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Magic Ink Takes On Any Color
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 - Anuradha Menon
Engineers have long experimented with replicating these so-called structural colors in synthetic materials, and now Sunghoon...

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Artificial Brain '10 Years Away'

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 - 09:01:03 - Anuradha Menon

A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years, a leading scientist has claimed. Henry Markram, director of the...

Color-Changing Materials React to Force

Friday, May 15th, 2009 - 14:49:11 - Anuradha Menon

Parachute cords, climbing ropes, and smart coatings for bridges that change color when overstressed are several possible uses for force-sensitive...

Diamonds Produced From Tequila

Thursday, November 13th, 2008 - 10:47:32 - Anuradha Menon

A method of producing synthetic diamonds using tequila - Mexico's favorite alcoholic drink - has been discovered, scientists there say. The amazing...

New Gecko-Like Adhesive That Shakes Off Dirt

Friday, September 12th, 2008 - 10:43:19 - Anuradha Menon

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are continuing their march toward creating a synthetic, gecko-like adhesive, one sticky step...

Future Biofuel Technology Developed

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 - 16:53:37 - Anuradha Menon

Biomethodes, a French biotechnology company in Evry, has signed an exclusive and worldwide option-to-license agreement with Virginia Tech...

New Way to Tell Left From Right

Thursday, June 12th, 2008 - 12:29:40 - Ehud Rattner

A Duke University chemist has apparently solved a long-standing frustration in creating certain synthetic molecules that make up drugs, which could...

Could Nanotechnology End Cartilage Loss?

Friday, June 6th, 2008 - 08:02:52 - Ehud Rattner

Scientists have long wrestled with how to aid those who suffer cartilage damage and loss. One popular way is to inject an artificial gel that can...

ISAM - Computed Image Revolution
Friday, November 30th, 2007 - Guy Molho
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a novel computational image-forming technique...