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Researchers Design First Battery-Powered Invisibility Cloaking Device
Dec 22, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have proposed the first design of a cloaking device that uses an external source of energy to significantly bro...
Europe's Gaia telescope detaches from Fregat-MT upper stage
Dec 21, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
Europe's Gaia telescope that will make up a 3D map of the Milky Way has detached from the Fregat-MT upper stage, said a source with the Russian Federal Space Ag...
Sailing satellites into safe retirement
Dec 21, 2013 (ESA)
When satellites reach the end of their working lives, they may pose a threat to other spacecraft as they continue to orbit in a dormant state for many decades. ...
Leaner Fourier transforms
Dec 20, 2013 (SPX)
The fast Fourier transform, one of the most important algorithms of the 20th century, revolutionized signal processing. The algorithm allowed computers to quick...
Uranium (IV) found to be mobile in a natural wetland
Dec 20, 2013 (SPX)
Because they are known to mop up pollutants, artificial wetlands are considered to be an efficient strategy to contain waterborne uranium. But studying a natura...
Oracle to buy cloud firm for $1.5 bn
Dec 20, 2013 (AFP)
Business software giant Oracle announced plans Friday to boost its cloud services with a $1.5 billion acquisition of Responsys. Responsys, which like Oracle is ...
MU Researchers Develop Advanced Three-Dimensional Force Microscope
Dec 19, 2013 (SPX)
Membrane proteins are the "gatekeepers" that allow information and molecules to pass into and out of a cell. Until recently, the microscopic study of these comp...
'Approximate' computers could do tasks not requiring exact answers
Dec 18, 2013 (UPI)
Computers doing "approximate computing" for tasks not requiring perfect accuracy could double efficiency and reduce energy consumption, U.S. scientists say. Suc...
SOFS Take to Water
Dec 17, 2013 (SPX)
Supramolecular chemistry, aka chemistry beyond the molecule, in which molecules and molecular complexes are held together by non-covalent bonds, is just beginni...
Rock points to potential diamond haul in Antarctica
Dec 17, 2013 (AFP)
Australian geologists on Tuesday opened up the tantalising but controversial prospect that Antarctica could be rich in diamonds. In a scientific paper published...
Programming smart molecules
Dec 17, 2013 (SPX)
Computer scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard Uni...
Inertial Sensor Head shaken but not disturbed
Dec 16, 2013 (ESA)
The Engineering Qualification Model of the Inertial Sensor Head (ISH) for LISA Pathfinder has passed a significant milestone. The integration of all the compone...
E-trash to leap by a third by 2017: data
Dec 15, 2013 (AFP)
Electronic and electrical gadgets that have reached the end of their life are expected to jump by a third in volume by 2017, a rise that poses mighty challenges...
Polymers can be semimetals
Dec 14, 2013 (SPX)
Polymers can behave like insulators, semiconductors and metals - as well as semimetals. Twenty researchers, under the leadership of Xavier Crispin, Docent in or...
Facebook seeks to get smarter with big data
Dec 14, 2013 (AFP)
Facebook is working to become your new best friend, getting to know you better by infusing the billion-member social network's software with artificial intellig...
A Stopwatch for Electron Flashes
Dec 14, 2013 (SPX)
Physicists at LMU Munich and the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics measure the duration of energetic electron pulses using laser fields. A stopwatch made o...
Morphing material has mighty potential
Dec 14, 2013 (SPX)
Heating a sheet of plastic may not bring it to life - but it sure looks like it does in new experiments at Rice University. The materials created by Rice polyme...
New sensor tracks zinc in cells
Dec 14, 2013 (SPX)
Zinc, an essential nutrient, is found in every tissue in the body. The vast majority of the metal ion is tightly bound to proteins, helping them to perform biol...
China trims rare earth quota for H1 2014
Dec 13, 2013 (AFP)
China on Friday trimmed its export quota for rare earth resources for the first half of next year. The country produces more than 95 percent of the world's rare...
Citrus fruit inspires a new energy-absorbing metal structure
Dec 12, 2013 (SPX)
It has been said that nature provides us with everything that we need. A new study appearing in Springer's Journal of Materials Science may lend credence to tha...
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