 Electronic tattoo display runs on blood February 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 374 vote(s)
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Jim Mielke's wireless blood-fueled display is a true merging of technology and body art. At the recent Greener Gadgets Design Competition, the engineer demonstrated a subcutaneously implanted touch-screen ... | |
 New process generates hydrogen from aluminum alloy to run engines, fuel cells May 16, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 598 vote(s)
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A Purdue University engineer has developed a method that uses an aluminum alloy to extract hydrogen from water for running fuel cells or internal combustion engines, and the technique could be used to replace ... | |
Discovery supports theory of Alzheimer's disease as form of diabetes September 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 252 vote(s)
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Insulin, it turns out, may be as important for the mind as it is for the body. Research in the last few years has raised the possibility that Alzheimer’s memory loss could be due to a novel third form of diabetes. | |
 Water forms floating 'bridge' when exposed to high voltage September 28, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 645 vote(s)
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While it's one of the most important and abundant chemical compounds on Earth, water is still a puzzle to scientists. Much research has been done to uncover the structure of water beyond the H2O ... | |
 Traffic jam mystery solved by mathematicians December 19, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 355 vote(s)
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Mathematicians from the University of Exeter have solved the mystery of traffic jams by developing a model to show how major delays occur on our roads, with no apparent cause. Many traffic jams leave drivers ... | |
 Why a hydrogen economy doesn't make sense December 11, 2006 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 379 vote(s)
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In a recent study, fuel cell expert Ulf Bossel explains that a hydrogen economy is a wasteful economy. The large amount of energy required to isolate hydrogen from natural compounds (water, natural gas, biomass), ... | |
 Mathematician suggests extra dimensions are time-like April 17, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 533 vote(s)
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In a recent study, mathematician George Sparling of the University of Pittsburgh examines a fundamental question pondered since the time of Pythagoras, and still vexing scientists today: what is the nature ... | |
 First Ever World Map of Happiness Produced July 28, 2006 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 287 vote(s)
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A University of Leicester psychologist has produced the first ever 'world map of happiness.' | |
 Light's Most Exotic Trick Yet: So Fast it Goes ... Backwards? May 11, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 344 vote(s)
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In the past few years, scientists have found ways to make light go both faster and slower than its usual speed limit, but now researchers at the University of Rochester have published a paper today in Science ... | |
 'Mach c'? Scientists observe sound traveling faster than the speed of light January 17, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 191 vote(s)
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For the first time, scientists have experimentally demonstrated that sound pulses can travel at velocities faster than the speed of light, c. William Robertson’s team from Middle Tennessee State University ... | |
Plain soap as effective as antibacterial but without the risk August 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 137 vote(s)
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Antibacterial soaps show no health benefits over plain soaps and, in fact, may render some common antibiotics less effective, says a University of Michigan public health professor. | |
 Physics Reveals the Key to a Great Golf Swing December 18, 2006 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 72 vote(s)
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What happens when a golf-loving researcher injures a shoulder and can't play for three months? Rod White, a metrologist (measurement scientist), used the spare time off the course to undertake an analysis that ... | |
 Reading Shakespeare has dramatic effect on human brain December 18, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 70 vote(s)
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Research at the University of Liverpool has found that Shakespearean language excites positive brain activity, adding further drama to the bard's plays and poetry. | |
 German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures: paper April 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 315 vote(s)
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A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated. | |
Study: Curvy hips lure men to smart women November 12, 2007 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 79 vote(s)
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Women with small waists and big hips also have big IQs, a new U.S. study has found. | |
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