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Date palm juice: A potential new 'green' anti-corrosion agent for aerospace industry

Sep 27, 2012 (SPX)

The search for a "greener" way to prevent corrosion on the kind of aluminum used in jetliners, cars and other products has led scientists to an unlikely source,...

Sleek new PlayStation 3 model makes US debut

Sep 27, 2012 (AFP)

Sleek new PlayStation 3 consoles took their places in US homes on Thursday as Sony tapped into its video game prowess to put itself at the heart of Internet Age...

Google's Schmidt hits out at mobile patent war

Sep 27, 2012 (AFP)

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt on Thursday criticised raging patent disputes in the global mobile industry, warning that they stifled innovation and red...

Global sales of 'smart devices' surging: study

Sep 26, 2012 (AFP)

Global sales of so-called smart connected devices -- computers, smartphones and tablets -- rose sharply in the past quarter, driven by smartphones and tablets, ...

Northrop Grumman Completes Field Installations of New B-2 Radar System

Sep 26, 2012 (SPX)

Northrop Grumman has completed - ahead of schedule - all field installations of a new radar system for the U.S. Air Force's fleet of B-2 stealth bombers. Every ...

Samsung launches new oversized smartphone

Sep 26, 2012 (AFP)

Samsung launched Wednesday the newest version of its oversized smartphone Galaxy Note, just a week after Apple's iPhone 5 hit shelves, in an apparent bid to out...

Setback for Lynas rare earths plant

Sep 26, 2012 (UPI)

Malaysia has put on hold a temporary license, issued earlier this month, for Australian miner Lynas Corp. to operate a rare earths plant. Local environmental gr...

New California Law Boosts Sustainable Materials Industry

Sep 26, 2012 (SPX)

California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law on Friday Assembly Bill 2205, which clears the way for a new, revolutionary materials industry in California. AB...

Space debris threatens ISS: report

Sep 26, 2012 (AFP)

The International Space Station is in danger of being hit by two pieces of debris from an old Russian satellite that had previously hit a US craft in 2009, a ne...

Cancer research yields unexpected new way to produce nylon

Sep 25, 2012 (SPX)

In their quest for a cancer cure, researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute made a serendipitous discovery - a molecule necessary for cheaper and greener ways to...

Yale Researchers Call for Specialty Metals Recycling

Sep 25, 2012 (SPX)

An international policy is needed for recycling scarce specialty metals that are critical in the production of consumer goods, according to Yale researchers in ...

Glass half full: Double-strength glass may be within reach

Sep 25, 2012 (SPX)

Glass is strong enough for so much: windshields, buildings and many other things that need to handle high stress without breaking. But scientists who look at th...

Retailers to add radical 'focus later' camera

Sep 25, 2012 (AFP)

A radical camera that lets users adjust the focus after taking pictures will be available in October at shops in Australia, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong and the...

Researchers Demonstrate Cheaper Way To Produce NFO Thin Films

Sep 25, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a less-expensive way to create textured nickel ferrit...

ORNL research uncovers path to defect-free thin films

Sep 24, 2012 (SPX)

A team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Ho Nyung Lee has discovered a strain relaxation phenomenon in cobaltites that has eluded researchers for decades a...

Data that lives forever is possible: Japan's Hitachi

Sep 24, 2012 (AFP)

As Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones prove, good music lasts a long time; now Japanese hi-tech giant Hitachi says it can last even longer -- a few hundred millio...

Humans were already recycling 13,000 years ago

Sep 24, 2012 (SPX)

A study at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES) reveals that humans from the Upper Pala...

'5,000 police' quell Foxconn brawl: state media

Sep 24, 2012 (AFP)

Around 5,000 police were deployed to control a mass brawl among workers at a Foxconn plant in northern China, state media said Monday after the factory was clos...

Drink, flirt, stumble home: there's a beer fest app for that

Sep 23, 2012 (AFP)

Whether you want to know how long until you're sober, flirt with like-minded single revellers or where to stumble home after a few, help is only a click away at...

SciTechTalk: Whither goest smartphones?

Sep 23, 2012 (UPI)

As on-line orders for Apple's iPhone 5 soared into the millions and the die-hard faithful set up sleeping bags and camp stoves in front of Apple retail stores i...