloud computing to continue to boost sales
Jan 23, 2014 (AFP)
German software giant SAP said on Tuesday it expects its cloud computing business to continue to boost sales in the coming years, but profit growth will slow th...
Lenovo to buy IBM's low-end server business for $2.3bn
Jan 23, 2014 (AFP)
Chinese computer giant Lenovo will buy IBM's low-end server business for $2.3 billion, it said Thursday, giving it a platform to compete in that sector with US ...
Smooth sailing: Rough surfaces that can reduce drag
Jan 23, 2014 (SPX)
From the sleek hulls of racing yachts to Michael Phelps' shaved legs, most objects that move through the water quickly are also smooth. But researchers from UCL...
Spider silk ties scientists up in knots
Jan 23, 2014 (SPX)
Two years ago, researchers from Iowa State University (USA) published a study which concluded that spider silk conducts heat as well as metals. Now, a team from...
New York seeks to double recycling by 2017
Jan 23, 2014 (AFP)
More than 40,000 tonnes of waste a day, 7,000 employees and a fleet of more than 2,500 trucks: New York faces an uphill task in trashing its garbage and doublin...
Malaysians protest rare earth plant on Australia Day
Jan 22, 2014 (AFP)
An environmentalist group on Wednesday protested outside an Australia Day function in Malaysia against a rare earth plant which it claims is producing dangerous...
ESA to develop satellite reentry technology
Jan 22, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
The European Space Agency (ESA) intends to launch Vega launch vehicle with the Intermediate Experimental Vehicle (IEV) this year to develop the satellite reentr...
Poison-breathing bacteria may be boon to industry, environment
Jan 22, 2014 (SPX)
Buried deep in the mud along the banks of a remote salt lake near Yosemite National Park are colonies of bacteria with an unusual property: they breathe a toxic...
What makes superalloys super - hierarchical microstructure of a superalloy
Jan 21, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers have observed for the first time in detail how a hierarchical microstructure develops during heat treatment of a superalloy Materials in high-perfor...
CCNY Team Models Sudden Thickening of Complex Fluids
Jan 21, 2014 (SPX)
A new model by a team of researchers with The City College of New York's Benjamin Levich Institute may shed new understanding on the phenomenon known as discont...
Potential Future Data Storage at Domain Boundaries
Jan 20, 2014 (SPX)
Storing more and more in an ever-smaller space - what sounds impossible is in fact just part of the daily routine in information technology, where for decades, ...
Quantum physics could make secure, single-use computer memories possible
Jan 20, 2014 (SPX)
Computer security systems may one day get a boost from quantum physics, as a result of recent research from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (...
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