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‘Darkfield’ Lasers Let Mice Track on Glass
Monday, November 2nd, 2009 - Ehud Rattner
Logitech has recently introduced a new technology that allows optical PC mice to operate on glass. This feature can solve...

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Reading the Surface of the Brain

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 - 14:12:15 - Anuradha Menon

A technology currently used to monitor epilepsy is being adapted into a neural interface for people who are paralyzed or have motor impairments from...

New Evidence on Why We Have Fingerprints

Saturday, May 30th, 2009 - 16:47:42 - Anuradha Menon

Fingerprints do not help primates grip, as previously thought, scientists have discovered. They actually reduce the friction needed to hold onto flat...

Second Generation Surface Coming

Monday, March 16th, 2009 - 10:07:19 - Sarah Gingichashvili

A second generation of Microsoft's Surface computing device is two to three years away, the South by SouthWest Festival has heard. Developer Joe...

Water-Repellent and Self-Cleaning Surfaces

Thursday, January 29th, 2009 - 12:09:45 - Anuradha Menon

Manufactured water-repellent and self-cleaning surfaces, which shed debris or contaminants when sprayed, have many potential uses in daily life...

There Might Have Been Life on Mars

Friday, January 16th, 2009 - 10:06:30 - Anuradha Menon

Mars today is a world of cold and lonely deserts, apparently without life of any kind, at least on the surface. Worse still, it looks like Mars has...

MIT Finger The Cause of 'Gravity Fingers'

Saturday, December 13th, 2008 - 18:23:05 - Anuradha Menon

MIT researchers have found an elegant solution to a sticky scientific problem in basic fluid mechanics: Why water doesn't soak into soil at an even...