A Romanian inventor who claimed he beat the Americans to make the world's first jetpack and went on to design and build dozens of vehicles, calling the modern-day car "a disgrace," has died aged 81.
Other
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In a result that surprised researchers, a new study found that employees who had hostile bosses were better off on several measures if they returned the hostility.
Social Sciences
Jan 20, 2015
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Researchers have developed a new, non-invasive procedure to detect the severity of an allergic reaction to amoxicillin. The new biosensor platform is based on gold nanodisks, is very sensitive and works label-free, detecting ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 20, 2015
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A radar absorbent material (RAM) that can operate over a broad range of frequencies and incident angles, is simple to manufacture, low cost, robust, and thin enough for conformal applications like aircraft cloaking has been ...
Engineering
Jan 20, 2015
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Living systems have the ability to produce collective molecular motions that have an effect at the macroscale, such as a muscle that contracts via the concerted action of protein motors. In order to reproduce this phenomenon, ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 20, 2015
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NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft discovered and characterized 40 near-Earth objects (NEOs) in the first year after the mission was re-started in December 2013. Eight of the discoveries ...
Space Exploration
Jan 20, 2015
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From the beginning of time, uranium has been part of the Earth and, thanks to its long-lived radioactivity, it has proven ideal to date geological processes and deduce Earth's evolution. Natural uranium consists of two long-lived ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 20, 2015
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Teachers feel under pressure to change their accents to be understood in the classroom, according to a study carried out at The University of Manchester.
Social Sciences
Jan 20, 2015
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Nintendo is discontinuing its Club Nintendo rewards program and will replace it in the U.S. with a new customer loyalty program at a later date.
Business
Jan 20, 2015
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A plane with the top speed of a homing pigeon is set to embark on a landmark round-the-world flight using nothing but the sun's energy to power it, organisers said Tuesday.
Energy & Green Tech
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