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Mar 11, 2013 (AFP)

The hugely popular SimCity game is rapidly recovering from its trouble-plagued launch but problems are yet to be completely eradicated, company officials said. ...

INRS overcomes a hurdle in the development of terahertz lasers

Mar 11, 2013 (SPX)

Dr. Roberto Morandotti and his team at the INRS Energie Materiaux Telecommunications Research Centre have developed a device that is critical to the use of tera...

Activists fault WHO report on Fukushima radiation

Mar 11, 2013 (AFP)

Activist physicians on Monday accused the World Health Organization of downplaying the health impact of nuclear fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster. In ...

SXSW kicks off with vision of a 3D printing revolution

Mar 08, 2013 (AFP)

The 27th edition of South by Southwest kicked off Friday with a bold prediction that desktop 3D printing will unleash a new industrial revolution guided by "cre...

MEXSAT Bicentenario Satellite Completes On-orbit Testing

Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)

The MEXSAT Bicentenario satellite, built by Boeing [NYSE: BA] partner Orbital Sciences Corporation [NYSE: ORB], has completed on-orbit testing and has been acce...

Neutron scattering provides data on adsorption of ions in microporous materials

Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)

The adsorption of ions in microporous materials governs the operation of technologies as diverse as water desalination, energy storage, sensing and mechanical a...

Atoms with Quantum-Memory

Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)

Order tends towards disorder. This is also true for quantum states. Measurements at the Vienna University of Technology show that in quantum mechanics this tran...

Big data: Searching in large amounts of data quickly and efficiently

Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)

The term "big data" is defined as a huge amount of digital information, so big and so complex that normal database technology cannot process it. It is not only ...

Physicists demonstrate the acceleration of electrons by a laser in a vacuum

Mar 05, 2013 (SPX)

Accelerating a free electron with a laser has been a longtime goal of solid-state physicists. David Cline, a distinguished professor in the UCLA Department of P...

Towards more sustainable construction

Mar 05, 2013 (SPX)

Construction in Montreal is under a microscope. Now more than ever, municipal builders need to comply with long-term urban planning goals. The difficulties surr...

Creating your own animated 3D characters and scenes for the web

Mar 05, 2013 (SPX)

It could be a grotto. Light is glowing up from below and gives the moving waves a glance of an opal under the sunlight. "This computer graphic was written with ...

3D printer wows world's top high-tech fair

Mar 05, 2013 (AFP)

Of all the futuristic gadgets on show at CeBIT, the world's top high-tech fair, few drew bigger crowds Tuesday than a 3D printer creating solid objects in plast...

SimCity rebuilt for modern life

Mar 04, 2013 (AFP)

A 10-year wait ends Tuesday with the arrival of 'SimCity,' a computer game that challenges players to build thriving cities in the face of conditions such as li...

Taiwan turns plastic junk into blankets, dolls

Mar 01, 2013 (AFP)

Some 40 people stand ankle-deep in used plastic bottles in the yard of a recycling station in Taipei, stamping them flat in the first step of a process that wil...

Ancient Egyptian pigment points to new security ink technology

Feb 28, 2013 (SPX)

A bright blue pigment used 5,000 years ago is giving modern scientists clues toward the development of new nanomaterials with potential uses in state-of-the-art...

In probing mysteries of glass, researchers find a key to toughness

Feb 28, 2013 (SPX)

In a paper published online in the journal Nature Communications, a Yale University team and collaborators propose a way of predicting whether a given glass wil...

Force is the Key to Granular State-Shifting

Feb 28, 2013 (SPX)

Ever wonder why sand can both run through an hourglass like a liquid and be solid enough to support buildings? It's because granular materials - like sand or di...

Fukushima raised cancer risk near plant: WHO

Feb 28, 2013 (AFP)

Japan's 2011 Fukushima disaster raised the cancer risk for people living near the atomic plant, but no jump in cases is expected elsewhere, the UN's health agen...

Nanowelding Using Light And Nanorods In Solid Materials

Feb 28, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a way to melt or "weld" specific portions of polymers by embedding aligned nanoparticles within ...

Theory of crystal formation complete again

Feb 28, 2013 (SPX)

Exactly how a crystal forms from solution is a problem that has occupied scientists for decades. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), toget...