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Supermassive Black Hole Dissected With Natural Magnifying Glasses: 1,000 Times Clearer Than Best Telescopes Can Do Combining a double natural "magnifying glass" with the power of ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have scrutinised the inner parts of the disc around a ...
Feeling Old? Blame Your Nuclear Pores Changing of the guard. In these nuclei from muscle cells, yellow indicates where nuclear pore proteins are being replaced As if gimpy knees, clogged arteries, and forgetfulness weren't bad enough, new research has identified another way our ...
Application Of Plastic Electric Conductor Towards the Industrial Production Plastic that conduct electricity, and metal that weighs no more than a pen? It sounds like a world upside down. But some researchers have succeeded in creating plastics that conduct electricity and reduce ...
TV Ads Themselves Contribute to Child Obesity Researchers performed a statistical analysis of children s television viewing habits and found a link between the amount of time spent viewing fast food commercials and a risk of obesity. They suggest it is not the snacking done in ...
Molecular Forklifts Overcome Obstacle to Smart Dust Algae is a livid green giveaway of nutrient pollution in a lake. Scientists would love to reproduce that action in tiny particles that would turn different colors if exposed to biological weapons, food spoilage or signs of poor ...
Natural disasters doomed early civilization Nature turned against one of America's early civilizations 3,600 years ago, when researchers say earthquakes and floods, followed by blowing sand, drove away residents of an area that is now in Peru. "This maritime farming community had ...
Memory Improved 20% by Nature Walk New study finds that short-term memory is improved 20% by walking in nature, or even just by looking at an image of a natural scene. I'm sitting in front of the computer and I've been working too hard for too long without a break. My brain feels ...
Can you see me now? Flexible Photodetectors Could Help Sharpen Photos Distorted cell-phone photos and big, clunky telephoto lenses could be things of the past. UW-Madison Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Zhenqiang (Jack) Ma and colleagues have developed a ...
Extraplanet Discovered by Chinese-Japanese Joint Project A joint team of National Astronomical Observatories, CAS (NAOC) and Okayama Astrophysical Observatory, Japan, recently discovered an extrasolar planet by using 2.16m astronomical telescope and 1.88m astronomic telescope ...
New Holographic Method for Lab-on-a-Chip Technologies These images were taken from a video illustrating a new technique that uses a laser and holograms to precisely position clusters of numerous tiny particles within seconds, representing a potential new tool to analyze ...
Tablet-sized Robots are Smooth Operators A model of a self-assembling stomach robot: a magnetic mechanism connects three modules together via intermediate linkages In the future, tablet-shaped robots could perform some surgical operations without injuring the body. A new ...
New Hybrid Nanostructures Detect Nanoscale Magnetism A scanning electron micrograph of cobalt nanoclusters embedded in multi-walled carbon nanotubes. Researchers at Rensselaer used these new hybrid structures, the first of their kind, to detect magnetism at the nanoscale. Photo ...
Could Nanotech Create Speech-powered Phones? Power Harvesting Research Could Bring about Next Generation of Electronics Polarizable Charge Equilibration Interaction Potentials are essential in describing piezo- and ferro-electricity in ABO3 ceramics for sensors, actuators and ...
2009 law on innovation and research As every four years, the government published a bill on the organization of research. Approved by parliament in late January, he directs research policy for the next four years. The research budget of Sweden will increase by 1.5 billion Euros ...
Researchers Print Dense Lattice of Transparent Nanotube Transistors on Flexible Base Low-temperature process produces both n-type and p-type transistors; allows embedding of LEDs It's a clear, colorless disk about 5 inches in diameter that bends and twists like a playing card, ...
Could Nanotech Create Speech-powered Phones? Power Harvesting Research Could Bring about Next Generation of Electronics Polarizable Charge Equilibration Interaction Potentials are essential in describing piezo- and ferro-electricity in ABO3 ceramics for sensors, actuators and ...
Nontoxic Clean-up Method for Common, Potentially Toxic Nano Materials Horseradish enzyme biodegrades carbon nanotubes increasingly used in products, from electronics to plastics University of Pittsburgh researchers have developed the first natural, nontoxic method for biodegradin...
Pfeiffer Vacuum wins R&D 100 Award Asslar, Germany, October 16, 2008 Award-winners: HiPace turbopumps. Pfeiffer Vacuum has won the prestigious R&D 100 Award for the development of its HiPace turbopumps. The award pays tribute to the HiPace 80, HiPace 300 and HiPace 700 as one of ...
Tablet-sized Robots are Smooth Operators In the future, tablet-shaped robots could perform some surgical operations without injuring the body. A new publication by the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems of ETH Zurich shows how such surgical bio-microrobots might ...
Smarty Pants! Nanotube Clothing Glows in Response to Allergens One Smart Spool - Carbon Thread Electrically conductive, carbon nanotube-based clothing could be found on store shelves within a few years, say scientists who have developed a nanotube-dipped fabric (pictured here) ...
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Bill Gates talks nuclear
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates confirmed on Wednesday that he is ...
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Policies of China's new leadership in the ...
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), the world's second-largest drug producer by ...
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary ...
China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
The Number One Document also proposed a new pricing plan for China's ...
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
SHANGHAI, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- China, the world's top manufacturer and ...
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
A Wal-Mart store is seen in Stratford, Connecticut, the United States. ...
Gaming Firms Find Going Tough
Gaming Firms Find Going Tough
Employees demonstrate Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications' Xperia Play ...
Boeing Wins Biggest Order of US$26b
Boeing Wins Biggest Order of US$26b
A formation of nine Royal Air Force Red Arrows Hawk aircraft fly ...
Yao's gift of sport for all
Yao's gift of sport for all
Chinese NBA player Yao Ming teaches a boy with special needs how to ...
Lucrative golf industry lures stiff competition
Lucrative golf industry lures stiff competition
Two models stand beside golf equipment and bags at a recent golf ...
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
History-making tennis legend Li Na notched the first-ever grand slam ...