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Astronomers Find Coldest, Driest, Calmest Place On Earth The high, flat, and cold environment of the Antarctic Plateau at Dome C, one of the areas that astronomers have identified recently as a possible location for a future observatory. (Credit: Stephen Hudson / Courtesy of ...
Star-birth Myth 'Busted' False-colour images of two galaxies, NGC 1566 (left) and NGC 6902 (right), showing their different proportions of very massive stars. Regions with massive O stars show up as white or pink, while less massive B stars appear in blue. NGC 1566 is much richer ...
'Plasmobot': Scientists To Design First Robot Using Mould Scientists at the University of the West of England are to design the first ever biological robot using mould. Researchers have received a Leverhulme Trust grant worth 228,000 to develop the amorphous non-silicon ...
Rewriting General Relativity? Putting A New Model Of Quantum Gravity Under The Microscope Scientists are trying to figure out to what extent a new theory of quantum gravity will reproduce general relativity -- the theory that currently explains, to very high accuracy, how masses ...
Storms In The Tropics Of Saturn's Moon Titan Discovered Solar cells could soon be produced more cheaply using nanoparticle inks that allow them to be printed like newspaper or painted onto the sides of buildings or rooftops to absorb electricity-producing sunlight. Brian Korgel, ...
Scientists demonstrate wireless power supplies that can charge up devices from a metre away The plug could be banished to the dustbin after the demonstration of a new wireless power supply which could charge a device from a metre away. Japanese scientists say the device could ...
Mega black hole twice as big as we thought THE black hole at the centre of the M87 galaxy may be twice as big as originally thought - possibly large enough to measure directly. M87 is 55 million light years away. Its central black hole devours vast amounts of gas and spews out a ...
Planet found orbiting its star backwards for first time An exoplanet that orbits its star backwards has been found for the first time. The planet is also the most bloated found to date, and some astronomers suspect that both properties can be traced back to an earlier close ...
New DNA Test Uses Nanotechnology To Find Early Signs Of Cancer Using tiny crystals called quantum dots, Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a highly sensitive test to look for DNA attachments that often are early warning signs of cancer. This test, which detects both the ...
New Nanolaser Key To Future Optical Computers And Technologies Researchers have created the tiniest laser since its invention nearly 50 years ago, paving the way for a host of innovations, including superfast computers that use light instead of electrons to process information, ...
Storms In The Tropics Of Saturn's Moon Titan Discovered similarities to Earth clouds that pour rain (albeit liquid methane not liquid water) onto the surface producing lakes and rivers, vast dune fields in desert-like regions, plus a smoggy orange atmosphere that looks like Los ...
World Record In Packing Puzzle Set In Tetrahedra Jam: Better Understanding Of Matter Itself? Finding the best way to pack the greatest quantity of a specifically shaped object into a confined space may sound simple, yet it consistently has led to deep mathematical concepts and ...
Nanoparticles promise superfast batteries Embed the right nanoparticles in porous carbon and you have an electrode that combines the high storage capacity of batteries with the high power output of ultracapacitors. The electrode consists of lithium iron phosphate particles ...
Asteroid Is Actually A Protoplanet, Study Of First High-resolution Images Of Pallas Confirms Pallas's largest crater-like feature seen in the digital model (left) and from two perspectives: appearing face-on (upper right) and edge-on along the limb (lower right). (Credit: This ...
A Metal Coating That Repairs Itself Airplanes, cars, and ships that don't corrode are the promise of self-healing paint coatings and polymer materials. Now researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation in Stuttgart, Germany have come up with ...
Bacteria make nanomagnets for navigating the oceans The genetic code for nano-sized biological magnets called "magnetosomes" has been cracked. Magnetosomes are created by oxygen-hating bacteria to allow them to steer by the Earth's magnetic field, often to deep regions of the ...
Pfeiffer Vacuum Introduces New OmniStar Gas Analysis System Pfeiffer Vacuum, one of the world's leading producers of vacuum products and services, introduces the new OmniStar gas analysis system. It offers precise monitoring of up to 128 gases and is faster, smaller and easier to ...
Radio Waves 'See' Through Walls On the left, a person walks around inside a square of 28 radio transceivers (mounted on plastic pipes) in the Warnock Engineering Building's atrium at the University of Utah. The person creates "shadows" in the radio waves, resulting in the image ...
Tiny 'nuclear batteries' unveiled Researchers have demonstrated a penny-sized "nuclear battery" that produces energy from the decay of radioisotopes. As radioactive substances decay, they release charged particles that when properly harvested can create an electrical current. ...
Moon crash: Public yawns, scientists celebrate WASHINGTON NASA's great lunar fireworks finale fizzled. After gearing up for the space agency's much-hyped mission to hurl two spacecraft into the moon, the public turned away from the sky Friday anything but dazzled. Photos and ...
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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 ...