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Japanese Scientists Work on a Flexible Battery |
 ...de, Hiroaki Konishi and Takeo Suga, all of them from the Waseda University, are considered to improve the technology. Their development is based on a redox-active polymer film, which is about 400 nanometers thick. The charge carriers of this battery are the Nitroxide radical groups. Due to a high radical density these thin batteries have a high level of charging and discharging.
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Invisibility is now one step closer |
| ...e UK physicists to create a theoretical design, which in its turn uses an array of very small needles. The latter radiate from a central spoke outwards.
The theoretical design looks like a round hairbrush. It would bend around any object that is "cloaked". Those objects that are situated in the background will be visible but the ones that are cloaked not. Vladimir Shalaev, the university's Robert and Anne Burnett Prof... |
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Drug wars in Rio resulted in 19 casualties |
 ...est Brazilian city, where 19 people found their death. In one of the cases two rival groups initiated a shooting in one of the central regions of the city. The gang members tried to find cover on a cemetery, where many funeral processions were taking place at that very moment.
Local television broadcasted video clips, where one could see how people were trying to hide from the shooting. A man was seriously injured, whi... |
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Fighting in Somalia to cause aid crisis |
 ...tioned that it is important that the UN gets access to the people in Mogadishu as soon as possible.
The fighting on Friday came after at least 20 people died when the Ethiopian convoy mined 20 kilometers of the road that lead from Mogadishu to Afgooye.
People that were the eyewitnesses of the explosions said that they heard a sound of detonation at the complex of Ethiopian army south of the city.
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Nano-nose to help identify illnesses |
 ...Vince Rotello applied the same 'nose-principle' to detect proteins.
The 'nano nose' uses a system of six receptors, each one consisting of a solution with gold nano particles not larger than 2 nanometers, each one having a different coating too. Nitrogen atoms form the organic molecules which make up the coating of the nanoparticles.
Different types of proteins have different features, thus having a property to atta... |
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Russian Mine Blast at Novokuznetsk (coverage) |
| ...weeks.
The Governor of Kemerovo Oblast, Aman Tuleev, suggested that the blast could be caused by a breach in the coal-bed. According to him, 23 technicians, controlling the level of methane in the air, were also in the mine. He stressed that the explosion came absolutely unexpected, as the concentration of methane in the air in the mine had a normal level.
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London is among the most unsatisfied cities in the EU |
| ...Sweden and Finland - said they felt most secure in their countries.
These are some of the results of a research conducted in 2006 by the Public Opinion Analysis of the European Union called "Eurobarometer". Survey featured over 500 citizens of 75 cities of the EU.
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Second Smallest Country on Earth is Disappearing |
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The country,measuring a mere 26 km2 and its 10,500 people could be the first to sink due to the current rising sea level. Tuvalu island is a part of atolls and reefs that are no more than two meters above sea level and the rise in sea level is at twice the average global rate. In the past 10 years the sea level rise was more than 10 centimeters and this rise will continue due to climate changes, according to data ... |
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NASA Starts 2007 Competition to Build Space Elevator |
 ...th a beam of light from a transmitter, and the receiver on the climber will turn light into electricity to power the motors.
The team that will manage to make their robot climb at more than two meters per second speed will practically win the competition. Last year the team from the University of Saskatchewan team was reported to be the fastest to climb their robot but the speed of their robot was only an inch and a... |
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Bionic Lens to Create Virtual Vision |
 ... microfabrication and self-assembly methods that are usually used to produce semiconductor chips.
Scientists manged to introduce the tiny layers of metal in a circuit pattern, being only few nanometers thick on PET(polyethylene terephthalate) material. In order to incorporate LEDs (light-emitting diodes) they made small openings on the surface of the lens to create an image on the back of the retina, thus making the... |
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NASA to Strike the Moon with a Double Sledgehammer |
| ...ts target crater. Then it will retreat to watch the cloud of the moon dust and fragments kicked by the impact of Centaur and then fly through. The Shepherding Spacecraft in equipped with a light photometer, a light camera and 4 infrared cameras to perform the research of Centaur's lunar dust before it develops into a second impactor and then smashes another crater 4 minutes later.
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Robots to Become Our Closest Friends Soon |
 ... consortium led by the University of Plymouth on ITALK (Integration and Transfer of Action and Language Knowledge in Robots) start the experiment on March, 1.
The iCub, a small robot that is one meter high will be taught to speak to make it able to interact with humans. Professor Chrystopher Nehaniv and Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, who are leading European research in Artificial Intelligence and Human Robot Interact... |
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Computer the Size of a Molecule Imitates Brain Work |
 ...o complete even 1,000 times more operations.
The tiny computer is made of a duroquinone, a molecule looking like a hexagonal plate with four cones attached to it. Duroquinone is less than a nanometer large, which is hundreds times smaller than a wavelength of a visible light. The device is formed with 17 duroquinone molecules with one molecule positioned in the center and 16 others making up a ring. This wonder sits... |
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Scientists Discovered the Smallest Black Hole |
 ...and in the universe. The technical orchestra of computer parts, satellite images and the vast archive of human knowlege work together to improve our understanding. Imagine the information flow is like streaming music to our scientific ears.
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Terawatt Laser Beam Shot in the Clouds Provokes Lightning Strike |
 ... strikes using an increasing rate of pulses sent from the terawatt laser and applying more complicated sequences of laser pulses.
Mr. Mysyrowicz explains that when the laser beam goes through the air on its way to the cloud it becomes progressively more intense due to a process called "self-focusing." "The air acts like a succession of lenses, focusing the laser," mentioned Mysyrowicz.
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