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Nano breakthrough could spell superior electronics

January 11th, 2010 - 5:42 pm ICT by IANS -
Washington, Jan 11 (IANS) Scientists have created a multitude of nano-scale materials, but they are practically useless, unless slotted precisely in the architecture of proposed devices, until now. Jen Cha, University of California ...

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How rays use their sensory abilities to hunt for prey

December 27th, 2009 - 12:36 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, December 27 (ANI): In a new research, a team of scientists explored the sensory abilities of rays in order to find how the marine animals scout for food on the seafloor, ...

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Twitter crosses the 5 billion tweet mark

Twitter crosses the 5 billion tweet mark

October 20th, 2009 - 10:01 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt -
San Francisco, Oct 20 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The social networking and micro blogging site Twitter has crossed the 5 billion-tweet mark.Twitter has had it 5 billionth tweet, according to GigaTweet.com which measure's ...

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You can generate electricity from a tree

September 9th, 2009 - 1:16 pm ICT by IANS -
Washington, Sep 9 (IANS) There's enough power in trees to run an electronic circuit, says a new study. A study last year led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found that plants ...

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Faster, more energy efficient electronics comes closer to reality

June 21st, 2009 - 11:42 am ICT by ANI -
Washington, June 21 (ANI): You may see smaller, faster, more powerful, and less energy consuming electronic devices emerge in future, thanks to a new discovery by researchers at the Department of Energy's ...

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Revolutionary finding to pave way for smaller, faster and powerful electronics

June 18th, 2009 - 2:53 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, June 18 (ANI): Electronic devices that will be more efficient and consume less energy than those present today may be just round the corner-all thanks to a breakthrough discovery by researchers ...

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New nanocrystal shows potential for cheaper and more versatile lasers

May 11th, 2009 - 2:05 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, May 11 (ANI): Scientists at the University of Rochester, along with researchers at the Eastman Kodak Company, have created a nanocrystal that constantly emits light, which has potential for the development ...

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World’s fastest camera can capture 6 million snaps in a second

April 30th, 2009 - 12:58 pm ICT by ANI -
London, April 30 (ANI): Scientists have demonstrated the fastest imaging system ever devised, a camera that snaps images less than a half a billionth of a second long, capturing over six million ...

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Improved microscopy to help more effective drug delivery

February 9th, 2009 - 2:57 pm ICT by IANS -
Sydney, Feb 9 (IANS) Improved microscopy for precisely measuring shapes and sizes of proteins could help scientists create new drugs that are a better match for the proteins they target. The new ...

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Scientists predict what a nano drug will do to a breast cancer

February 9th, 2009 - 2:38 pm ICT by IANS -
Washington, Feb 9 (IANS) Scientists successfully predicted the outcome of a nano drug on breast tumours in a pre-clinical study. Their research could help determine which patients will respond best to cancer-fighting ...

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Quantum technologies move a step closer with demonstration of ”entanglement” filter

January 25th, 2009 - 12:30 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington , Jan 25 (ANI): A team of physicists and engineers has demonstrated an ''entanglement'' filter, an optical device that filters two particles of light (or photons) based on the correlations ...

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Scientists to create artificial sun on Earth

December 28th, 2008 - 3:35 pm ICT by ANI -
London, Dec 28 (ANI): Scientists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore are attempting to create an artificial sun on Earth an achievement that will provide answer to the worlds ...

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Novel method to protect teeth from cavities

December 21st, 2008 - 1:11 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, Dec 21 (ANI): Researchers at Clarkson University Centre for Advanced Materials Processing have found a novel method of protecting teeth from cavities by ultrafine polishing with silica nanoparticles. Professor Igor ...

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Scientists weigh elusive gold atom with nanoscale

July 30th, 2008 - 6:15 pm ICT by IANS -
Washington, July 30 (IANS) Weighing a single golden atom is now possible, thanks to a nanoscale devised by Berkeley Lab and California University researchers. Alex Zettl, a physicist with Berkeley Lab, who ...

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Scientists generate shortest-ever flash of light; just 80 attoseconds long

June 20th, 2008 - 1:08 pm ICT by ANI -
London, June 20 (ANI): Experts at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany have devised a way to generate the shortest-ever flash of light, that is, just 80 attoseconds ...

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Nanotechnology: science of small with huge opportunities

March 24th, 2008 - 2:50 pm ICT by admin -
Chennai, March 24 (IANS) In future we may never have to wash our shirts, thanks to nanotechnology, and we may have nano-shoes that can absorb the shock of an exploding nuclear device. ...

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Indian-origin researcher makes tiny brain-like computer

March 12th, 2008 - 1:21 pm ICT by admin -
Washington, March 12 (ANI): A team of experts led by an Indian-origin researcher in Japan has designed a tiny computer that mimics how the brain works. Dr. Arindam Bandyopadhyay, an artificial intelligence ...

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Scientists develop mother of all laser beams

February 19th, 2008 - 3:31 pm ICT by admin -
New York, Feb 19 (IANS) Scientists have developed the mother of all laser beams - one that has focussed power equal to all the sunlight heading earth's way. Researchers at the University ...

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Scientists develop mother of all laser beams

February 19th, 2008 - 3:20 pm ICT by admin -
New York, Feb 19 (IANS) Scientists have developed the mother of all laser beams - one that has focussed power equal to all the sunlight heading earth's way. Researchers at the University ...

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Most intense laser beam in the universe created

February 16th, 2008 - 1:41 pm ICT by admin -
Washington, February 16 (ANI): Scientists at the University of Michigan say that they have devised a way to produce a laser beam about as intense as a concentrated ray of the entire ...

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Exploding black holes could lead to discovery of extra dimensions (Re-issue)

February 3rd, 2008 - 10:58 am ICT by admin -
London, Feb 3 (ANI): A group of radio astronomers have begun looking for signals from small, exploding black holes, which if found, could provide the best evidence yet for extra dimensions beyond ...

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Exploding black holes could lead to discovery of extra dimensions

February 2nd, 2008 - 4:57 pm ICT by admin -
London, Feb 2 (ANI): A group of radio astronomers have begun looking for signals from small, exploding black holes, which if found, could provide the best evidence yet for extra dimensions beyond ...

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