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Posted on January 30, 2013 at 07:06:49 pm
Scientists from the have created, for the first time, a new type of microchip which allows information to travel in three dimensions. Currently, microchips can only pass digital information in a very limited way
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 07:02:33 pm
Hydrogen has tremendous potential as an eco-friendly fuel, but it is expensive to produce. Now researchers at Princeton University and Rutgers University have moved a step closer to harnessing nature to produce hydrogen for us
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 09:37:46 am
Western babies are potty trained later these days and need diapers until an average of three years of age. But even infants can be potty trained.
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 09:33:54 am
With the latest discovery by scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), current cooling systems which uses refrigerant harmful to the ozone layer could be replaced by a revolutionary cooling system using lasers.
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 09:29:42 am
There is growing evidence for the lasting impact of alcohol on the brain. Excessive alcohol use accounts for 4% of the global burden of disease, and binge drinking particularly is becoming an increasing health issue
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 02:44:25 pm
Stanford Engineering's Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) has set a new record in computational science by successfully using a supercomputer with more than one million computing cores to solve a complex fluid dynamics problem
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 11:04:13 am
Detecting sexual selection in the fossil record is not impossible, according to scientists writing in Trends in Ecology and Evolution this month, co-authored by Dr Darren Naish of the University of Southampton
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 04:53:39 pm
Scientists at ASU are celebrating their recent success on the path to understanding what makes the fiber that spiders spin -- weight for weight -- at least five times as strong as piano wire
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 08:06:14 am
The connection between poor sleep, memory loss and brain deterioration as we grow older has been elusive
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 01:11:14 pm
Experts in Indological Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich are in the process of analyzing 2000-year-old Indian Buddhist documents that have only recently come to light. The precious manuscripts have already yielded some surprising
