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JILA team demonstrates a new way of lasing: A 'superradiant' laser
Apr 10, 2012 (SPX)
Physicists at JILA have demonstrated a novel "superradiant" laser design, which has the potential to be 100 to 1,000 times more stable than the best conventiona...
US cracks down on smartphone theft
Apr 10, 2012 (AFP)
Citing a surge in violent robberies, US authorities and cellphone carriers announced Tuesday an effort to crack down on smartphone theft. The major carriers and...
Space Debris Remediation - Who Are We Kidding?
Apr 10, 2012 (SPX)
Over the past few years we have endured idea after idea on how to remove space debris. The list is almost endless. There is the ground-based high energy laser t...
Free apps drain smartphone energy on 'advertising modules'
Apr 10, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers have shown that popular free smartphone apps spend up to 75 percent of their energy tracking the user's geographical location, sending information a...
To boldly go where no glass has gone before
Apr 10, 2012 (SPX)
QUT's first foray into space is bound to be a giant step for mankind. Dr Martin Castillo from Queensland University of Technology's (QUT) Science and Engineerin...
Defying conventional wisdom, water can float on oil
Apr 10, 2012 (SPX)
Defying thousands of years of conventional wisdom, scientists are reporting that it is possible for water to float on oil, a discovery they say has important po...
China sets up rare earth body to boost sector
Apr 09, 2012 (AFP)
China has set up a rare earth industry group, the government said Monday, in a bid to streamline the sprawling sector and fend off complaints about Beijing's se...
Facebook buys Instagram photo app for $1 bn
Apr 09, 2012 (AFP)
Facebook on Monday announced a billion-dollar-deal to buy the startup behind wildly popular smartphone photo sharing application Instagram. The big ticket purch...
New York pay phones to get touchy feely makeover
Apr 09, 2012 (AFP)
A handful of grimy New York pay phones will be reincarnated as touch-screen pads with online access to neighborhood information, the mayor's office said Monday....
Company touts self-healing film for screen
Apr 09, 2012 (UPI)
A Japanese firm says it is getting ready to mass produce a film coating that will allow scratches on electronic device screens to self-heal. Toray Advanced Film...
Colombia's tinted gold passes for precious stones
Apr 08, 2012 (AFP)
All that glitters is gold under a new thermochemical process developed by Colombian engineers for color-tinting the precious metal to make it look like sapphire...
Boy in China sells kidney to buy iPhone: state media
Apr 06, 2012 (AFP)
A teenage high-school student in China sold his kidney for an illicit transplant operation and used the proceeds to buy an Apple iPhone and iPad, state press sa...
'Mass Effect 3' fans promised expanded ending
Apr 06, 2012 (AFP)
Fans of hit videogame "Mass Effect 3" will get "more closure" to the end of the saga in add-on software to be available free for download in the months ahead. T...
Court revives Viacom copyright suit against YouTube
Apr 05, 2012 (AFP)
A US appeals court on Thursday revived a billion-dollar lawsuit filed by entertainment giant Viacom accusing Google-owned website YouTube of knowingly profiting...
Google chief betting big on social and mobile
Apr 05, 2012 (AFP)
Google co-founder Larry Page on Thursday said that his first year back at the company's helm has been marked by big bets on social networking and mobile gadgets...
Google gives glimpse of Internet glasses
Apr 04, 2012 (AFP)
Google on Wednesday gave the world a glimpse of its vision for letting people look at life through Internet-tinted glasses. A video posted at a Project Glass pa...
Handover of Japan-built Radar to NASA
Apr 04, 2012 (SPX)
On March 30, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) officially handed off a new satellite instrument to NASA at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, M...
New understanding of how materials change when rapidly heated
Apr 03, 2012 (SPX)
Collaboration between the University of Southampton and the University of Cambridge has made ground-breaking advances in our understanding of the changes that m...
Northrop Grumman Conducts Air and Missile Defense Radar System Reviews
Apr 03, 2012 (SPX)
Northrop Grumman has completed two key rounds of program reviews for the U.S. Navy's Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) program, demonstrating the program is ...
Honeycombs of magnets could lead to new type of computer processing
Apr 03, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists have taken an important step forward in developing a new material using nano-sized magnets that could ultimately lead to new types of electronic devi...
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