Tech : Science World Report

May 21, 2012 07:36 AM EDT

New App Identifies Faces in Photos

Imagine taking a snapshot of a group of friends and having your smartphone instantly reveal the identity of everyone in the photo.

May 20, 2012 05:14 PM EDT

The Dalai Lama Supports 2045â€™s Avatar Project

The 2045 initiative has received the blessing and support from the Dalai Lama, as it prepares to announce the second Global Future 2045 Congress, being held in New York, June, 2013.

May 20, 2012 04:52 PM EDT

VIDEO: 2045: A New Era for Humanity

The world is on the verge of global change. The rate of globally significant events, and that of discoveries and crises, is growing exponentially. We are facing the choice: To fall into a new Dark Age -- into affliction and degradation â€“ or to find a new model for human development and create...

May 20, 2012 03:20 PM EDT

Possible Engine Problem Delays U.S. Rocket Launch

The launch of a privately owned Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station was delayed on Saturday when a computer detected a possible problem with one of the rocket's engines, a Space Exploration Technologies official said.

May 18, 2012 04:38 PM EDT

New Silicon Memory Chip Developed

The first purely silicon oxide-based 'Resistive RAM' memory chip that can operate in ambient conditions - opening up the possibility of new super-fast memory - has been developed by researchers at UCL.

May 18, 2012 01:17 PM EDT

En Route to a Quantum Computer

The Volkswagen Foundation is financing a materials science project being conducted jointly by the universities in Mainz and OsnabrÃ¼ck in collaboration with the JÃ¼lich Research Center. The support is to be provided over a period of three years and will total â‚¬550,000.

May 18, 2012 12:56 PM EDT

Ultra-short Laser Pulses for Science and Industry

Laser technology uses light. Light can be rapidly and precisely deflected, shaped and focused. If we pulse laser light and reduce pulse duration more and more, the laser tool works even more precisely.

May 18, 2012 11:08 AM EDT

Laser Scan at Full Speed

Laser systems can be used to implement highly precise and ultra-fast measuring processes. Railway measuring technology has a huge worldwide need here.

May 18, 2012 07:12 AM EDT

Iran Threatens to Sue Google over Dropping Persian Gulf

Iran's Foreign Ministry threatened on Thursday to take legal action against Google for dropping the name Persian Gulf from its Google Maps and leaving the waterway between Iran and Arab states nameless, state television reported.

May 18, 2012 07:05 AM EDT

ZTE Confirms Security Hole in U.S. Phone

ZTE Corp, the world's No.4 handset vendor and one of two Chinese companies under U.S. scrutiny over security concerns, said one of its mobile phone models sold in the United States contains a vulnerability that researchers say could allow others to control the device.

May 17, 2012 11:54 AM EDT

3-Telescope Interferometry Allows Astrophysicists to Observe How Black Holes Are Fueled

By combining the light of three powerful infrared telescopes, an international research team has observed the active accretion phase of a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy tens of millions of light years away, a method that has yielded an unprecedented amount of data for such observa...

May 17, 2012 10:03 AM EDT

Beyond the High-Speed Hard Drive

Strange new materials experimentally identified just a few years ago are now driving research in condensed-matter physics around the world. First theorized and then discovered by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and their colleagues ...