Commonly observed in laboratories, spherical fullerenes or buckyballs recently made their first appearance to man in space through NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope’s Infrared Spectrograph.
Buckyballs are carbon molecules known for their distinct soccer ball shape. According to astronomer Jan Cami, the fullerenes are the largest molecules to be observed in space. The discovery has roused [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on August 17th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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In Israel, a scientific team led by Prof. Noam Sobel of the Weizmann Institute has developed a device which makes use of sniff-sensing to allow the severely disabled to communicate and even steer their wheelchair. The device works by sensing changes in air pressure in the nostrils which translates these into electrical signals for writing [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News, Technology on August 12th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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Like creating a miniature volcano using paper mâché and a careful mixture of white vinegar and baking soda, making a battery out of a potato is a quintessential school science experiment. Centuries after its discovery as an effective conductor of electricity, researchers from the University of Jerusalem in Israel are saying the potato battery can [...]
Filed under: Community, News, Technology on August 11th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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While most would agree that using rechargeable batteries is already better for the environment than using single use alkaline batteries, Apple has designed a battery charger that presents an improvement over traditional battery charging stations.
With a power-management system that cuts the power when the batteries are fully-charged, the new battery charger nearly eliminates the [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on August 9th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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At the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), leading researchers are being brought together to work on an ambitious project: to develop an integrated solar energy-to-fuel conversion system and move it from the bench-top discovery phase and bring it to the market for commercialization. It will require an amalgamation of experts from multiple disciplines to [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on August 8th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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The key to unlocking the secrets of the universe lies in the existence of one abstract form of matter. The Higgs Boson, more popularly known as the “God particle,” is a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle thought to be responsible for the formation of the cosmos after the Big Bang. Scientists have been trying to [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on August 7th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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On March 20th, a 60-foot boat constructed of plastic soda bottles disembarked from the San Francisco bay area on an 11,000-mile journey across the Pacific Ocean. Aptly named Plastiki, the boat was the brainchild of banking heir and environmentalist, David de Rothschild. Four months later, on July 26th, the catarman finally docked at Sydney’s Darling [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on August 5th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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At Hebrew University (HU) in Israel, scientists have developed a new processing algorithm and database for utilizing GPS technology that can help application developers to create high-tech devices and tools to analyze and study the way people move about in their communities.
Already, Dr. Noam Shoval, head of the Geography Department at HU and his doctoral [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News, Technology on August 4th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of MIT’s Media Lab and proponent of the non-profit association, One Laptop Per Child, introduced a prototype of a laptop costing just $100 for students in the developing world. Believing the cost was still too steep, India sought to invent an even less expensive technology-based aid for its students.
The result [...]
Filed under: News, Technology, education on August 2nd, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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At a recent press conference held at the company’s headquarters, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that free protective cases will be given to buyers of its latest iPhone model to alleviate the issue of wireless signal loss. The more than 3 million people who have already bought the iPhone 4 as well as new buyers [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Press, Technology on July 27th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.