Technology - general
Protoplanet Vesta: Forever young?
By By Jia-Rui C. Cook and Stuart Wolpert | 05 Nov 2012
Quantum physics to help fight cyber crime
01 Nov 2012
Fundamental particles of light, known as photons, can be used to verify security and authenticity of any transaction or communication with a ‘digital signature’
Pacific Northwest smart grid demonstration project begins two-year data collection period
31 Oct 2012
Earth sunblock only needed if planet warms easily
By By Mary Beckman, PNNL | 31 Oct 2012
ORNL debuts Titan supercomputer
30 Oct 2012
Accelerator mass spectrometer suggests cultural exchange between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens
30 Oct 2012
New understanding of Antarctica’s weight-loss
30 Oct 2012
How a fish 'broke' a law of physics
22 Oct 2012
Lubricants from vegetable oil
20 Oct 2012
Optical vortices on a chip
20 Oct 2012
British company produces petrol from air
19 Oct 2012
A small British company has produced the first "petrol from air" using a revolutionary technology that promises to solve the energy crisis even as it helps curb global warming with the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Researchers use solar power to study wild elephants in Africa
By By Mark Shwartz | 19 Oct 2012
Ice-sheet retreat controlled by the landscape
17 Oct 2012
Power in the palm of your hands
15 Oct 2012
Drawing a line, with carbon nanotubes
13 Oct 2012
Applying information theory to linguistics
By By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 11 Oct 2012
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