Anti-Gravity Platform

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This is one of the things that make you feel like you’re in a science fiction movie. In fact there is nothing magical or unbelievable but it makes a great effect. It is based on magnetic levitation of a magnet placed above another one. Power supply comes to the base platform.                        more...

MOBILE TECHNOLOGY AND CLINICAL SCIENCE

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New York Times article recently listed some mobile IT tools which are clinically inclined, this includes a small blood glucose meter that can be plugged into iPhone and iPod Touch, a blood pressure hand cuff attached to the smartphone, and a mobile app that reminds patients to take their medications. These strong mobile tools are supported by clinical research.             more...

NASA’s New Telescope Will Illuminate Black Holes

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The space is a dark and mysterious thing. Sometimes the latest telescopes fails to bring the mysterious and dark side of the space into light. But with the NASA's new space telescope, the mysterious and dark side of the space; specially the mystery of the black holes can be brought easily into light.                  more...

Turning an infrared laser into an X-ray source

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Probing the deep structure of atoms, molecules, and solids often requires X-rays. The energies and wavelengths of X-ray light are ideal for examining electronic spin properties, chemical details, and interactions, where no other type of light can reach. For this reason, there is a lot of interest in developing X-ray lasers.           more...

Colder winters may be new normal due to melting Arctic ice

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In early 2011, the US and Europe froze, even as Greenland and Alaska experienced unusual periods of warmth. This year, the US and Europe were baking as the winter drew to an end, even as cold air hovered over Central Europe and Asia.             more...

Why SolarCity Is Succeeding in a Difficult Solar Industry

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After a steady stream of bankruptcies, poor earnings reports, and canceled IPOs for clean-energy companies, this week SolarCity bucked that trend by announcing that it had filed the necessary paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an IPO.        more...

The World’s Largest Solar Thermal Power Plant

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The outlines of a massive solar thermal power plant—the largest ever—are starting to appear in the wilderness outside of Las Vegas. The $2.2 billion project, which is being built by Oakland, California-based BrightSource, stretches over 3,600 acres near Ivanpah, California. When it’s finished, it will generate 370 megawatts of electricity on sunny days.     more...

The World’s Lightest Material : Micro-Lattice

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Researchers have created a new metallic material that they claim is the world's lightest solid material. With a density of just 0.9 mg/cm3 the material is around 100 times lighter than Styrofoam and lighter than the "multiwalled carbon nanotube (MCNT) aerogel" - also dubbed "frozen smoke" - with a density of 4 mg/cm3 that we looked at earlier this year. Despite being 99.99 percent open volume, the new material boasts impressive strength and energy absorption, making it potentially useful for a range of applications.               more...

The end of the Hubble Space Telescope

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The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, is quickly approaching the end of its life. The telescope that has allowed for amazing insight into the universe is expected to stop functioning in 2014. Unfortunately due to the retirement of the space shuttle this incredible creation will meet an inelegant demise.      more...

X-ray laser reaches 3.6 million degrees

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The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have a powerful laser capable of reaching extraordinary temperatures. When they fired their high powered x-ray laser at a sample of aluminum it generated temperatures of 3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit, that’s almost twice as hot as the Sun’s corona and over 300 times hotter than the surface of the Sun.      more...

Wirelessly powered medical implant propels itself through the bloodstream

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With the wait still on for a miniaturization ray to allow some Fantastic Voyage-style medical procedures by doctors in submarines, tiny electronic implants capable of traveling in the bloodstream show much more promise. While the miniaturization of electronic and mechanical components now makes such devices feasible, the lack of a comparable reduction in battery size has held things back.   more...

Solar panels thinner than a human hair

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A big issue with solar panels is the weight. Due to the size and weight of solar panels it is difficult to find places to mount them, and since you need a lot of panels to produce a significant amount of energy, it makes them very inefficient.      more...

How many spacecraft landed to Mars?

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Mars is the Solar system’s fourth planet. There was a common belief that Mars has liquid water before first flyby happened in 1965. But after first flies over Mars, people believed there’s no water. Then in 2005, radar caught water on Mars surface. Lastly The Phoenix lander sampled water on the Mars surface. There are lots of Mars missions since 1969. How many spacecraft landed to Mars?  more...

How many things Thomas Edison invented?

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Thomas Edison is one of the biggest inventors in world history. The things he invented are the main stone of modern world now. Main inventory category of Edison is mass communication and also she invented for electric category. He always loved the teamwork and it’s accepting that first serious modern research laboratory is invented by him. He’s now one of the most patent owned men in the history. How many things Thomas Edison invented?  more...

Solar power to the rescue: life, water after disasters

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Solar power technology could be a lifesaver in the aftermath of the next major disaster (or zombie apocalypse) and sustain life in remotes areas of the world thanks to the entrepreneurship of a California start-up.
After five years of R&D, San Francisco start-up Green Horizon has begun shipping a portable, self-sufficient emergency response system called the CSU (Central Service Unit). The CSU operates without any supporting infrastructure, providing communications, water, and power.
While the genesis of the CSU was disaster relief, the company believes there are also markets for NGOs, mining material exploration, fuel exploration, and military uses.  more...

Is this really the golden age for inventors?

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The Investors Association of Manhattan meets on the second Monday of each month in the conference room of a Times Square law firm. The New York Times’ Adam Davidson attended a recent meeting to explore the question: are we really living in a golden age of the independent inventor?
Ron Reardon, a patent agent who was a guest speaker that evening explained that the odds of making money “aren’t good — 1 in 100, 1 in 1000, I’m not sure — but they are better than the lottery.”  more...

Hypercorrection helps people learn from their mistakes

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Have you ever been embarrassed about finding out that something you truly believed was right turned out to be wrong? Don’t worry.
New research using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) shows that people who strongly hold false convictions actually have a better chance of retaining the right information when corrected. This is known as the hypercorrection effect.
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How a Nuclear Bomb Could Save Earth From an Asteroid

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A well-placed nuclear explosion could actually save humanity from a big asteroid hurtling toward Earth, just like in the movies, a new study suggests.Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a United States Department of Energy facility in New Mexico, used a supercomputer to model nukes' anti-asteroid effectiveness. more...

New generation bionics - wireless and touch-sensitive

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A new generation of bionics which can connect wirelessly with the nervous system and feel are under development.Animal tests have already been conducted in which devices are implanted directly into the nerve to process and transmit signals wirelessly to an external device.more...

Breakthrough in Quick & Cheap DNA Sequencing

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In the march toward inexpensive DNA sequencing, so-called “nanopore sequencing” has shown itself to be a promising technology.

However, there has been one major drawback with the nanopore solution: The weakness of the signals generated from the nanopores when the DNA passes through them. To compensate for this, researchers have mainly tried to slow the DNA as it moves through the nanopores.more...