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Modern lives in US are multi-screen: Google

Aug 29, 2012 (AFP)

Google on Wednesday released research showing that lives in the United States have gone multi-screen, with people bouncing between smartphones, tablets, compute...

Samsung vows 'all measures' to keep products in US

Aug 28, 2012 (AFP)

South Korea's Samsung Electronics vowed on Tuesday to take "all necessary measures" to keep its products on US store shelves, in response to Apple's request for...

'Frankenstein' computer program created

Aug 28, 2012 (UPI)

U.S. computer scientists say they've created a "Frankenstein" software program to help develop defenses against new kinds of cyberattacks. Saying to catch a thi...

The Laser Beam as a 3D Painter

Aug 28, 2012 (SPX)

With laser beams, molecules can be fixed at exactly the right position in a three dimensional material. The new method developed at the Vienna University of Tec...

Weighing molecules one at a time

Aug 28, 2012 (SPX)

A team led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have made the first-ever mechanical device that can measure the mass of individual ...

Brazil bids to become world's third IT market by 2022

Aug 28, 2012 (AFP)

Brazil hopes to capitalize on the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics to advance its goal of becoming the world's third largest information technology a...

Southampton physicists join search for hidden magnetic states

Aug 28, 2012 (SPX)

Physicists from the University of Southampton were among the first researchers to use the new high magnetic-field beamline at Diamond Light Source, the UK's nat...

Is This Real or Just Fantasy? ONR Augmented-Reality Initiative Progresses

Aug 27, 2012 (SPX)

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is demonstrating the next phase of an augmented-reality project Aug. 23 in Princeton, N.J., that will change the way warfight...

US braces for holiday clash of tech giants

Aug 26, 2012 (AFP)

It's beginning to look a lot like a big season in the United States for mobile gadgets. A major event is the still-rumored launch by Apple in September of a new...

SciTechTalk: Tablets: Does size matter?

Aug 26, 2012 (UPI)

As tablet computers proliferate and look more and more alike, Apple and Samsung have thrown down the legal gauntlet. A California jury Friday found Samsung infr...

Apple patent win may reshape sector, slow Google

Aug 25, 2012 (AFP)

Apple's decisive victory in a landmark US patent case against Samsung could reshape the hot sector for mobile devices and slow the momentum of Google and its An...

New catalyst could improve production of glass alternatives

Aug 24, 2012 (SPX)

University of Oregon chemists have identified a catalyst that could dramatically reduce the amount of waste made in the production of methyl methacrylate, a mon...

China to expand rare earths reserves: report

Aug 24, 2012 (AFP)

China plans to add 18,000 tonnes of rare earths to its strategic reserves following an agreement with a domestic producer, a state-linked newspaper said Friday....

Silicone Foul Release Coatings Show Most Promise at Managing Quagga and Zebra Mussels at Water and Hydropower Facilities

Aug 24, 2012 (SPX)

The Bureau of Reclamation has found that silicone foul release coatings may be an important tool for mitigating invasive quagga and zebra mussels' impacts to wa...

Elusive metal discovered

Aug 24, 2012 (SPX)

Carnegie scientists are the first to discover the conditions under which nickel oxide can turn into an electricity-conducting metal. Nickel oxide is one of the ...

Apple scores huge win over Samsung in patent case

Aug 24, 2012 (AFP)

Apple won more than $1 billion in a massive US court victory over Samsung on Friday, in one of the biggest patent cases in decades -- a verdict that could have ...

One-molecule-thick material has big advantages

Aug 24, 2012 (SPX)

The discovery of graphene, a material just one atom thick and possessing exceptional strength and other novel properties, started an avalanche of research aroun...

Engineers achieve longstanding goal of stable nanocrystalline metals

Aug 24, 2012 (SPX)

Most metals - from the steel used to build bridges and skyscrapers to the copper and gold used to form wires in microchips - are made of crystals: orderly array...

Ames Laboratory scientists crack long-standing chemistry mystery

Aug 24, 2012 (SPX)

A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory has answered a key question concerning the widely-used Fenton reaction - important in w...

Northwestern scientists create chemical brain

Aug 24, 2012 (SPX)

Northwestern University scientists have connected 250 years of organic chemical knowledge into one giant computer network - a chemical Google on steroids. This ...