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Print Email Share Giant NASA balloon lands in outback By Chrissy Arthur Updated Mon Apr 19, 2010 8:53am AEST PreviousNextSlideshow: Photo 1 of 2 The balloon is the size of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, (ABC News: ABC News) Video: Scientists release research balloon (7pm TV News NSW) Map: Longreach 4730 Scientists are trying to recover a massive NASA balloon and several tonnes of equipment that...
April, 19 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
SCIENTISTS have lent web chat a helping hand by creating a remote-control limb that can grip, shake and gesture over the internet. The robotic hand, made by researchers at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, can act out the movements of someone on the other side of the world. It costs about $US50 ($54) to build and is controlled by a bracelet that picks up electric signals in the muscles of the wearer. Lead researcher Professor Liu Yunhui says: “Due to residential...
April, 18 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
BY Ethan Sacks DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Wednesday, March 10th 2010, 11:55 AM Trezzini/AP The Large Hadron Collider, opened in 2008, is designed to hurl sub-atomic particles into each other at speeds whose resulting release of energy can recreate some of the conditions of the Big Bang. Scientists have made a major discovery using the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest atom-smasher, a $5 billion feat of engineering built to re-create conditions in the universe...
March, 26 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Print Email Share Stem cell expert confident of diabetes cure Posted 3 hours 16 minutes ago The head of the world's richest stem cell research fund says he expects to see a cure for diabetes in little more than a decade. Professor Alan Trounson has highlighted research that has transformed human embryonic stem cells into insulin-producing cells to treat diabetes in mice. He says the technique could work equally with humans. "I do think...
February, 19 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy First, they teleported photons, then atoms and ions. Now one physicist has worked out how to do it with energy, a technique that has profound implications for the future of physics. Today, building on a number of papers published in the last year, Hotta outlines his idea and its implications. The process of teleportation involves making a measurement on each one an entangled pair of particles. He points out that the measurement...
February, 4 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
The world's biggest atom-smasher could be jinxed by a future force to protect the world, scientists say / AP In a bizarre sci-fi theory, Danish physicist Dr Holger Bech Nielsen and Dr Masao Ninomiya from Japan claim the LHC startup has been delayed due to nature trying to prevent it from finding the elusive Higgs boson, or "God particle". Last year, Professor Brian Cox of Manchester University told the UK Telegraph that LHC scientists had received threatening emails and...
October, 19 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Click for more photos An image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 shows the sharpest visible-light picture taken of the impact feature (dark spot) and "backsplash" of material from anl object that plunged into Jupiter's atmosphere. Photo: NASA NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has recorded the most detailed images yet of the plume of atmospheric debris caused by an object that plunged into Jupiter in a rare collision with the planet. via...
September, 20 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
via watoday.com.au Bizarre new fish species found A group of researchers discovered a fish species believed to be the first of its kind ever spotted by human beings. (00:45)
September, 20 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves