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Leap Motion creates finger-happy gesture control (w/ Video)

(Phys.org) -- Developers and end users both have been indicating they are ready to start saying long goodbyes to mouse and keyboard. In this touchscreen generation of mobile users, the big stir among gadget ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 10 | with audio podcast report

New Yorkers bring fish farms to urban jungle

So you recycle, drive a small car, and try to eat organic. But what about running an eco-sustainable fish farm combined with a naturally fertilized vegetable patch in your kitchen?

Biology / Other

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4

The robot revolution is just beginning

When industrial robots were first introduced in the early 1960s — initially on automobile assembly lines — computers were still in their infancy, so the robots were designed to perform only the most ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

EPA to cut air pollution from natural gas 'fracking'

(HealthDay) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday issued the first national standards to curb air pollution linked with the controversial practice of "fracking."

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Making drinking water clean: Economist offers insights on how to purify global supplies

The permanent way to prevent diarrhea from killing an average of 4,000 children a day worldwide would be for governments to step in and provide safe, clean water for their people to drink. But that prospect ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Magnetic testing process helps ensure reliability of microelectronic devices

(Phys.org) -- Taking advantage of the force generated by magnetic repulsion, researchers have developed a new technique for measuring the adhesion strength between thin films of materials used in microelectronic ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Exciting new field of bioorthogonal chemistry owes a debt to curiosity-driven research from previous eras

“Bioorthogonal chemistry is literally chemistry for life,” said Carolyn Bertozzi, an internationally acclaimed leader and founder of this emerging and highly promising field of science that could ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists discover initial stages by which gypsum crystals form

Gypsum is a naturally occurring mineral which is often used in industrial processes and which in nature, if left alone for thousands of years, can grow into huge translucent, towering and eerie, crystals more ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A computer screen you can fold

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Toronto researchers have discovered a better way to make flat-panel displays that could one day lead to computer screens you roll up like a newspaper and wallpaper that lights ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Getting to the moon on drops of fuel: An ionic motor for small satellites

The first prototype of a new, ultra-compact motor that will allow small satellites to journey beyond Earth's orbit is just making its way out of the EPFL laboratories where it was built. The goal of the micro motor: to drastically ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Study finds room to store CO2 underground

A new study by researchers at MIT shows that there is enough capacity in deep saline aquifers in the United States to store at least a century's worth of carbon dioxide emissions from the nation's coal-fired ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (8) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

New catalyst for safe, reversible hydrogen storage

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new catalyst that reversibly converts hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide to a liquid under very mild conditions. ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 34 | with audio podcast

Authorities: Hackers busted when 1 turns informant (Update 2)

The shadowy underworld of Internet hackers was rocked Tuesday by news that one of the world's most-wanted and most-feared computer vandals has been an FBI informant for months and helped authorities build a case against five ...

Technology / Internet

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Oil versus fish in idyllic Norwegian islands

Looking for oil outside your front door may sound exciting, but in the idyllic Arctic archipelago of Lofoten, one of Norway's best fishing areas, the prospect of the black gold has sparked heated debate.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fear factor isn't enough: Ads have to gross you out to work best

(PhysOrg.com) -- We've all seen the ads meant to scare us into buying products like protective sunscreen or to avoid doing something like drugs. Well, it turns out those advertisements may only freeze us with fear and inaction. ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0