High-octane bacteria could ease pain at the pump: Engineered E. coli...
New lines of engineered bacteria can tailor-make key precursors of high-octane biofuels that could one day replace gasoline, scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at...
View ArticleRivals seek tough EU antitrust action on Google
A coalition of Google's competitors urged the European Union's antitrust watchdog Tuesday to reject the Internet giant's proposed concessions on displaying search results.
View ArticleClearing up confusion on future of Colorado River flows
The Colorado River provides water for more than 30 million people, including those in the fast-growing cities of Las Vegas, Phoenix and Los Angeles. Increasing demand for that water combined with...
View ArticlePhysicists create tabletop antimatter 'gun'
(Phys.org) —An international team of physicists working at the University of Michigan has succeeded in building a tabletop antimatter "gun" capable of spewing short bursts of positrons. In their paper...
View ArticleNREL reports world record 31.1 percent efficiency for III-V solar cell
(Phys.org) —The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Lab has announced a world record of 31.1% conversion efficiency for a two-junction solar cell under one sun of illumination.
View ArticleLaser guided codes advance single pixel terahertz imaging
The universe is awash in terahertz (THz) waves, as harmless as they are abundant. But unlike other regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, THz has proven to be extremely difficult to manipulate in...
View ArticleNew approach to mobile video fuses streaming and downloading to dodge delays,...
It's the bane of streaming media—the endlessly spinning cursor on a dark screen, or the final minutes of a favorite show freezing to a halt when the wireless signal weakens. A new technology developed...
View ArticleTen thousandth near-Earth object unearthed in space
(Phys.org) —More than 10,000 asteroids and comets that can pass near Earth have now been discovered. The 10,000th near-Earth object, asteroid 2013 MZ5, was first detected on the night of June 18, 2013,...
View ArticleStudy ranks social contacts by job and social group in bid to fight...
In the light of Novel Corona Virus, concerns over H7N9 Influenza in S.E. Asia, and more familiar infections such as measles and seasonal influenza, it is as important as ever to be able to predict and...
View ArticleResearchers strike gold with nanotech vaccine
Scientists in the US have developed a novel vaccination method that uses tiny gold particles to mimic a virus and carry specific proteins to the body's specialist immune cells.
View ArticleScientists discover thriving colonies of microbes in ocean 'plastisphere'
(Phys.org) —Scientists have discovered a diverse multitude of microbes colonizing and thriving on flecks of plastic that have polluted the oceans—a vast new human-made flotilla of microbial communities...
View ArticleGas-giant exoplanets cling close to their parent stars
Gemini Observatory's Planet-Finding Campaign finds that, around many types of stars, distant gas-giant planets are rare and prefer to cling close to their parent stars. The impact on theories of...
View ArticleLow-power Wi-Fi signal tracks movement—even behind walls
The comic-book hero Superman uses his X-ray vision to spot bad guys lurking behind walls and other objects. Now we could all have X-ray vision, thanks to researchers at MIT's Computer Science and...
View ArticleGoogle making videogame console and smart watch: report
Google is working on a videogame console and smart watch powered by Android software that has been a hit in smartphones and tablets, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
View ArticleTouchCast introduces its interactive video iPad app
(Phys.org) —A company founded in New York in 2010 is aiming to lift the online video experience to a new level. Erick Schonfeld, a co-founder of the startup company TouchCast, said that the problems...
View ArticleWith new logo and focus, Motorola touts latest phone at Techweek
The Motorola batwings are back - but with a new feel and focus as the company prepares to launch its first smartphone developed under Google ownership and open its new headquarters downtown.
View ArticleSilicon Valley long has had ties to military, intelligence agencies
Disclosures about a secret government intelligence effort called Prism have rocked some of Silicon Valley's leading Internet companies, but the program is hardly the first instance of U.S. military and...
View ArticleApple proposes combined-input port for space-deprived devices
(Phys.org) —People who use their computers on the go know the limitations: A superslim lightweight laptop is convenient for all those work-in-transit times in cafes, airports, train stations, and...
View ArticleIce mass the size of Greenland overlooked in climate models
Far more of Earth's water was locked up as ice at the height of the last ice age than previously thought, and current climate change models may need to be adjusted to account for it, according to a new...
View ArticleExploring dinosaur growth
Tracking the growth of dinosaurs and how they changed as they grew is difficult. Using a combination of biomechanical analysis and bone histology, palaeontologists from Beijing, Bristol, and Bonn have...
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