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Improved lubrication without oil
May 23, 2012 (SPX)
Running nicely - this applies even more to aqueous biopolymer solutions than to oil. These solutions are used as a cooling lubricant for machining hard metals a...
Measuring Transient X-rays with Lobster Eyes
May 23, 2012 (SPX)
A technology that mimics the structure of a lobster's eyes is now being applied to a new instrument that could help revolutionize X-ray astronomy and keep astro...
Production of chemicals without petroleum
May 23, 2012 (SPX)
In our everyday life, we use gasoline, diesel, plastics, rubbers, and numerous chemicals that are derived from fossil oil through petrochemical refinery process...
From Lemons to Lemonade: Reaction Uses CO2 to Make Carbon-Based Semiconductor
May 23, 2012 (SPX)
A materials scientist at Michigan Technological University has discovered a chemical reaction that not only eats up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, it also c...
Using Graphene, Scientists Develop a Less Toxic Way to Rust-Proof Steel
May 23, 2012 (SPX)
University at Buffalo researchers are making significant progress on rust-proofing steel using a graphene-based composite that could serve as a nontoxic alterna...
In chemical reactions, water adds speed without heat
May 23, 2012 (SPX)
An international team of researchers has discovered how adding trace amounts of water can tremendously speed up chemical reactions-such as hydrogenation and hyd...
In metallic glasses, researchers find a few new atomic structures
May 22, 2012 (SPX)
Drawing on powerful computational tools and a state-of-the-art scanning transmission electron microscope, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison and Iowa Sta...
New 'metamaterial' practical for optical advances
May 22, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers have taken a step toward overcoming a key obstacle in commercializing "hyperbolic metamaterials," structures that could bring optical advances inclu...
Apple still top global brand as value jumps: survey
May 22, 2012 (AFP)
Apple has extended its lead as the world's most valuable corporate name with a strong 19 percent increase in its so-called brand value, a survey showed Tuesday....
Google completes Motorola Mobility takeover
May 22, 2012 (AFP)
Google closed Tuesday its $12.5 billion deal for Motorola Mobility, a key manufacturer of smartphones and other devices that puts the Internet giant in head-to-...
Asia's largest gaming expo opens in Macau
May 22, 2012 (AFP)
Casino industry leaders met in the world's richest gambling hub of Macau on Tuesday for the Global Gaming Expo Asia, a three-day feast of gambling innovations, ...
Germany's SAP grabs US cloud firm for $4.3 bn
May 22, 2012 (AFP)
German business software giant SAP said Tuesday it was acquiring US cloud-based e-commerce firm Ariba for $4.3 billion in a move boosting its arsenal against ar...
At seventh birthday, YouTube marks new milestones
May 21, 2012 (AFP)
YouTube celebrated its seventh birthday by saying it has hit fresh milestones in terms of its offerings and the amount of time spent on the video-sharing websit...
China firm buys AMC to create cinema giant
May 21, 2012 (AFP)
Wanda, a property firm owned by one of China's richest men, said Monday it would buy US cinema chain AMC Entertainment for $2.6 billion, in a sign of China's gr...
Loral-Built Nimiq 6 Satellite ly Performs Post-Launch Maneuvers
May 20, 2012 (SPX)
Space Systems/Loral reports that the Nimiq 6 satellite, designed and built for Telesat, one of the world's leading satellite operators, is successfully performi...
SciTechTalk: Google to reign in Android
May 19, 2012 (UPI)
Google's recent decision to take a more active role in how its Android mobile operating system is used is seen as an attempt to address the single most vexing p...
The elusive capacity of networks
May 18, 2012 (SPX)
In its early years, information theory - which grew out of a landmark 1948 paper by MIT alumnus and future professor Claude Shannon - was dominated by research ...
Sulphur and iron compounds common in old shipwrecks
May 18, 2012 (SPX)
Sulphur and iron compounds have now been found in shipwrecks both in the Baltic and off the west coast of Sweden. The group behind the results, presented in the...
Freshwater crayfish found to have substance covering teeth astonishingly similar to human enamel
May 18, 2012 (SPX)
A team of Israeli and German scientists from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces have found an enam...
New twist on ancient math problem could improve medicine, microelectronics
May 18, 2012 (SPX)
A hidden facet of a math problem that goes back to Sanskrit scrolls has just been exposed by nanotechnology researchers at the University of Michigan and the Un...
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