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Robots seen as solution to Japan’s aging, shrinking population

By Don Clyde | September 9, 2010

The wedding conductor spoke, her arms moving with slow jerky movements, as her large, egg-shaped, glowing eyes flashed from purple to blue to green and yellow. Strange?

Science

Nanotech spurs battery innovation

By Newsdesk.org Staff | September 8, 2010

While the rest of the world was waiting around for that better mousetrap, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed a startling breakthrough in battery technology.

Science

Researchers edge toward artificial photosynthesis

By Newsdesk.org Staff | September 6, 2010

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a process that allows them to imitate photosynthesis—a potentially critical breakthrough in the search for clean, sustainable energy.

Science

Engineer paints it blacker than black

By Natalie Orenstein | August 30, 2010

This Purdue University electrical and computer engineering professor is undoubtedly running in the black, due to his creation of a blacker-than-black metamaterial that absorbs virtually all light.

Culture

Shear beams, engineering and the science of the new Bay Bridge

By Newsdesk.org Staff | August 23, 2010

Putting aside mind-blowing cost overruns, along with delays at a Chinese steel fabrication plant, engineers and scientists are following the equally mind-blowing construction feats in the eastern span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.

Culture

“The Last Supper” gets supersized

By Newsdesk.org Staff | August 19, 2010

Over the years, artists’ depictions of Jesus’ last supper have upped the ante on the portions—by a whopper-sized 69 percent.

Culture

Political website calls Einsteinian physics a ‘liberal conspiracy’

By Don Clyde | August 13, 2010

Conservapedia list 28 “Counterexamples to Relativity” and associates the theory with the philosophy of relativism.

Science

Scientist studies sound sleepers, spindles

By Natalie Orenstein | August 12, 2010

A study conducted by Harvard neurologist Jeffrey Ellenbogen examines the makings of a sound sleeper.

Science

New tech turns ordinary windows into solar cells

By Don Clyde | August 12, 2010

New thin-film technology could also be applied to other surfaces, turning buildings into power generators.

Science

Turks turn tires into ‘stardust’

By Newsdesk.org Staff | August 10, 2010

If successful, the process could prove instrumental in the vexing environmental challenge of dealing with landfill-hogging tires. In Europe alone, 325,000 tons of tires are buried in landfills each year.

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