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Oh, brother: plants can recognise their siblings
24 Mar 2014
Plants may not have eyes and ears, but they can recognize their siblings — other plants grown from seeds from the same mother plant
Phone record surveillance yields more personal data than claimed
20 Mar 2014
Two computer science graduate students from Stanford have found that the NSA's mass collection of phone records can yield much more information about people's private lives than the US government claims
US consortium H2USA creating infrastructure for hydrogen vehicles
20 Mar 2014
A consortium of US automakers, energy companies, government laboratories, and others is accelerating the rollout of an infrastructure for hydrogen-powered vehicles, a few months before such vehicles become available in the US for the first time
Bionic plants
19 Mar 2014
Nanotechnology could turn shrubbery into supercharged energy producers or sensors for explosives.
Scientists detect first direct evidence for Big Bang theory
18 Mar 2014
The ground-breaking results have come from observations of the cosmic microwave background, a faint glow left over from the Big Bang, by the BICEP2 telescope
Discrepancies in clinical trial reporting raise questions of accuracy
By By Karen N. Peart | 12 Mar 2014
Bending the light with a tiny chip
11 Mar 2014
Indian American scientist develops first 3D model of human fingerprint
08 Mar 2014
This development will not only help today’s fingerprint-matching technology do its job better, but could eventually lead to improvements in security
Newly catalyst may lead to low-cost, clean production of methanol
By By Mark Shwartz | 07 Mar 2014
Quantum chips: D-wave chip passes rigorous tests
07 Mar 2014
13-yr UK schoolboy becomes youngest to create nuclear fusion
07 Mar 2014
The student,Jamie Edwards, created enough energy to smash two hydrogen atoms together to make helium
Countries most at risk from Ukraine-style revolt identified
06 Mar 2014
A teaching tool developed to investigate the relationship between digital technology and political upheaval correctly identified Ukraine as the country most-likely to undergo a revolution
New catalyst could lead to cleaner energy
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 06 Mar 2014
Scientists propose galactic gas stations
By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office | 05 Mar 2014
Future lunar missions may be fuelled by gas stations in space where a spacecraft might dock, somewhere between the Earth and the moon, and pick up extra rocket fuel before making its way to the lunar surface
High-protein diet as bad as smoking: Study
05 Mar 2014
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