Find a Parking Place Through Cyberspace
You arrive at an event with plenty of time but still end up being late after wasting valuable time desperately looking for a parking space. However, Anagog app on your mobile phone can help you…
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Sodium Gives Rechargeable Batteries a Boost
Lithium ion batteries can be recharged hundreds of times and work well, but lithium is expensive. Researchers at Michigan Technological University have found an effective and virtually inexhaustible substitute for lithium. They believe sodium could…
Cobalt the Answer to Cheaper, More Sustainable Solar Cells
A copper-based dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) is relatively inexpensive compared to its silicon cousin but it does not have the same level of energy conversion efficiency as a silicon solar cell. However, a new breakthrough…
Brain-Controlled Bionic Leg Revolutionizes Prosthetics
Scientists at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago reported last week on a revolutionary new advancement in prosthetic technology – a prosthetic leg that can be controlled entirely by the user’s brain. Zac Vawter, a 32-year…
Nanoropes of Carbyne Stronger Than Graphene and Diamonds
Carbyne has actually been around since an approximation of the material was first synthesized in the USSR in 1960. However, until this research, not much was known about it and carbyne was thought to be…
Self-Assembling Robots Ready to Jump, Climb, End the Human Race
A team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has unveiled a new self-assembling robot that has already drawn humorous comparisons to Optimus Prime and the T-1000 robot from Terminator 2. While the small, cube-shaped robots…
China’s Synthetic Gas Plants Would Choke Out 21 Billion Tons of Carbon Dioxide
Synthetic Gas Plants being planned in China present a host of ecological worries. China’s government has permitted construction of nine such plants in northern and western China. These plants are able to generate more than…
Carbon Combines Web’s Spider-Man Stretch with Man of Steel Strength
Scientists at Florida State University’s MagLab facility have successfully turned spider silk into microscopic wires that can conduct electricity. This nanotubes-coated spider silk is tough and can stretch and shrink with humidity. Almost all modern…
Old CDs Spin a New Tune as Sewage Water Treatment
There’s a new use for the CDs you abandoned for MP3 files. At this month’s Frontiers in Optics meeting in Florida, Taiwanese researchers will present an intriguing new way of breaking down sewage – spinning…
What Lies Beneath Lake Vostok’s Sheet of Ice?
In a major achievement hailed by scientists around the world, Russian scientists finally reached the surface of pristine Lake Vostok after more than two decades of drilling. The lake water is considered to have been…
