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New Bluetooth System Orients Blind And Sighted Pedestrians
A new Bluetooth system designed primarily for blind people places a layer of information technology over the real world to tell pedestrians about points of interest along their path as...
Faulty Transformer Sidelines Atom Smasher
A 30-ton transformer that cools the world's largest particle collider malfunctioned hours after its anticipated launch. While the faulty transformer has been replaced, the malfunction went unreported for a week.
Lighting Research Center Develops Framework For Assessing Light Pollution
Balancing public and private interests for nighttime lighting has been a difficult undertaking, as too little lighting may increase safety and security issues, while too much lighting may cause problems...
First Dense Gas Of Ultracold 'Polar' Molecules Created
Scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have applied their expertise in ultracold atoms and lasers...
From sugar to gasoline
Following independent paths of investigation, two research teams are announcing this month that they have successfully converted sugar-potentially derived from agricultural waste and non-food plants-into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and...
Special thread authenticates clothes
A new technology has been developed to detect fraud in the clothing industry – small quantities of a thread that can be scanned to prove that items are genuine.
Skin Deep: Ancient, but How Safe?
The health industry has questions about metals like lead, mercury or arsenic being found in ayurvedic supplements.
Honda Develops New Multi-View Vehicle Camera System to Provide View of Surrounding Areas
Honda Motor announced that it has developed a multi-view camera system which displays views from multiple wide-angle CCD cameras on the vehicle`s navigation screen to reduce blind spots, support smooth...
Powerful microscopy technology created
DURHAM, N.C., Sept. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've developed a microscopy technology that might have a wide range of clinical applications by producing great depth and...
Optical sensors make MRI scans safer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic resonance scans will be safer for children and other patients needing anaesthesia, thanks to new kinds of optical sensors developed by a team of European researchers.
Dr Sergei Dudarev discusses magnetic process affecting the strength of metals
Dr Sergei Dudarev discusses magnetic process affecting the strength of metals
Study seeks to improve gas, diesel engines
AMES, Iowa, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Iowa State University scientists are studying gasoline and diesel engines with the goal of reducing emissions while improving efficiency.
Researchers meet major hydrogen milestone
A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory earlier this month reached a major milestone with the successful production of hydrogen through High-Temperature Electrolysis (HTE).
New Chemical Reaction Aids Drug Manufacture
Chemists at the University of Illinois at Chicago may have found a faster, cleaner, "greener" way to synthesize N-heterocycles, nitrogen-containing structures at the heart of almost all of the top...
Feature: Clearly infrared
An insight into how the high infrared transparency of chalcogenide glass promises technological innovation.
Extremely Detailed Images From Inside The Body Possible With New Technology
New technology will enable extremely detailed images to be made of the smallest structures of the human body. The aim is to detect the risk or commencement of an illness...
Innovative Hydrogen-powered Car Created
As the price of gasoline fuel soars, and concerns grow about the impact of car culture on the environment, a team of scientists have come up with a hydrogen-powered car,...
Noble metal nanoparticles deposit on the mycelium of growing fungi—an approach to new catalytic systems?
(PhysOrg.com) -- When fungi, such as penicillium, grow, they form a thread-like network, the mycelium. If the fungus is grown in a medium containing nanoscopic particles of a noble metal,...
Companies seek alternatives to plastic chemical
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health worries about a chemical found in many plastic products have created opportunities for companies catering to the growing market for products made without bisphenol A.
Letter: We must oppose the HIV-Aids deniers
Letter: Aids deniers undermine confidence in essential anti-retrovirals
Leica grabs bragging rights with 'fastest' lens
(AP) -- Before camera manufacturers one-upped each other with the number of megapixels, they one-upped each other with the zoom range of their lenses. And before that, in the...
Google and GE allies in quest for clean energy
Internet titan Google and technology colossus General Electric said Wednesday they are joining forces to promote a "smart" US electric power grid and clean energy policies.
New technique sees into tissue at greater depth, resolution
By coupling a kicked-up version of microscopy with miniscule particles of gold, Duke University scientists are now able to peer so deep into living tissue that they can see molecules...
Fullerene Traps Longest Metal-Metal Bond
Terbium atoms held inside C79N cage share a single electron
IBM Develops Computational Scaling Solution for Next Generation '22nm' Semiconductors
In response to ever increasing demands for smaller, more powerful and energy-efficient devices for cloud computing and high-performance servers, IBM today announced the semiconductor industry's first computationally based process for...
Next-generation nanofluidic devices near
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Sept. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've moved closer to producing next-generation, ultra-efficient nanofluidic devices for drug delivery and nano-manufacturing.
Coating copies microscopic biological surfaces
Someday, your car might have the metallic finish of some insects or the deep black of a butterfly's wing, and the reflectors might be patterned on the nanostructure of a...
Saint John looks at geothermal energy for city buildings
A Nova Scotia company that specializes in geothermal technology wants to take over the heating and cooling systems in five municipal buildings in Saint John.