IBM Scientists Build Computer Chips From DNA (Tuesday 18th of August 2009 01:30:01 AM)
Snydeq writes "Scientists at IBM are experimenting with using DNA molecules as a way to create
tiny circuits that could form the basis of smaller, more mighty thinking machine* chips. The
system builds on work done by Cal Tech's Paul Rothemund, who found ...
(more)Scientists Wonder What Fingerprints Are For (Sunday 14th of June 2009 06:00:07 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "The BBC reports that scientists say they have disproved the theory that
fingerprints improve grip by increasing friction between people's fingers and the surface they
are holding. Dr Roland Ennos designed a machine which enabled him ...
(more)A Supervolcano Beneath Mt. St. Helens? (Sunday 14th of June 2009 06:00:07 PM)
We've discussed the supervolcano beneath Yellowstone a few times here (not going to blow, 2004;
going to blow, 2008). Now scientists are cogitation whether a large area of conductive matter
beneath Mt. St. Helens might contain enough magma that the area ...
(more)Device Reads Messages From Surface of the Brain (Thursday 04th of June 2009 04:15:01 AM)
Al writes "Technology Review has a story about a start-up company that has big a more-accurate
and less-invasive way to read a clientele thoughts. Neurolutions, based in St Louis has ripe a
small implanted device that translates signals laugh soundtrack ...
(more)Laser Blast Makes Regular Light Bulbs Super-Efficient (Tuesday 02nd of June 2009 01:45:01 AM)
Guruevi writes with news that a process using an ultra-powerful laser can crank up the
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(more)Strings Link the Ultra-Cold With the Super-Hot (Wednesday 15th of April 2009 10:00:01 AM)
Gabrlknght writes "Superstring theory claims the power to explain the universe, but critics say
it can't be tested by experiment. Lately, though, string math has helped explain a couple of
out of the blue* experiments creating 'perfect liquids' at cosmic ...
(more)Coming Soon, 250 DVDs In a Quarter-Sized Device (Friday 20th of February 2009 10:30:01 PM)
Several readers have remarked on a new technic grown-up by scientists at UC Berkeley and health
center of Massachusetts Amherst that has the promise of achieving storage densities of 10
terabits per square inch. "The method lets microscopic nanoscale ...
(more)Fly Me To Which Moon? (Wednesday 11th of February 2009 07:45:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "NASA and the catalan Space Agency are 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt
printing company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt printing company. all rights
reserved.view results from: 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing ...
(more)FIRST Robotics Competition Announced (Sunday 04th of January 2009 10:00:01 AM)
Z80xxc! writes "FIRST (For clarion and credit of Science and Technology) has officially
announced the 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition. This competition, started by draftsman Dean
Kamen, encourages high-school students to design and build robots to compete ...
(more)Microsoft makes Surface look dated with SecondLight (Thursday 30th of October 2008 02:47:00 PM)
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(more)Kids-on with the SMART Table (Thursday 23rd of October 2008 07:23:00 PM)
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
We got to play around with a SMART Table in a classroom full of
lucky kids at Haines Elementary School in Chicago this morning, and we came away impressed with
how much they loved it. The multitouch table is built on the ...
(more)Surface analysis exposes counterfeit medicines (Wednesday 15th of October 2008 12:26:00 PM)
CERAM Surface and Materials anatomy has published a white paper highlighting how surface
dissection can expose counterfeit medicines. It describes how technologies such as X-ray
photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy ...
(more)Universal Surface Scanner Detected (Saturday 27th of September 2008 12:30:06 AM)
Mcgrew writes to tell us that scientists at the health center of California, San Diego, have
created a new system that can test any surface for just about anything. "Their idea uses a thin
layer of metal drilled with nanoscale holes, laid onto the surface ...
(more)Capturing 3D Surfaces Simply With a Flash Camera (Thursday 28th of August 2008 03:30:03 PM)
MojoKid writes with this excerpt from Hot plumbing (linking to a video demonstration):
"Creating 3D maps and worlds can be extremely labor exhaustive and time consuming. Also, the
final result might not be all that exact or realistic. A new means grown-up ...
(more)Moon Rocks Still In Demand After Almost 40 Years (Monday 14th of July 2008 02:35:22 PM)
During NASA's Apollo missions to the moon, roughly 842 pounds of rocks were collected from the
lunar surface. Scientific demand for the rocks has always been high, and a review board tracks
and sends out hundreds of samples each year, even now, decades ...
