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Dec 21, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers at the University of Jaen (Spain) have mixed waste from the paper industry with ceramic material used in the construction industry. The result is a ...

JILA physicists achieve elusive 'evaporative cooling' of molecules

Dec 21, 2012 (SPX)

Achieving a goal considered nearly impossible, JILA physicists have chilled a gas of molecules to very low temperatures by adapting the familiar process by whic...

Team develops a microwave-assisted method for producing thin films

Dec 21, 2012 (SPX)

Growth of new materials is the cornerstone of materials science - a highly inter-disciplinary field of science that touches every aspect of our lives from compu...

Researchers Use Liquid Metal to Create Wires That Stretch Eight Times Their Original Length

Dec 21, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers from North Carolina State University have created conductive wires that can be stretched up to eight times their original length while still functio...

EU: Samsung injunctions against Apple breach rules

Dec 21, 2012 (AFP)

The European Commission said Friday that South Korea's Samsung Electronics was abusing its dominant market position in certain technologies when it took out inj...

Fitting 'smart' mobile phone with magnifying optics creates 'real' cell phone

Dec 20, 2012 (SPX)

By fitting a "smart" mobile phone with magnifying optics, bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley created a real "cell" phone, a diagnostic-quali...

EU says to set out anti-trust case against Samsung soon

Dec 20, 2012 (AFP)

The EU will set out its case against Samsung Electronics "very soon" following an anti-trust probe of the smartphone and mobile tablet market, Competition Commi...

Berkeley Lab Scientists Developing Quick Way to ID People Exposed to Ionizing Radiation

Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)

There's a reason emergency personnel train for the aftermath of a dirty bomb or an explosion at a nuclear power plant. They'll be faced with a deluge of urgent ...

Missile Defense Agency awards Raytheon contract modification for AN/TPY-2 radar

Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)

Raytheon is being awarded a firm-fixed price contract modification for the AN/TPY-2 radar in the amount of $207,922,395, increasing the total contract value fro...

Apple pinch-to-zoom patent deemed invalid

Dec 19, 2012 (AFP)

A filing Wednesday in a high-stakes legal battle between Samsung and Apple revealed that a "pinch-to-zoom" patent central to the case has been deemed invalid. T...

Google sells Motorola Mobility Home for $2.35 bn

Dec 19, 2012 (AFP)

Google on Wednesday announced it is selling the Motorola Mobility Home unit to global communications technology company ARRIS in a cash and stock deal valued at...

Bubble study could improve industrial splash control

Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)

For the first time, scientists witnessed the details of the full, ultrafast process of liquid droplets evolving into a bubble when they strike a surface. Their ...

Samsung is top 2012 phone brand, ousting Nokia

Dec 18, 2012 (AFP)

Samsung has overtaken Nokia as the top mobile phone brand for 2012 and has opened up a decisive lead over Apple in the smartphone market, a research firm said T...

Rice uses light to remotely trigger biochemical reactions

Dec 18, 2012 (SPX)

Since Edison's first bulb, heat has been a mostly undesirable byproduct of light. Now researchers at Rice University are turning light into heat at the point of...

Instagram yields to user outrage over policy change

Dec 18, 2012 (AFP)

Instagram backed down Tuesday from a planned policy change that appeared to clear the way for the mobile photo sharing service to sell pictures without compensa...

Operation to rescue Yamal-402 a success

Dec 18, 2012 (Voice of Russia)

Experts of the Thales Alenia Space company have completed a unique operation to "rescue" Yamal-402 satellite. On December 9 the Breeze-M upper stage of Russia's...

Adhesion disturbed by noise

Dec 18, 2012 (SPX)

Imagine a solid ball rolling down a slightly inclined ramp. What could be perceived as child's play is the focus of serious theoretical research by Manoj Chaudh...

Grains Gang Up to Bear Brunt of Missile and Meteorite Impacts

Dec 18, 2012 (SPX)

High-speed video of projectiles slamming into a bed of disks has given scientists a new microscopic picture of the way a meteorite or missile transfers the ener...

Building better structural materials

Dec 17, 2012 (SPX)

When materials are stressed, they eventually change shape. Initially these changes are elastic, and reverse when the stress is relieved. When the material's str...

Apple losses bid for US ban on Samsung smartphones

Dec 17, 2012 (AFP)

A judge late Monday denied Apple's request to ban a set of Samsung smartphones from the US market after a jury found the South Korean electronics titan guilty o...