An international team of researchers has used the world's most powerful X-ray laser to take snapshots of free molecules. The research team headed by Prof. Jochen Küpper of the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) ...
It’s Saturday afternoon and you have to drive your daughter to soccer practice and pick up her friend on the way. You also want to listen to a particular radio program and make some important phone calls. To make your driving ...
Tags: predictive technology, human-machine interface technology
Everything is awesome for Warner Bros as the animated movie added another £6m. The LEGO Movie is showing no signs of slowing down in the UK, as the film secured the UK box office top spot for the second week in a row. Screen ...
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A collection of 208 stickers features characters from the new series. Girmax's official Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures sticker collection is coming to retail. The collection of 208 stickers features characters from the new series. ...
Tags: Pac-Man, The Ghostly Adventures, Stickers
The range spans pocket sized plush to other reaching more than 30 inches in height, and the toys will retail from $5.99 to $99.00. Dumb Ways to Die, an Australian campaign by Metro Trains to promote rail safety, is to be immortalised in ...
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Wind turbines, like any machine with moving parts, can fail. They have a useful life span, after which the loading on the various pieces including turbine blades and tower could cause decreases in efficiency or, in very rare cases, outright ...
Tags: CeBIT, Monitor Oscillation, Fraunhofer Institute, laser
Topological insulators are the key to future spintronics technologies. EPFL scientists have unraveled how these strange materials work, overcoming one of the biggest obstacles on the way to next-generation applications. Spintronics is an ...
Tags: EPFL, Future Electronic, Material, Physical Review Letters
Robots are notoriously horrible at being generalists. The most efficient and effective robots have been purpose-built to do one specific task very, very well. This is why we have Roombas and not Rosies, and it's why robotic telemedicine ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a new report that documents early challenges and lessons learned in the development of the SSL market. Entitled Solid-State Lighting: Early Lessons Learned on the Way to Market, it ...
Tags: led, energy, fluorescent lamps, CFLs
Dark Horse range to debut at NY Toy Fair Two new lines of Game of Thrones figures are on the way from Funko and Dark Horse. