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Global sales of 'smart devices' surging: study

Sep 26, 2012 (AFP)

Global sales of so-called smart connected devices -- computers, smartphones and tablets -- rose sharply in the past quarter, driven by smartphones and tablets, ...

Yale Researchers Call for Specialty Metals Recycling

Sep 25, 2012 (SPX)

An international policy is needed for recycling scarce specialty metals that are critical in the production of consumer goods, according to Yale researchers in ...

Researchers Demonstrate Cheaper Way To Produce NFO Thin Films

Sep 25, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a less-expensive way to create textured nickel ferrit...

Cancer research yields unexpected new way to produce nylon

Sep 25, 2012 (SPX)

In their quest for a cancer cure, researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute made a serendipitous discovery - a molecule necessary for cheaper and greener ways to...

Retailers to add radical 'focus later' camera

Sep 25, 2012 (AFP)

A radical camera that lets users adjust the focus after taking pictures will be available in October at shops in Australia, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong and the...

Glass half full: Double-strength glass may be within reach

Sep 25, 2012 (SPX)

Glass is strong enough for so much: windshields, buildings and many other things that need to handle high stress without breaking. But scientists who look at th...

Humans were already recycling 13,000 years ago

Sep 24, 2012 (SPX)

A study at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES) reveals that humans from the Upper Pala...

ORNL research uncovers path to defect-free thin films

Sep 24, 2012 (SPX)

A team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Ho Nyung Lee has discovered a strain relaxation phenomenon in cobaltites that has eluded researchers for decades a...

'5,000 police' quell Foxconn brawl: state media

Sep 24, 2012 (AFP)

Around 5,000 police were deployed to control a mass brawl among workers at a Foxconn plant in northern China, state media said Monday after the factory was clos...

Data that lives forever is possible: Japan's Hitachi

Sep 24, 2012 (AFP)

As Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones prove, good music lasts a long time; now Japanese hi-tech giant Hitachi says it can last even longer -- a few hundred millio...

Drink, flirt, stumble home: there's a beer fest app for that

Sep 23, 2012 (AFP)

Whether you want to know how long until you're sober, flirt with like-minded single revellers or where to stumble home after a few, help is only a click away at...

SciTechTalk: Whither goest smartphones?

Sep 23, 2012 (UPI)

As on-line orders for Apple's iPhone 5 soared into the millions and the die-hard faithful set up sleeping bags and camp stoves in front of Apple retail stores i...

Apple seeks more damages in wake of win against Samsung

Sep 22, 2012 (AFP)

Apple is seeking more than $700 million in additional damages and interest while arch-rival Samsung wants a new trial in the wake of a verdict that saw the US t...

New NIST screening method identifies 1,200 candidate refrigerants to combat global warming

Sep 21, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new computational method for identifying candidate refrigerant fluids ...

Radar Measurements of Highest Precision

Sep 21, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists of KIT and Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (RUB) have reached a record precision in radar distance measurements. With the help of a new radar system, an accu...

iPhone 5 rollout draws big crowds worldwide

Sep 21, 2012 (AFP)

Apple fans queued in Asia, Europe and North America on Friday for the new iPhone 5, which appeared set to break sales records despite lukewarm reviews and compl...

Maps fiasco mars Apple's big iPhone launch

Sep 21, 2012 (AFP)

Melting bridges, misplaced landmarks, and major cities disappearing: Apple's glitch-ridden maps program released in its new mobile software has customers fuming...

Using a laser to 'see' the smallest world

Sep 21, 2012 (SPX)

A multi-university team has employed a high-powered laser to dramatically improve one of the tools scientists use to study the world at the atomic level. The te...

Revolutionary ultrathin, flat lens: Smartphones as thin as a credit card?

Sep 21, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists are reporting development of a revolutionary new lens - flat, distortion-free, so small that more than 1,500 would fit across the width of a human ha...

Angling for gold

Sep 21, 2012 (SPX)

A study on how gold atoms bond to other atoms using a model that takes into account bonds direction has been carried out by physicist Marie Backman from the Uni...