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Samsung launches new Internet-connected camera

Nov 29, 2012 (AFP)

Samsung Electronics Thursday launched a new Internet-connected camera in South Korea, as the electronics giant intensifies efforts to expand its dominance in th...

Star Trek Classroom: The next generation of school desks

Nov 28, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers designing and testing the 'classroom of the future' have found that multi-touch, multi-user desks can boost skills in mathematics. New results from ...

20 workers injured as tornado hits Italy steel plant

Nov 28, 2012 (AFP)

A powerful tornado on Wednesday struck a steel plant in southern Italy at the centre of a labour dispute, leaving 20 workers slightly injured and one missing, a...

Experiment yields possible 'spooky' matter

Nov 28, 2012 (UPI)

U.S. physicists say unexpected results from the Large Hadron Collider suggest its particle collisions may be producing a new type of matter. Recent experiments ...

Putting more cores to work in server farms

Nov 27, 2012 (SPX)

Streaming data, social networks, online games and services, databases - the number of interactions we have with the Internet is continually increasing. Every ti...

Improving 3-D image capture in real time

Nov 27, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers at the UPNA-Public University of Navarre develop a technique to improve the capture in real time of three-dimensional images. The work, published in...

Japan firm offers 3D model of foetus

Nov 27, 2012 (AFP)

Expectant parents in Japan who can't wait to show the world what their baby will look like can now buy a three-dimensional model of the foetus to pass around th...

Indian inventor wins cash to develop Braille phone

Nov 27, 2012 (AFP)

A 29-year-old Indian inventor on Tuesday won $50,000 to help him make a new low-cost mobile phone for the blind that uses a Braille display. Sumit Dagar, an ind...

New device hides, on cue, from infrared cameras

Nov 27, 2012 (SPX)

Now you see it, now you don't. A new device invented at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) can absorb 99.75% of infrared light that s...

Modeling the breaking points of metallic glasses

Nov 27, 2012 (SPX)

Metallic glass alloys (or liquid metals) are three times stronger than the best industrial steel, but can be molded into complex shapes with the same ease as pl...

Spanish Scientists Design a Revolutionary Data Storage Device

Nov 27, 2012 (SPX)

University of Granada researchers have developed a revolutionary data storage device in collaboration with the CEA-LETI lab at Grenoble (France), an institution...

Windows 8 sales hit 40 million: Microsoft

Nov 27, 2012 (AFP)

Microsoft said Tuesday it sold 40 million licenses for its Windows 8 operating system in the first month after a launch which got a mixed reception. One of the ...

New structures self-assemble in synchronized dance

Nov 26, 2012 (SPX)

With self-assembly guiding the steps and synchronization providing the rhythm, a new class of materials forms dynamic, moving structures in an intricate dance. ...

Scotch tape finds new use as grasping 'smart material'

Nov 26, 2012 (SPX)

Scotch tape, a versatile household staple and a mainstay of holiday gift-wrapping, may have a new scientific application as a shape-changing "smart material." R...

Detective work using terahertz radiation

Nov 26, 2012 (SPX)

Damaging biocides can be detected on old wooden sculptures, hidden wall paintings can be made visible again and the layered structures of pieces of art analyzed...

Better protection for forging dies

Nov 26, 2012 (SPX)

Hard or tough - very often, the manufacturers of forging dies must make a compromise here. A new technology now makes it possible to combine both characteristic...

DataWind denies Aakash tablet cheap Chinese import

Nov 24, 2012 (AFP)

Makers of India's low-cost Aakash tablet on Saturday denied a local media report that said the computer was a cheap Chinese import and not an Indian innovation ...

Raytheon achieves critical firsts for US Navy dual-band radar

Nov 23, 2012 (SPX)

Raytheon has achieved two significant milestones on the Cobra Judy Replacement program, meeting critical performance requirements to advance ongoing system inte...

University of Glasgow and Clyde Space set to put brakes on space junk problem

Nov 23, 2012 (SPX)

Engineers at the University of Glasgow and Clyde Space Ltd have developed a practical solution to the increasing problem of space debris. Millions of pieces of ...

Systems engineering expertise leads to increased counterfire target acquisition radar capabilities

Nov 23, 2012 (AFNS)

A seamless link from development to production helped to distinguish a recent Department of Defense-awarded radar as one of the top five 2012 defense programs o...