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Today's young inventors are tomorrow's technological and entrepreneurial leaders. The $50,000 Intellectual Ventures-Caltech Invention Competition...

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:: 19 October, 2009
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have identified an unexpected metabolic ability within a symbiotic community of...

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:: 19 October, 2009
A collaboration of chemists, mathematicians and engineers at Michigan State University is driving to improve solar panel technology, backed by a...

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:: 19 October, 2009
A 21-year Michigan State University experiment that distills the essence of evolution in laboratory flasks not only demonstrates natural selection...

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:: 19 October, 2009
Drugs made using unusual metals could form an effective treatment against colon and ovarian cancer, including cancerous cells that have developed...

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:: 18 October, 2009
The search for renewable power amounts to attempts to mimic, capture or concentrate the energy produced by nature that is swirling around us...

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:: 18 October, 2009
A lecturer from The University of Manchester is making a racket about mathematics after being appointed as ambassador for his subject.
John...

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:: 17 October, 2009
This March, researchers at the National Ignition Facility demonstrated a 1.1 megajoule laser designed to ignite nuclear fusion reactions by 2010....

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:: 16 October, 2009
A startup that is developing a process to convert a wide range of materials, including wood chips and garbage, into ethanol has moved a step closer...

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:: 16 October, 2009
Vast amounts of the clean-burning fossil fuel have been discovered in shale deposits, setting off a gas rush. But how it will affect our energy use...

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:: 16 October, 2009
A functioning strip of heart muscle has been created from mouse embryonic stem cells, thanks to the identification of a new type of cardiac stem...

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:: 16 October, 2009
In the last few years, head-up displays (HUDs), which project information onto the driver's view of the road, have started appearing in a few...

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:: 16 October, 2009
In the world of online fraud, as in real life, the longer miscreants can operate without being caught, the more money they stand to make. And...

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:: 16 October, 2009
A knowledge gap exists in the area of climate research: for decades, scientists have been asking themselves whether, and to what extent man-made...

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:: 16 October, 2009
The distant past of the universe is moving closer. Astronomers are using special spectrographs to investigate galaxies in the depths of the...

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:: 16 October, 2009
A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the Ludwig Maximilians University have succeeded in applying a novel...

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:: 16 October, 2009
The destructive force of tropical cyclones in East and Southeast Asia is back in the headlines. ETH-Zurich researcher Michael Faber, Professor of...

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:: 16 October, 2009
Imagine a wall of screens that displays high-resolution images. Imagine that, with just a simple wave of your hand, you can interact with them. We...

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:: 16 October, 2009
Since the early days of quantum physics in the 1920s and 30s, it has been suggested time and again that electric “continuous currents” flow in tiny...

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:: 16 October, 2009
Scientists at the Universität Heidelberg and the University of Edinburgh have identified the hitherto unknown function of a mechanoenzyme involved...

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