Mark Hoffman : Science World Report

May 20, 2013 03:34 PM EDT

Unique Quantum Simulation Device Enables New Experiments

Quantum physicists in Innsbruck conducted experiments using a new device, which is currently considered to be one of the most promising developments in quantum physics: a quantum simulator.

May 20, 2013 02:19 PM EDT

Genetic Screening Can Reveal Hidden Risk For Coronary Heart Disease

Finnish researchers have shown that genetic marker information can improve risk evaluation of coronary heart disease. The study comprised over 24,000 Finnish subjects and was led by Professor Samuli Ripatti.

May 19, 2013 11:18 PM EDT

Laser Cutting Will Make Skull Surgeries Much Safer

If the brain starts to swell after a stroke, surgery is often the only treatment option – one in which the physicians open the patient’s cranial vault. Up to now, they would reach for the drill and the saw. Soon, a laser beam will cut the bone and lower the risk.

May 19, 2013 10:09 PM EDT

New X-Ray Method With Low Radiation Dose Can Visualize Soft Tissue

Scientists developed a new, lower dose X-ray method that works completely different than classical X-ray radiographs that provide information about absorptive structures such as bones. Conversely, the new method is based on diffraction and can image soft tissues in 3D and high resolution.

May 18, 2013 09:57 PM EDT

40 Gbit Fast Wireless Data Transmission Marks New World Record

A wireless transmission with 40 Gbit/s over a distance of one kilometer, achieved by researchers of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Germany, set a new world record and ties in seamlessly with the capacity of optical fiber transmiss...

May 17, 2013 11:42 PM EDT

Towards Artificial Photosynthesis With Insight About Key Manganese Complex

Together with a large international research team, Johannes Messinger of Umeå University in Sweden has taken another step toward an understanding of photosynthesis and developing artificial photosynthesis. With a combination of a x-ray free-electron laser and spectroscopy, the team has managed to s...

May 17, 2013 10:36 PM EDT

Australian Scientists Use Big Printer to Make Organic Solar Cells

Australian scientists have produced the largest flexible, plastic solar cells of the Southern continent – ten times the size of what they were previously able to – thanks to a new solar cell printer that has been installed at CSIRO.

May 17, 2013 09:53 PM EDT

Worlds Largest Virtual Universe Now Running For 10 Straight Years

The massively multiplayer game EVE Online is special in many ways -- it is possibly one of the biggest social experiments ever, and it is live and growing. The epic online universe is running persistently since exactly 10 years this month, which means that player characters "born" at the launch day ...

May 17, 2013 03:53 PM EDT

Flexible Skin Technology Enables Thin Non-Invasive Heart Monitor

A new wearable heart monitor is thinner than a dollar bill, possible thanks to combined layers of flexible materials into pressure sensors. The Stanford engineers who developed the skin-like device hope that it could soon provide doctors with a safer and more convenient way to check the condition of...

May 17, 2013 02:19 PM EDT

Economics Catch Up on Ignored Value of Research and Knowledge, Trillions in Shadow Capital

Economic growth and the current GDP are actually higher than the usual statistics show, because intangibles such as knowledge and research are not accounted for!

May 16, 2013 10:52 PM EDT

Upgrade of Global Positioning System With 4th Launch of Modern Satellite

A major upgrade of the GPS satellite navigation system is underway, with aging GPS satellites being replaced with the latest generation, having more powerful capabilities. The U.S. Air Force launched the fourth of the new version GPS IIF satellite this week, which offers improved navigational accura...

May 16, 2013 09:36 PM EDT

Missile Defense System Matures With 23rd Successful Intercept

The US Ballistic Missile Defense system had another successful test this week, with a next-generation Standard Missile-3 Block IB fired from the missile cruiser USS Lake Erie destroying a complex, separating short-range ballistic missile target with a sophisticated separating mock warhead.