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Thu, 17/09/2009 - 16:20
Truly green paper battery is algae-poweredThe batteries that power our everyday devices, from laptop computers, to mobile phones, watches, toys and flashlights, are a major source of pollution. The average household in the Western world uses about 20 batteries a year, resulting in hundreds of thousands of tons of discarded batteries that end up in landfills. When the battery casing corrodes, toxic heavy metals like mercury and cadmium can leak out and pollute soil and ground water.
Thu, 17/09/2009 - 16:14
Toyota Program: Slash Meeting CostsAs companies move to trim off-site costs, Toyota uses StarCite event-planning software to manage more than 400 annual face-to-face gatherings
Wed, 16/09/2009 - 12:14
Chinese Academy of Sciences establishes center for life science instruments and technological innovationThe Life Science Instruments and Technological Innovation Centre, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has been established in the Institute of Biophysics, CAS (IBP) in Beijing on September 10th. Being CAS' first life science instruments and technological innovation institution, the centre will be responsible to design and develop research equipments, such as precision machinery, precision optical devices and general electronics circuit, and realize basic control software formulation and debugging.
Wed, 16/09/2009 - 12:08
Flying highAmerica’s government has no money for its human-spaceflight plans. The private sector has plenty
Tue, 15/09/2009 - 14:58
Indian scientists develop world's hardest nanocomposite materialThe world's hardest plastic nano-composite material that can be used in missiles and aeroplanes has been discovered by a team of five Bangalore researchers headed by CNR Rao, scientific advisor to the Prime Minister of India. They created the material by reinforcing ordinary plastic with nano-diamonds, a sheet of layered carbon and tiny carbon cylinders.
Tue, 15/09/2009 - 14:54
A spotless recordThe sun has gone quiet IT IS almost exactly 400 years since Galileo turned his telescope on the sun and saw it to be an imperfect orb covered in spots, quite unlike the teachings of Greek cosmology. If his observations had been made four centuries later, he would have drawn a different conclusion. The sun has recently shed its spots, prompting sceptics to renew their claims that climate change is not anthropogenic but rather heliogenic.
Wed, 09/09/2009 - 12:48
Fighting it outCan a computer be programmed to be cunning yet fallible? IF A computer could fool a person into thinking that he were interacting with another person rather than a machine, then it could be classified as having artificial intelligence. That, at least, was the test proposed in 1950 by Alan Turing, a British mathematician. Turing envisaged a typed exchange between machine and person, so that a genuine conversation could happen without the much harder problem of voice emulation having to be addressed. |
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