Japanese scientists flexible battery

	Japanese Scientists Work on a Flexible Battery
...e some organic radical polymers are soluble in electrolyte solutions. This results in discharging the battery. The polymer, though, should be soluble, so that the spin-coating would be possible. The Japanese scientistshave overcome this problem by photocrosslinking, though. This made the polymer more stable and stronger from the mechanical point of view. Prof. Peter Skabara, from the University of Strathclyde, was impr...
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	Japan's uncertain guilt for sex slavery during World War II
...revision of landmark apology that was made in 1993. They defend a standpoint in which Asian women were paid for prostitution and that was their free will to do so, thus denying the involvement of the Japanese military authorities. US House of Representatives reacted with indignation at Japan's apology to make it official and fully admit the fact of sex slavery. The debates in US media touched upon the matter of ...
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	Biofuel Vehicles to Put Our Health at Risk
...regions, in general there would be over 700 extra complaints to accident and emergency and almost 1000 extra hospitalizations of people suffering from asthma and other respiratory ailments. The scientists determined that the use of ethanol reduces levels of two carcinogens found in atmosphere, while increases levels of other carcinogens. Thus, cancers caused by atmospheric carcinogens would remain at the same leve...
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	New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans
...e field of light emitting devices might change the way people light their homes and design clothes. The device represents a thin film of plastic able to conduct electricity and create solar power. Scientists working on the international project are looking forward to bring the organic light emitting devices to the masses. Thus the invention could significantly cut costs by billions of dollars each year. Due to the f...
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	Plastic Blood and Airplanes Shifting Shapes – Close to Reality?
...Plastic is everywhere and in the nearest future it may even float through our veins. The nature of plastic allows scientists to create a molecule similar to hemoglobin, the cells responsible for carrying oxygen. Plastic blood will provide a lot of advantages - it will be more painless to get, it will be easy to carry and store it. Although plastic is widely used in aircraft manufacturing, scientists work on the develop...
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	The 2007 Winners of Ig Nobel Prize Who Made us Laugh and Think
... Physics L. Mahadevan of Harvard University, USA, and Enrique Cerda Villablanca of Universidad de Santiago de Chile, were awarded for finding the key to how sheets become wrinkled. Chemistry Japanese scientist Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Center of Japan managed to extract a vanilla fragrance and flavor from cow dung. Nutrition Brian Wansink of Cornell University, once questioned the limits of h...
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	NASA to Strike the Moon with a Double Sledgehammer
..., is "like trying to drive to San Francisco and not knowing where it is on the map." Together with other scientists working on this mission he looks forward to use the studies from LRO as well as the Japanese Kaguya (Selene) lunar orbiter in order to target the locations of the crater before the arrival of LCROSS. "Nobody has ever been to the poles of the moon, and there are very unique craters - similar to Mercury - w...
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	Tongue Drive System to Operate Computers
...Scientists developed a new revolutionary system to help individuals with disabilities to control wheelchairs, computers and other devices simply by using their tongue. Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology say that a new technology called Tongue Drive system will be helpful to individuals with serious disabilities, such as those with severe spinal cord injuries and will allow them to lead more active and in...
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	Message from Aliens to Arrive in 2015
...2015 from live forms from the Altair solar system. They say that the message will be the response to a radio-wave signal, which had been sent to Altair a quarter century ago by Hisashi Hirabayashi, a Japanese astronomer. According to Mr. Hirabayashi the response is likely to arrive in 2015. This is in case the intelligent beings received the message decoded it and sent an instant response. It is worth mentioning that ...
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	Japanese Researchers Are Allowed To Clone Human Embryos
... Japanese scientists can now clone human embryos, according to a proposal that was approved by a team of experts at the education and science ministry. It is worth mentioning that scientists will be able to clone human embryos in order to perform studies on incurable diseases. The proposal that comes under the cloning technology control law is to be analyzes by the end of current year. This is going to make Japan the ...
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	Japanese Scientists Developed Flash Able to Function for Hundreds of Years
...Japanese scientists claim they have developed world's first flash memory with a potential lifetime of hundreds of years. Working at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and the University of Tokyo, scientists mentioned that the new chips are able to work at lower voltages than the usual ones. It is worth mentioning that Flash memorychips are included in such products as Apple's iPhone, mi...
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	Scientific contribution in Iraq war undermined
...Britain's Armed Forces may no longer take part in operations countering Iraq's threat without considerable funds in essential technology advancements, where scientists make their greatest contribution, announced a committee of MPs. As it was disclosed by the Commons Defense Committee report, scientists from Dstl (Defense Science and Technology Laboratory), an agency of the Ministry of Defence, have their final word for...
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	Humanoids continue invading
...The 21st century is not the time, when people can be easily impressed, this can be refered to another, whether weird or wise, invention of the Japanese, that is a humanoid robot. On the other hand the most impressive thing is that people are still striving to create somebody, or something, to resemble themselves. This game has ended up in a demonstration of bots to help the aging population of Japan in their everyda...
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	Storm virus attacks blogs
...Storm virus is back again to infect blogs, webmails and bulletin boards. British and Korean computer security scientists claim it's a new variant of malware that is extremely difficult to detect. The Storm worm looks like a message that features news about Europe's storms. In fact, this virus can evaluate network traffic on the computer and later insert a link to malicious website into user's post, webmail or bulleti...
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	DNA research approaches the origins of human beings
...me from. The National Geographic Society together with IBM initiate a global project where more than 10,000 inhabitants will have their DNA tested to make up a huge database. Efforts of well-known scientists in geography and genetic medicine will reside in 10 world regions to find traces of human ancestry. Aside from DNA information collected from indigenous people, other people can also have their genetic data teste...
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