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02 May 2013
IBM have created the world's smallest movie using atoms - here's how they did it!
18 April 2013
Strange motion of water molecules mixed with nanotubes and carbon isotopes. What could the applications of this new...
11 April 2013
Scientists have developed a new laser-based imaging technique capable of producing high resolution 3-D images of...
04 April 2013
German scientists have designed a high-efficiency, low-cost lithium-sulphur battery...
04 April 2013
X-ray crystallography can now be carried out without crystals...
21 March 2013
In the 7 months since it landed the Curiosity rover has rolled 738 meters but one small step for a rover has been a...
20 March 2013
Engineers have come up with a way to deliver 3D images on mobiles, televisions and tablet computer screens without the...
14 March 2013
Physicists from the Russian Academy of Sciences claim to have made the first detection of water dimers in realistic...
07 March 2013
Researchers are now tracking online searches to find evidence for possible side effects to prescription drugs..
07 March 2013
Flame retardant DNA
28 February 2013
Scientists have produced a bendy battery that can stretch elastically to three times its normal length without...
28 February 2013
A team of US scientists have developed a flexible battery than can be stretched to three times its size without...
14 February 2013
Soft robots can be simple and cheap but incredibly agile - powered by explosions, they can leap at least 30 times their...
14 February 2013
A group of US and Chinese researchers have developed a generator that can convert footsteps into electrical power...
07 February 2013
And finally, enormous library archives of magnetic tape or other media could one day be a thing of the past if a new...
07 February 2013
A group of Korean researchers have produced flexible films of thermoelectric material that can generate electricity...
24 January 2013
Does improved energy efficiency translate into a saving for the planet? Or does it just mean people use more resources...
04 November 2012
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but scientists have developed a DNA-based “smart gel” that can contract...
04 November 2012
The light-emitting tails of fireflies have revealed a way for scientists to create more efficient LEDs.
01 November 2012
Nature has inspired researchers to make brighter, more efficient LEDs, by copying the structure of a firefly’s rear end.
23 September 2012
The drill bits which the Curiosity rover will use to examine Martian rocks may be contaminated with Earth life.
23 September 2012
A new form of backwards printing has been developed with a very high resolution
19 September 2012
In a giant leap for technology, scientists have doubled the electricity-producing efficiency of the thermoelectric...
16 September 2012
A superhydrophobic layer repels water from hot metal and prevents it boiling...