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British engineers hope to reboot 50-year-old computer

Oct 16, 2013 (UPI)

Engineers in Britain said they are working to reboot a 50-year-old computer nicknamed Flossie, one of the oldest surviving mass-produced computers. The National...

Circadian rhythms in skin stem cells protect us against UV rays

Oct 14, 2013 (SPX)

Human skin must cope with UV radiation from the sun and other harmful environmental factors that fluctuate in a circadian manner. A study published by Cell Pres...

Thousands march in Romania against Canadian mine plan

Oct 13, 2013 (AFP)

Thousands marched Sunday across Romania to protest against a Canadian company's plans to open a gold mine seen as a threat to the environment, and called for th...

Northwestern Researchers Develop Compact, High-Power Terahertz Source at Room Temperature

Oct 10, 2013 (SPX)

Terahertz (THz) radiation - radiation in the wavelength range of 30 to 300 microns - is gaining attention due to its applications in security screening, medical...

Quantum computers: Trust is good, proof is better

Oct 09, 2013 (SPX)

A quantum computer can solve tasks not tractable with conventional supercomputers. The question of how one can, nevertheless, verify the reliability of a quantu...

Ultraviolet light to the extreme

Oct 09, 2013 (SPX)

When you heat a tiny droplet of liquid tin with a laser, plasma forms on the surface of the droplet and produces extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light, which has a hi...

Himawari and Mitsubishi Electric Complete Facilities For Weather Satellite Ops

Oct 09, 2013 (SPX)

Himawari Operation Enterprise Corporation (Himawari Operation Enterprise) and Mitsubishi Electric have announced the completion of the ground operations system ...

Lockheed Martin and Concord Blue to Deploy Advanced Gasification Technology Globally

Oct 09, 2013 (SPX)

Lockheed Martin and Concord Blue USA, Inc., have reached an agreement to offer an advanced waste conversion system to address waste disposal, energy security an...

Disney Research develops algorithm for rendering 3-D tactile features on touch surfaces

Oct 08, 2013 (SPX)

A person sliding a finger across a topographic map displayed on a touch screen can feel the bumps and curves of hills and valleys, despite the screen's smooth s...

3D Printing: The Greener Choice

Oct 08, 2013 (SPX)

3D printing isn't just cheaper, it's also greener, says Michigan Technological University's Joshua Pearce. Even Pearce, an aficionado of the make-it-yourself-an...

World's Largest Solar Sail, Sunjammer, Completes Test

Oct 07, 2013 (SPX)

NASA officials, team partners, and local students were on hand to witness a key milestone for the Sunjammer Mission as it successfully deployed a quadrant of it...

Ultrasound system gives virtual feeling of objects in mid-air

Oct 07, 2013 (UPI)

Scientists in Britain say they've develop a technology that uses sound waves to create a "force field" that can simulate the feel of objects in mid-air. Researc...

A thermoelectric materials emulator

Oct 05, 2013 (SPX)

Discovered in the 19th century, thermoelectric materials have the remarkable property that heating them creates a small electrical current. But enhancing this c...

Lockheed Martin Powers on First GOES-R Weather Satellite

Oct 04, 2013 (SPX)

Lockheed Martin has powered on the system module of the GOES-R satellite for the first time. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series (GOE...

Protecting underground pipelines from corrosion in sub-zero environments

Oct 04, 2013 (SPX)

Northern Canada's permafrost and semi-permafrost environment is a huge challenge for designing and engineering underground pipelines, and a critical aspect of p...

AREVA awarded funding for innovative manufacturing technology

Oct 04, 2013 (SPX)

The AREVA group, together with a network of eight Burgundy-based corporate and academic partners and research labs, has received funding from the French public ...

Making household items on 3D printer said greener than factory versions

Oct 03, 2013 (UPI)

Making a plastic household item on a home 3D printer is greener than making them en masse in a factory and shipping them to a warehouse, a U.S. study found. Whi...

S. Korean steel plant in India could displace 22,000, says UN

Oct 01, 2013 (AFP)

United Nations human rights experts said Tuesday a giant steelmaking project by South Korean giant Posco in eastern India could displace up to 22,000 people who...

Bright, laser-based lighting devices

Oct 01, 2013 (SPX)

As a modern culture, we crave artificial white lights -- the brighter the better, and ideally using less energy than ever before. To meet the ever-escalating de...

China to be world's top gold buyer this year: experts

Oct 01, 2013 (AFP)

China is set to overtake India to become the world's top gold consumer this year, as the driving forces in the market shift from West to East, an industry assoc...