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:: 17 November, 2009
Last week, as I tapped a laptop keyboard in Massachusetts, a humanoid robot whirled around a lab in California. I tapped more slowly and the robot...
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:: 09 November, 2009
Cooling strontium could lead to increasingly precise clocks, quantum computers and ultracold chemistry.
Two independent teams have, for the...
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:: 07 November, 2009
Standard laser devices are fast enough for measuring the size of a room, but they need to be faster for outdoor mobile applications. Researchers...
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:: 07 November, 2009
Polishing metal surfaces is a demanding but monotonous task, and it is difficult to find qualified young specialists. Polishing machines do not...
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:: 03 November, 2009
Tiny laser-scanning microscope images brain cells in freely moving animals.By building a tiny microscope small enough to be carried around on a...
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:: 31 October, 2009
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a nanoscale crystal device that, for the first time, allows scientists...
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:: 31 October, 2009
A team of Harvard chemists led by X. Sunney Xie has developed a new microscopic technique for seeing, in color, molecules with undetectable...
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:: 26 October, 2009
Imagine yourself at the core of Jupiter, a planet 300 times the mass of Earth. At 35,000 degrees Fahrenheit, you and I might think it’s hot in...
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:: 24 October, 2009
Aerospace, automotive and airplane construction count on lightweight construction. But to make sure that lightening the load does not come at the...
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:: 21 October, 2009
Plans for genetic analyses of 100,000 older Californians--the first time genetic data will be generated for such a large and diverse group--will...
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:: 20 October, 2009
Diamonds, secure software, medications – at Fraunhofer USA, the research portfolio covers a vast array of topics. Exactly 15 years ago, Germany's...
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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
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
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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:: 03 October, 2009
An energy-efficient silicon device compresses light to make ultrafast signals.
Researchers at Cornell University have developed a simple...
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:: 03 October, 2009
An international team of physicists has for the first time observed magnetic behaviour in an atomic gas, addressing a decades-old debate as to...
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:: 29 September, 2009
University of Michigan physicists have created the first atomic-scale maps of quantum dots, a major step toward the goal of producing "designer...
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:: 22 September, 2009
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a new way to deliver drugs into cancer cells by exposing them briefly to a non-harmful laser. Their...
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:: 20 September, 2009
If you are in the business of developing high-speed electronic components, it pays not to lose sight of the electrons. To keep track of them you...
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:: 20 September, 2009
For the first time, MIT scientists have observed ferromagnetic behavior in an atomic gas, addressing a decades-old question of whether it is...
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