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Hawaii lab turns laser-powered bubbles into microrobots

(Phys.org) -- A team of scientists from the University of Hawaii are working on microrobots created from bubbles of air in a saline solution. The bubbles take on their title of “robots” as a laser ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast weblog

EV battery swaps intended for long hauls

Ever driven through a car wash? Going through a Better Place battery-switching station is like that - minus the soap suds, of course.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Inside a mathematical proof lies literature, says Stanford's Reviel Netz

Like novelists, mathematicians are creative authors. With diagrams, symbolism, metaphor, double entendre and elements of surprise, a good proof reads like a good story.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Biofuel tree project discovers Indigenous partners

University of Queensland researchers have planted five hectares of Pongamia trees at Hope Vale, north Queensland in a bid to create a commercially viable plantation for sustainable regional development and ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Research team uses nanoparticles to make paper waterproof and magnetic

(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa, led by Roberto Cingolani, have devised a means for connecting cellulose fibers in ordinary paper with nanoparticles resulting in new desired properties, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

First description of a triple DNA helix in a vacuum

A team of researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) have managed for the first time to extract trustworthy structural information ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

UM invention helps advance reliability of alternative energy

A University of Minnesota invention could help make storage of solar and wind energy more efficient and economical. The invention was licensed to SustainX, a leading global developer of grid-scale energy storage solutions ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Sony moves industry toward the creation of new mass-storage optical disc archive solutions

Sony Corporation today announced that it will be commercializing a next-generation optical disc archive storage system. Sony will also organize an Optical Disc Archive Advisory Group to promote the adoption ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Safer way to make diazomethane developed

(PhysOrg.com) -- Diazomethane is a toxic, explosive reagent prepared as needed in laboratories, where it is commonly used in cyclopropanation, but its explosive nature prevents it being used widely on an industrial ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Empowered citizens or hopeful bystanders?

The new political appetite for 'localism' in town planning has triggered anxiety within local communities and amongst those charged with making it work, according to new research funded by the Economic and Social Research ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Graphene battery demonstrated to power an LED

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Hong Kong have reported, in ArXiv, their experiments to make a graphene battery that they say generates an electrical current by drawing on the ambient thermal energy in the sol ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (25) | comments 24 | with audio podcast report

PayPal to expand in Asia after mobile app launch

PayPal Asia-Pacific chief Rupert Keeley said Friday the US company plans to expand in the region over the next 12 to 18 months, after it launched the region's first payments service for smartphones. ...

Technology / Business

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Technical row over 'F-duct' Formula One wing

Red Bull chief Christian Horner Friday said Formula One teams would be forced to copy Mercedes' new rear wing design after it was cleared by officials in the year's first technical controversy.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The annihilating effects of space travel

Long distance space travel could create the ultimate 'killer entrance', devastating your destination and anything around the arriving spacecraft, according to calculations by Professor Geraint Lewis and two ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (24) | comments 34 | with audio podcast

Stanford experts say Silicon Valley is poised to play a key role as Japan restructures its power industry

As cities and towns rebuild after last year's devastating tsunami and earthquake in northeastern Japan, there is a potentially huge demand for the green technology and new information technology now being ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1