 World's smallest helicopter to fly in da Vinci birthplace May 14, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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The world's smallest one-man helicopter will soon take flight in the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci, who is credited with having first thought of a vertical-flight machine, its developer said. | |
 Nanowires may boost solar cell efficiency, engineers say May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 41 vote(s)
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University of California, San Diego electrical engineers have created experimental solar cells spiked with nanowires that could lead to highly efficient thin-film solar cells of the future. | |
 New top-of-the-line BlackBerry doubles screen resolution May 12, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Research In Motion Ltd. on Monday is introducing its first major new BlackBerry model in more than a year: the Bold, ... | |
 MIT students show power of open cell phone systems May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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(AP) -- What do you want your cell phone to be able to do? Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Hal Abelson put that question to about 20 computer science students this semester when he gave them ... | |
New efficiency record for solar cells May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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Physicist Bram Hoex and colleagues at Eindhoven University of Technology, together with the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, have improved the efficiency of an important type of solar cell from 21.9 to 23.2 percent (a relative ... | |
 A Smarter Way to Grow Graphene May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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Graphene, a sheet of carbon just one atom thick, has many potential uses in the electronics industry, but producing these ideal two-dimensional carbon sheets is very difficult and, as a result, their use has ... | |
Middle class relaxing with marijuana May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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A variety of middle-class people are making a conscious but careful choice to use marijuana to enhance their leisure activities, a University of Alberta study shows. | |
Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens May 13, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday. | |
 Held together by metal-metal bonds: a large ring containing 36 gold atoms May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Chinese researchers have recently made a “golden crown” with a diameter of only a few nanometers. It is a large ring-shaped molecule containing 36 gold atoms. The lords of the ring, a team of researchers from ... | |
9-year-old girl's twin is found inside her stomach May 15, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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(AP) -- A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday. | |
 Crystal (eye) ball: Study says visual system equipped with 'future seeing powers' May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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Catching a football. Maneuvering through a room full of people. Jumping out of the way when a golfer yells "fore." Most would agree these seemingly simple actions require us to perceive and quickly respond ... | |
 Nissan to make lithium-ion batteries with NEC: report May 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Nissan Motor Co and NEC Corp will join forces in the world's first mass production of lithium-ion batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles, a newspaper said Saturday. | |
MIT Creates New Material For Fuel Cells, Increases Power Output By 50 Percent May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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MIT engineers have improved the power output of one type of fuel cell by more than 50 percent through technology that could help these environmentally friendly energy storage devices find a much broader market, particularly ... | |
Scientists are building database of bite marks May 14, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- It has sent innocent men to death row, given defense attorneys fits and splintered the scientific community. For a decade now, attorneys and even some forensic experts have ridiculed the use of bite marks to identify ... | |
 Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(AP) -- In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out ... | |
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