The three-year voyage is just about to end! Europe's first mission to the moon – the European Space Agency's SMART-1 – will crash-land in a cloud of dust and rock early Sunday.
The voyage has gathered data about the lunar surface. It also...
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Good news for any orthodontics patient going to the University of Manitoba in Canada! Forget about speaking with a receptionist. You can now "sign in" with your fingerprints by touching a fingerprint keypad at the front desk.
The University has...
Highest clouds above any planetary surface have been discovered by planetary scientists. To make this ground-breaking achievement above Mars, scientists used the Ultraviolet and Infrared Atmospheric Spectrometer (SPICAM) instrument on board the Mars...
MIT researchers have developed a software that can help predict the crystal structures of materials. To design this, the scientists have successfully integrated data mining tools and modern methods of quantum mechanics.
The developed program uses...
See-through silver made!
Milliwave Camera to capture image through smoke, clothing!
First superconductor-Based Propeller Motor to pass Underwater Test
Remote-controlled robotic surgeon for the battle field!
‘Anthropomorphic’ talking...
You can wear this new computer system! It is of amazing help for the blind people. This wearable computer system emits audio cues, helping the visually impaired know what is going around.
To do this, the System for Wearable Audio Navigation or...
NASA patented technology will now be aiding U.S. soldiers returning from overseas duty with spinal cord or traumatic brain injuries. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. has originally developed the new revolutionary physical therapy...
Now making stem cells will no longer mean destroying embryos! Thanks to the innovative move of a biotech company Advanced Cell Technology for developing this new way of making stem cells.
But, will this discovery bring an end to one of the country's...
It seems a day will soon come when one can hear no aircraft noise around an airport! NASA scientist hopes of making such aircrafts inspired by bird, which will glide off form the runway silently, just like a bird.
Bird-inspired technologies may...
Train accidents kills thousands each year across the world – most of them due to internal cracking on the railroad tracks. Scientists have developed a device that uses laser pulses to check for dangerous internal cracking.
The US Federal Railroad...
A promising method is developed for treating ovarian tumors using light. Researchers at the University of Geneva in Switzerland have successfully done this by combining a compound produced by the plant St. John’s wort with polymeric nanoparticles....
Now lightstick-power to help seal inaccessible, remote cracks!
First direct evidence for dark matter found
Now get programmable robots in Korea’s market!
New methods to screen nanoparticles’ interaction with human...
Iran tests surface-to-surface short-range missile
Stellar Pinwheels at Our Galaxy's super-massive black hole discovered
Canada to build its first $200 million spaceport
Electric Tweezers: It can manipulate, move almost any objects seen under...
Here is a good news for diabetics. Those painful daily pinpricks will be over soon. A new device has been developed that “interestingly” uses teardrops for measuring the amount of sugar in a person's blood. Yes, it’s teardrop.
According to the...
Bacteria-based nanoclusters! Yes, the Forschungszentrum Rossendorf research center scientists in Dresden have used the survival mechanism of special bacteria – named Bacillus sphaericus JG-A12 -- for producing solid nano-clusters out of palladium!...
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