Technology - general
Cloned meat in market raises concerns in UK
05 Aug 2010
Tata Chem's low-cost water purifier in WSJ's best Asian innovations shortlist
By By Dhara Tripathi | 30 Jul 2010
Destruction of key compound of ozone detected
29 Jul 2010
For the first time, scientists successfully measure ClOOCl (a chlorine compound that affects ozone depletion) levels in the ozone layer
Metabolic disease: researchers find cause and possible cure
16 Jul 2010
An international team of scientists has discovered the gene mutation responsible for a condition in which eye and brain development is severely disrupted in affected infants
Solar powered plane completes night long flight over Switzerland
10 Jul 2010
The Solar Impulse cruised at a height of 28,000 feet and a top speed of 78 mph, in a night long flight, in what, according to project coordinators was the longest test flight of a piloted, solar-powered aircraft
Model helps search for moon dust fountains
By Bill Steigerwald, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 18 Jun 2010
BP uses Kevin Costner’s centrifuge machines to clean oil spill
16 Jun 2010
After seeing the effects of the Valdez spill in Alaska on TV, Costner put in $24 million of his money in 1995 to fund a team of scientists, including his brother Dan Costner, to develop a technology that could deal with huge oil spills
Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa returns from seven-year odyssey
14 Jun 2010
The mission nevertheless has proved enlightening as the spacecraft has shown that the 535-metre asteroid is not a solid body, but rather a lump of rubble resulting from an earlier asteroid collision
Nearby black hole is feeble and unpredictable
09 Jun 2010
Brown chemists report promising advance in fuel-cell technology
08 Jun 2010
A nanoparticle with a palladium core and an iron-platinum shell outperforms commercially available pure-platinum catalysts and lasts longer — a promising advance in fuel-cell technology, developed by chemists at Brown University
Brown chemists report promising advance in fuel-cell technology
08 Jun 2010
A nanoparticle with a palladium core and an iron-platinum shell outperforms commercially available pure-platinum catalysts and lasts longer — a promising advance in fuel-cell technology, developed by chemists at Brown University
Brown chemists report promising advance in fuel-cell technology
08 Jun 2010
A nanoparticle with a palladium core and an iron-platinum shell outperforms commercially available pure-platinum catalysts and lasts longer — a promising advance in fuel-cell technology, developed by chemists at Brown University
STEREO, SOHO spacecraft catch comet diving into sun
By By Robert Sanders, Media Relations, University of California, Berkeley | 26 May 2010
US scientists create synthetic living cell
21 May 2010
New microscopy technique reveals mechanics of blood cell membranes
21 May 2010
Thanks to an interdisciplinary team of researchers, scientists now have a more complete understanding of one of the human body’s most vital structures: the red blood cell.
Lessons from the brain: toward an intelligent molecular computer
20 May 2010
A team of researchers from Japan and Michigan Technological University has built a molecular computer using lessons learned from the human brain.