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Researchers Think Blood Proteins May Hold Key to Developing Instruments for Use by First-Responders

To develop a fast, cheap and accurate technology for determining the level of radiation exposure victims might suffer in a nuclear incident, Stanford is leading a new federally funded consortium of academic, government a...

27 Jan 2010

Bizarre Substance Predicted to Shrink Electronics

A bizarre substance predicted to shrink electronics and give quantum physicists a new tabletop toy behaves pretty much as its designers expected.

27 Jan 2010

Power-Generating Rubber Films Harnessing Natural Body Movements to Power Electronic Devices

Power-generating rubber films developed by Princeton University engineers could harness natural body movements such as breathing and walking to power pacemakers, mobile phones and other electronic devices.

27 Jan 2010

Smart Capsules Releasing Contents on Demand

How can an active principle be delivered in a controlled way? Until now, there was no obvious answer to this question. Now however, researchers at the CNRS Paul Pascal Research Center in Bordeaux have designed smart caps...

27 Jan 2010

Understanding What Happens in Liquids and Solids

On 27th January 2010 the 25th series of experiments studying complex plasmas will start on board the international space station ISS. Physicists from the Max-Planck-Institute for extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, will use them to study fundamental structure forming processes to better understand what happens in liquids and solids.

27 Jan 2010

Iron-Plated Snail Could Inspire New Armor

Tiny snails sitting on the ocean floor might seem defenseless against a large, determined predator such as a crab. But evolution has provided one species of sea snail with a unique iron-plated armored shell that resists such attacks, new research from MIT shows.

27 Jan 2010