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Facebook seeks to get smarter with big data

Dec 14, 2013 (AFP)

Facebook is working to become your new best friend, getting to know you better by infusing the billion-member social network's software with artificial intellig...

New sensor tracks zinc in cells

Dec 14, 2013 (SPX)

Zinc, an essential nutrient, is found in every tissue in the body. The vast majority of the metal ion is tightly bound to proteins, helping them to perform biol...

A Stopwatch for Electron Flashes

Dec 14, 2013 (SPX)

Physicists at LMU Munich and the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics measure the duration of energetic electron pulses using laser fields. A stopwatch made o...

China trims rare earth quota for H1 2014

Dec 13, 2013 (AFP)

China on Friday trimmed its export quota for rare earth resources for the first half of next year. The country produces more than 95 percent of the world's rare...

Intense 2-color double X-ray laser pulses: a powerful tool to study ultrafast processes

Dec 12, 2013 (SPX)

A team working at the SACLA X-ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL) in Japan has succeeded in generating ultra-bright, two-color X-ray laser pulses, for the first time...

Citrus fruit inspires a new energy-absorbing metal structure

Dec 12, 2013 (SPX)

It has been said that nature provides us with everything that we need. A new study appearing in Springer's Journal of Materials Science may lend credence to tha...

Highly insulating windows are very energy efficient, though expensive

Dec 12, 2013 (SPX)

Highly insulating triple-pane windows keep a house snug and cozy, but it takes two decades or more for the windows to pay off financially based on utility-bill ...

First Boeing-built Inmarsat-5 Global Xpress Satellite Sends Initial On-Orbit Signals

Dec 11, 2013 (SPX)

The first Boeing Inmarsat-5 satellite has launched and sent signals from orbit, the initial step to establishing Global Xpress, the world's first globally avail...

Google opens first data centres in Asia

Dec 11, 2013 (AFP)

US search engine giant Google Wednesday opened its first data centres in Asia to cater for soaring demand, and said it would double its planned investment in th...

New setback for Canadian gold mine plan

Dec 10, 2013 (AFP)

Romanian lawmakers on Tuesday rejected a controversial new mining bill that would have cleared the way for a huge Canadian gold mine project in the heart of Tra...

Goddard Planetary Instruments Score a Hat Trick

Dec 10, 2013 (SPX)

Planetary instruments from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., hit the trifecta on Dec. 4, running three experiments of the same kind at diffe...

Berkeley Lab Researchers Create a Nonlinear Light-generating Zero-Index MetaMaterial

Dec 09, 2013 (SPX)

The Information Age will get a major upgrade with the arrival of quantum processors many times faster and more powerful than today's supercomputers. For the ben...

An ecosystem-based approach to protect the deep sea from mining

Dec 09, 2013 (SPX)

Five hundred miles southeast of Hawai'i, in international waters far out of sight of any land, there are vast mineral resources 5,000 meters below the sea. Mang...

Study shows how water dissolves stone, molecule by molecule

Dec 09, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists from Rice University and the University of Bremen's Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) in Germany have combined cutting-edge experiment...

SST Australia: Signed, Sealed and Ready for Delivery

Dec 09, 2013 (SPX)

As satellites become more common, they face growing risk of colliding with space debris and even each other. The U.S. Department of Defense has thus made space ...

Scientists build a low-cost, open-source 3D metal printer

Dec 08, 2013 (SPX)

OK, so maybe you aren't interested in making your own toys, cellphone cases, or glow-in-the-dark Christmas decorations. How about a brake drum? Until now, 3D pr...

New Effect Couples Electricity and Magnetism in Materials

Dec 08, 2013 (SPX)

In magneto-electric materials, electric and magnetic vibrations can be coupled to "electromagnons". High hopes are placed on this technology, a breakthrough cou...

Teaching matter waves new tricks: Making magnets with ultra cold atoms

Dec 08, 2013 (SPX)

Magnets have fascinated mankind for millenia. From the Greek philosophers to scientists of the modern era, which saw the rise of quantum mechanics, magnets have...

Making a gem of a tiny crystal

Dec 08, 2013 (SPX)

Nature builds flawless diamonds, sapphires and other gems. Now a Northwestern University research team is the first to build near-perfect single crystals out of...

When aluminum outshines gold

Dec 08, 2013 (SPX)

Humble aluminum's plasmonic properties may make it far more valuable than gold and silver for certain applications, according to new research by Rice University...