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Feb 17, 2012 03:16 PM EST

Georgia Tech Develops Braille-like Texting App

Imagine if smartphone and tablet users could text a note under the table during a meeting without anyone being the wiser. Mobile gadget users might also be enabled to text while walking, watching TV or socializing without taking their eyes off what they're doing.

Feb 17, 2012 02:28 PM EST

Sandia National Laboatoriers Researchers Find Energy Storage 'Solutions' in MetILs

Sandia researchers have developed a new family of liquid salt electrolytes, known as MetILs, that could lead to batteries able to cost-effectively store three times more energy than today's batteries.

Feb 17, 2012 01:47 PM EST

Griffith's 3-D Microscopy a Research Breakthrough

New technoloy opens up pathways for disease cures

Feb 17, 2012 09:13 AM EST

Puzzle Play Improves Math Skills

An important context for figuring out problems through reasoning is puzzle play, say researchers at University of Chicago. An important context for figuring out problems through reasoning is puzzle play, say researchers at University of Chicago. Psychologist Susan Levine and colleagues recently cond...

Feb 16, 2012 05:07 PM EST

Fukushima at Increased Earthquake Risk

Seismic risk at the Fukushima nuclear plant increased after the magnitude 9 earthquake that hit Japan last March, scientists report. The new study, which uses data from over 6,000 earthquakes, shows the 11 March tremor caused a seismic fault close to the nuclear plant to reactivate.

Feb 16, 2012 04:42 PM EST

German Mathematician Receives China's Top Award for International Scientific Cooperation

The Bielefeld mathematician Professor Dr. Andreas Dress has been honoured with the 'International Science and Technology Cooperation Award' for his scientific achievements and for setting up the Max Planck Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai.

Feb 16, 2012 01:51 PM EST

Apple Releases OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview with Over 100 New Features

AppleÂ® today released a developer preview of OS XÂ® Mountain Lion, the ninth major release of the worldâ€™s most advanced operating system, which brings popular apps and features from iPadÂ® to the MacÂ® and accelerates the pace of OS X innovation. Mountain Lion introduces Messages, No...

Feb 16, 2012 01:29 PM EST

Broadband Internet For Everyone

John just loves playing soccer, and he's really looking forward to the weekend game, which he's agreed to organize. First, he needs to tell his teammates and friends about it, then he must rustle up an opposing team and find a referee â€“ all of which will take him a considerable amount of time...

Feb 16, 2012 01:24 PM EST

Great News For Chimpanzees

The Republic of Congo has formally expanded NouabalÃ©-Ndoki National Park to protect an increasingly rare treasure: one of Africa's most pristine forests and a population of "naÃ¯ve" chimpanzees with so little exposure to humans that the curious apes investigate the conservationists who study th...

Feb 16, 2012 01:05 PM EST

MIT Research: New System Allows Robots to Continuously Map Their Environment

Robots could one day navigate through constantly changing surroundings with virtually no input from humans, thanks to a system that allows them to build and continuously update a three-dimensional map of their environment using a low-cost camera such as Microsoft's Kinect.

Feb 15, 2012 02:51 PM EST

Out of Africa? Data fail to support language origin in Africa

In the beginning was the word â€“ yes, but where exactly? Last year, Quentin Atkinson, a cultural anthropologist at Auckland University in New Zealand, proposed that the cradle of language could be localized in the southwest of Africa. The report, which appeared in Science, one of the world's l...

Feb 15, 2012 12:05 PM EST

Toyota Recalls Made No Dent On Their Brand

A study from North Carolina State University shows that Toyota's safety-related recalls that began in 2009 made little to no impact on how consumers perceived the brand.