Thursday, June 12th, 2008
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The United States continues to be the leading source of newly patented inventions compared with the EU and Asia.
Despite the growing belief that it has lost its edge, the U.S. is still the 800-pound gorilla in science and technology worldwide, according to a new RAND Corporation report.
The United States accounts ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
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Ranchers have used GPS technology to monitor cattle movements and location for years, but Daniela Rus, an MIT scientist and 2002 MacArthur Fellow, has set the stage for a revolution in animal husbandry by designing a new device similar to a headset that "whispers" wireless commands to cows (and potentially ...
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Sunday, June 8th, 2008
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The world needs to invest a whopping $45 trillion in clean technology to cut carbon emissions in half by 2050, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. In the absence of these investments, carbon emissions will climb 130% over that period while oil consumption will rise by ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
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A new X-ray beams light-rays 1,000 times brighter and a 1,000 times faster-a single pulse is one ten-thousandth of a billionth of a second-than the most powerful X-ray available today.
"We will have X-ray vision at the nano-scale," Joel D. Brock, a professor of applied and engineering physics at Cornell ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
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Hydrogen gas stations might not be relegated to the dustbin of bad ideas after all.
A new-class of materials developed by researchers at Savannah River National Laboratory and revealed for the first time in an article published in the June issue of The Bulletin, might hold the key to making ...
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