The advent of many- and multi-core processor computing architectures will make it possible to deliver enormous computational power on a single chip, with…
Hiding a message within a chaotic transmission offers a way of securing information exchange – provided the message can be distinguished from the chaos by the…
Gandalf – the research project, not the fabled wizard – has developed groundbreaking technology to boost existing dsl data rates a thousand-fold and wifi by up…
Cosmic strings are predicted by high energy physics theories, including superstring theory. This is based on the idea that particles are not just little…
The latest country to join the International Year of Astronomy 2009 initiative is the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. This is a particularly welcome addition…
BepiColombo, a mission to make the most comprehensive study of Mercury ever, is due for launch in August 2013. It is the first dual mission to Mercury, with…
About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian, a major extinction event killed over 90 per cent of life on earth, including insects, plants, marine…
Dark-field images provide more detail than ordinary x-ray radiographs and could be used to diagnose the onset of osteoporosis, breast cancer or Alzheimer’s…
Ubiquitous computing, in the traditional sense, is based on the vision of making the computers invisible, Kyng suggests. “The problem is that when the…
Although there is broad consensus that there will be a significant rise in average global temperature, there is great uncertainty over the extent of the…
New extrusion based process for the production of biofuel pellets, no more expensive preliminary drying of material is needed. Freshly harvested biomass with a…
Presumably, the dramatic change in appearance and behavior tricks birds into eating infected ants – parasites and all – so that the bird can spread the…
Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have identified a novel cyclic signaling in the dermis that coordinates stem cell activity and…
The research is an attempt to show how history and cultural heritage can possible be spread among people using an unconventional way. It reports how history…
The procedure, described today in the journal Optics Express, cuts the production time of hollow-core optical fibres from around a week to a single day,…
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a human-pathogenic virus which belongs to the herpes virus family. Almost every adult carries EBV inside. With an infestation rate…
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