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Mar 26, 2012 12:54 PM EDT

Not Your Average Heat Shield

In a new approach to invisibility cloaking, a team of French researchers has proposed isolating or cloaking objects from sources of heat-essentially "thermal cloaking." This method, which the researchers describe in the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal Optics Express, taps into some of th...

Mar 26, 2012 07:43 AM EDT

EU Push for Ocean Energy Set to Fall Short

Europe's wave and tidal power technology is likely to disappoint EU expectations for 2020 and take over a decade to contribute to energy supply in a significant way, even though it is chalking up rapid growth and drawing in big industrial investors.

Mar 23, 2012 02:55 PM EDT

Mountaintop Blasting to Mine the Sky with the Giant Magellan Telescope

Astronomers have begun to blast 3 million cubic feet of rock from a mountaintop in the Chilean Andes to make room for what will be the world's largest telescope when completed near the end of the decade. The telescope will be located at the Carnegie Institution's Las Campanas Observatory-one of the ...

Mar 23, 2012 02:09 PM EDT

Marine Forensics Expert Richard Woytowich Seeks to Windicate Titanic Survivors' Account

On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking, marine forensics expert Richard Woytowich will present a paper re-interpreting the statements made by survivors at the 1912 official inquiries into the disaster.

Mar 23, 2012 01:06 PM EDT

Researchers Unveil Robot Jellyfish Built on Nanotechnology

Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and Virginia Tech have created an undersea vehicle inspired by the common jellyfish that runs on renewable energy and could be used in ocean rescue and surveillance missions.

Mar 23, 2012 12:53 PM EDT

Facebook Buys 750 Patents from IBM: Source

Facebook has acquired hundreds of patents from International Business Machines Corp as the social networking company attempts to bolster its intellectual property portfolio in the wake of a lawsuit filed by Yahoo.

Mar 23, 2012 07:59 AM EDT

Standoff Sensing Enters New Realm with Dual-laser Technique

Identifying chemicals from a distance could take a step forward with the introduction of a two-laser system being developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Mar 21, 2012 03:55 PM EDT

Computer Model of Spread of Dementia Can Predict Future Disease Patterns Years Before They Occur

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have developed a computer program that has tracked the manner in which different forms of dementia spread within a human brain. They say their mathematic model can be used to predict where and approximately when an individual patient's brain will suffer f...

Mar 21, 2012 03:42 PM EDT

Electric Car Revolution Faces Increasing Headwinds

Scott Kluth has a love-hate relationship with his new Fisker Karma luxury electric sedan.

Mar 21, 2012 12:02 PM EDT

'Nanoslinky': A Novel Nanofluidic Technology for DNA Manipulation and Measurement

Remember SlinkyÂ®, the coiled metal spring that "walks" down stairs with just a push, momentum and gravity? Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed their own version of this classic-albeit 10 million times smaller-as a novel technology for manipulati...

Mar 21, 2012 11:52 AM EDT

USDA Forest Service and NASA Release Web-based Forest Disturbance Monitoring Tool

The USDA Forest Service's Eastern Forest and Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Centers recently unveiled a product that helps natural resource managers rapidly detect, identify, and respond to unexpected changes in the nation's forests by using web-based tools. ForWarn, a satellite-ba...

Mar 20, 2012 03:03 AM EDT

Spansion, Nuance Offer new Speech Package for Cars

Spansion Inc and Nuance Communications Inc are offering car makers an improved speech-recognition technology based on their software and semiconductors, the head of Spansion told Reuters.