(AP) -- Samsung Electronics Co., the largest maker of cell phones for the U.S. market, on Sunday revealed the first phone running Samsung's own "smart" software system, bada.
Consumer & Gadgets
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The Air Force says a high-powered laser has destroyed a missile in flight during a test of a national defense system off the California coast.
Engineering
Feb 14, 2010
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Waters from warmer latitudes -- or subtropical waters -- are reaching Greenland's glaciers, driving melting and likely triggering an acceleration of ice loss, reports a team of researchers led by Fiamma Straneo, a physical ...
Earth Sciences
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Palladium atoms placed on a carbon base spontaneously formed into an 8 nanometer heart at the University of Birmingham’s Nanoscale Physics Research Laboratory this week. Just in time for Valentine’s Day! ...
By creating diamond-based nanowire devices, a team at Harvard has taken another step towards making applications based on quantum science and technology possible.
Nanophysics
Feb 14, 2010
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Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed a revolutionary way of capturing a high-resolution still image alongside very high-speed video - a new technology that is attractive for science, industry and consumer ...
Engineering
Feb 14, 2010
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Biologists at UC San Diego have identified the specific region in vertebrates where adult blood stem cells arise during embryonic development.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 14, 2010
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While many of us enjoyed constructing little houses out of toy bricks when we were kids, this task is much more difficult if bricks are elementary particles. It is even harder if these are particles of light - photons, which ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 14, 2010
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Drugs that target the way cells convert nutrients into energy could offer new approaches to treating a range of conditions including heart attack and stroke. Using a new way to screen for potential drugs, a team led by Massachusetts ...
Biotechnology
Feb 14, 2010
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Superfluid mixtures of atoms can boil and freeze at ultra-low temperatures. This freezing can result in the formation of supersolids of atoms that can flow alongside each other without friction, but are still set in a fixed ...
General Physics
Feb 14, 2010
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