(more)Pieces of Ancient Earth May Be Hidden On the Moon (Saturday 28th of June 2008 06:40:26 PM)
Swestcott brings us a story from Space.com about the break of finding testimony for ancient
Earth life on the moon. A team of scientists has published work confirming that meteorites
originating from Earth could have remained sufficiently intact while ...
(more)NASA Launches Satellite To Monitor Oceans (Monday 23rd of June 2008 01:15:03 PM)
On Friday, NASA launched the Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason 2 adherent into orbit to
begin a blow-by-blow study of ocean currents, sea-surface height, and surface topology.
Scientists hope to use the data gathered by Jason 2 in order to better ...
(more)Scientists Image an HIV Particle Being Born (Monday 26th of May 2008 09:30:03 AM)
FiReaNGeL alerts us to a huge evolution in virology and microscopy: by using a specialized
microscope that only illuminates a cell's surface, scientists at Rockefeller health center have
watched, in real time, hundreds of thousands of molecules coming ...
(more)Mars Harder and Colder Than Previously Thought (Sunday 18th of May 2008 01:38:49 AM)
Coondoggie writes "Turns out that the surface of Mars is stiffer and colder than ante thought.
New observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mark that any liquid water that might
exist below the planet's surface and any possible organisms living ...
(more)Microsoft intros the TouchWall -- maps will never be the same again (Thursday 15th of May 2008 05:13:00 PM)
Filed under: Displays
If you've been calorie positive integer CNN's polls coverage lately (and
we think you have), then you've perchance seen anchor John King tripping the light fantastic on
the channel's Magic Wall touchscreen. Apparently, Microsoft ...
(more)Ready for a CyberWalk? (Saturday 12th of April 2008 08:15:10 AM)
Roland Piquepaille writes "Even with recent improvements in virtual reality technology, it's
still almost impossible to physically walk through virtual environments. Now, provencal
researchers have started a project named CyberWalk and they'll demonstrate ...
(more)Microsoft Surface launching April 17th... with AT&T (Wednesday 02nd of April 2008 06:57:00 AM)
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
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cellphone. It has, however, chosen ...
(more)Video: AT&T's Surface makes comparing phones, transmitting illnesses a breeze (Thursday 03rd of April 2008 12:19:00 AM)
Filed under: Cellphones, Features
So what you see here is exactly what AT&T and Microsoft will
be deploying to a handful of stores on April 17 -- 12 stores in four cities, to be exact -- and
we have to admit, this appears to be a ...
(more)Cassini Finds Evidence For Ocean Inside Titan (Friday 21st of March 2008 01:15:06 AM)
Riding with Robots writes "NASA reports that by using data from the Cassini probe's radar,
scientists established the locations of 50 unique landmarks on the surface of Saturn's
planet-size moon Titan. They then searched for these same lakes, canyons ...
(more)Lumin's MultiTouch display does... uh, multi-touch (Sunday 27th of January 2008 06:20:00 PM)
Filed under: Displays
If you've absolutely, no catch* got to have a multi-touch display system
right this second, look no further than the Germany company Lumin and its creatively named
MultiTouch. For an undisclosed price (available on request) you and ...
(more)Artificial Blood Vessels Grow On Nano-Template (Wednesday 19th of December 2007 12:30:05 PM)
Invisible Pink Unicorn writes "Researchers at MIT have found a way to induce cells to form
parallel tube-like structures that could one day lead to tiny engineered blood vessels. The
researchers found that they can control the cells' development by growing ...
(more)The Dark Side of Iapetus (Tuesday 09th of October 2007 12:15:02 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "The characteristic in screen between Iapetus' leading and trailing
hemispheres is striking. NASA's Jet Propulsion Labs has just released a report on a bizarre
'runaway' process that may explain the strange and dramatically two-toned ...
(more)Titan's Tropical Weather (Wednesday 03rd of October 2007 05:15:03 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Climate workers
antonyms: pupils Ray Pierrehumbert and Jonathan Mitchell
at the health center of Chicago say that Titan, the only moon in the solar system large enough
to support an atmosphere, has many of the same weather features ...
(more)Astronomer Offers Theory Into 400-year-Old Lunar Mystery (Saturday 04th of August 2007 06:15:04 PM)
Webdoodle writes "An astronomer at Columbia University thinks he has solved a 400-year-old
mystery: the origin of strange optical flashes seen on the moon's surface. These spots, called
'Transient Lunar Phenomenon' (TLP) by the astronomy community, have ...
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