Archive | April, 2008

High-Tech Glove To Help Soldiers In Combat

Posted on 28 April 2008

Many research companies were assigned or they just simply wanted to design equipment that is safer and easier to use and carry, but their results were unconvincing. MIT, the University of Toronto, and the Georgia Institute of Technology developed systems based on arm movements and using accelerometers, gyroscopes, and high-tech sensors but they “don’t work […]

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New-born Star Rising At About 100,000 Light-Years From The Galaxy’s Center

Posted on 26 April 2008

NASA released some images of a new-born star extending itself over 100,000 light years away from the center of the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy. The star was called M83 and the first image is from NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer and it pictures ultraviolet data.

The second image includes radio data from the National Science Foundation’s Very Large […]

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Photo Of Omega Centauri’s Stars Surrounding A Black Hole

Posted on 25 April 2008

Omega Centauri is one fascinating star cluster, that orbits our galaxy and with the help of Spitzer Space Telescope we are able to see in more details the stars that form it. We are even able to see which stars are old and which are young. By looking in the photo you can view the […]

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DARPA To Build A Weapon Inspired From A Novel

Posted on 25 April 2008

Arthur C. Clarke is a writer who brought up many great ideas that could become a reality and now DARPA will try to develop a weapon inspired from the 1955 Earthlight novel. The weapon that DARPA plans to build is based on the Stiletto which is “a solid bar of light” and with it you […]

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World’s Most Powerful Laser - Texas Petawatt

Posted on 24 April 2008

Researchers from University of Texas have developed a laser that can produce a power of more than one petawatt. This laser is based on the original petawatt laser which was built at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in Livermore, CA in 1999.
The Texas Petawatt Laser is the most powerful operating laser in the world and Todd […]

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MARSIS Studies The Underground Of Mars

Posted on 23 April 2008

Astronomers want to know everything about the planets in our solar system and one of the most interesting places is Mars. If they already can map the surface, it has been very hard to get information about the underground. There is one technology that can complete this task - it’s MARSIS, EPA’s Mars Express radar […]

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The First Nanomotor Controlled By Temperature Changes

Posted on 22 April 2008

Nanotechnology in combination with carbon can lead to many things but one of the most important items - carbon nanotubes. With the help of these carbon nanotubes, a team of researchers from the UAB Research Park managed to create the first nanomotor powered by temperature changes.
Thanks to this breakthrough, in the future the developers will […]

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Carbon Nanotubes Improve Life Of Li-ion Batteries

Posted on 22 April 2008

Lithium-ion batteries of the future will be much better than current technology thanks to a breakthrough that will increase their life. The lithium-ion batteries will be improved with the help of carbon nanotubes that will prevent them to lose their capacity of charge over time.
The researchers from the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, China, […]

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Kidney Extraction Through The Vagina - First In Europe, Second In The World

Posted on 21 April 2008

The medicine is advancing quickly and now doctors can perform operations without letting any visible scars most of the times. At the Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Europe, has been conducted the first in Europe and the second in the world, a kidney extraction through the vagina.
The kidney of the woman was affected by malignant tumour […]

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Music And Mathematics Are Related

Posted on 21 April 2008

For many centuries many scientists or musicians tried to find connections between music and mathematics, but they didn’t find any precise proof. Now, with the help of a breakthrough that Prof Dmitri Tymoczko from the Princeton University, discovered a couple of years ago, we know that there is a strong link between them.
Alongside Clifton Callender […]

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