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Researchers have spent three decades trying to solve the riddle of HIV, an endeavor that infectious disease expert David Margolis calls “as difficult as inventing a warp drive to travel to other s...
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Researchers have spent three decades trying to solve the riddle of HIV, an endeavor that infectious disease expert David Margolis calls “as difficult as inventing a warp drive to travel to other s...
One in six mobile phones in Britain is contaminated with faecal matter, ScienceDaily reported on Saturday. According to new research released ahead of Global Handwashing Day, the most likely reaso...
Although HTML5 won’t be completed and fully standardized until 2014, the digital industry has been paving the way for it over the past couple years. HTML5 is the newest ...
Researchers in Singapore have created a 'highly efficient', 'cheaper' solar cell that they hope will halve the cost of solar energy, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) said on ...
Car Accident SideKick App: Free California personal injury law firm, Bisnar Chase created the Car Accident SideKick app for the iPhone to assist drivers after an accident. Before we talk abo...
July 8, 2010 -- A solar-powered aircraft made history on Thursday after flying around the clock on the sun's energy alone, bringing a step closer the dream of perpetual flight. After 26 hours i...
SINGAPORE, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- A Singapore start-up firm has devised an innovative application to allow phone users to have access to their positioning information within buildings, where traditi...
Most people need a few cups of coffee or a couple of shots of espresso to rev their engines in the morning. Now a team of British engineers have taken this concept quite literally. Not o...
Smart eyewear for keen swimmers The lap times appear on the goggle lens Smart goggles that help swimmers log lengths have been designed by a UK...
Keyport Slide: $39.00 Keys aren’t really that controversial, we need them, they work, what else is there to improve upon? It turns out, there’s a lot that can be done. Enter Keyport Sl...
Timberland Men’s Radler Trail Camp: $65.00 Going on outdoor excursions can pose a problem when it comes to packing, gear can take up lots of space in a pack, leaving little roo...
ScienceDaily (Sep. 14, 2011) — Scientists have long debated about the impact on global climate of water evaporated from vegetation. New research from Carnegie's Global Ecology department concludes...
Floating Bed: $1,686,800 It’s 2011 and nothing in our world resembles what past generations thought the future would look like, no Jetson-like hover crafts or robots that clean and talk back....
MonoTracer MT e150: $100,000 The first cabin motorcycle, EcoMobile, debuted in 1982. Hmm, let's see ... what else debuted that very same year? Perhaps a certain video game-oriented science fict...
(Nanowerk News) Chemists at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences have developed the world's first single molecule electric motor, a development that may potentially create a new class of d...
Bicycle abuse isn’t something you’d expect from the Dutch. But engineers in the Netherlands who love bikes enough to hurt them are challenging long-held beliefs about how a moving bike keeps ...
Bracketron Universal Bike Mount: $39.95 Part of the fun of bombing down a trail is knowing it's just you (ideally sporting some protective equipment), taking on whatever comes your way. Bu...
"If I ever find forever, I will share it with you," sings Tim Fite on his song, "Forever". Well, in the quest for data storage superiority, a group of scientists from the University of South...
A 'Diamond' Bigger than Earth Discovered Orbiting a Pulsar A once-massive star that's been transformed into a planet five times the size of Earth made of diamond. The pulsar and its planet are...
What’s the News: We’ve all fantasized about a cell phone battery that won’t quit. Now scientists hoping to harness the power generated when you walk are developing a device that might event...
(Reuters) - Scientists have found Earth's oldest fossils in Australia and say their microscopic discovery is convincing evidence that cells and bacteria were able to thrive in an oxygen-free wo...
WASHINGTON: US computer giant IBM announced on Thursday that it has developed prototypes of computer chips that mimic the way the human brain works. The Armon...
Being an astronomer in the year 2030 will be notably different than it is today. Yes, scientists will still be pondering, among other mysteries, the evolving universe, life on other worlds, ...
Above: A sample of the polarizing organic photovoltaic film. It's always a bummer when your phone starts to lose power and you aren't near an outlet. But some folks at UCLA might have that prob...
We’re going to step into the middle of a nifty science and engineering controversy. Today. On Engineering Works! Listen to the podcast. Is it possible to travel at seven-hundred-millio...
A journey from Earth to Mars could in the future take just 39 days -- cutting current travel time nearly six times -- according to a rocket scientist who has the ear of the U.S. space agency. Fran...