Light bulb moment: Low-energy LED wins Nobel prize
(Reuters) – An American and two Japanese scientists won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for inventing a new energy-efficient and environment-friendly light...
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Mission Accomplished: India Joins Mars Explorers
NEW DELHI (AP) — India triumphed in its first interplanetary mission, placing a satellite into orbit around Mars on Wednesday and catapulting the country into...
NASA’s Maven spacecraft enters Mars orbit
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Maven spacecraft entered orbit around Mars for an unprecedented study of the red planet’s atmosphere following a 442 million-mile...
Physicists Make Big Leap In Quantum Teleportation
Physicists in Switzerland said Sunday they had succeeded in teleporting the quantum state of a photon to a crystal, in which information transited from light...
Banana peel study, ugly art research win Ig Nobel spoof awards
By Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) – Researchers who measured the slipperiness of banana peels, the ability of pork strips to stop nosebleeds, and the reactions...
Radical New DNA Sequencer Finally Gets into Researchers’ Hands
A DNA sequencer the size of a cell phone could change where, and how, gene research occurs. One day in 1989, biophysicist David Deamer pulled...
Motorized Pants to Help Soldiers and Stroke Victims
A soft, lightweight exoskeleton developed at Harvard applies assistive force without interfering with a person’s normal gait. A soft exoskeleton being developed by researchers at...
A Super-Strong and Lightweight New Material
Nanostructured ceramics could be used to build lighter, stronger airplanes and batteries. A new type of material, made up of nanoscale struts crisscrossed like the...
Google Launches Effort to Build Its Own Quantum Computer
Google’s crack at a quantum computer is a bid to change computing forever. Google is about to begin designing and building hardware for a quantum...
GN Resound pins hopes on hearing aid for iPhone generation
(Reuters) – Denmark’s GN Resound is banking on a hearing aid packed with bluetooth-like technology that lets users listen to calls and music from their...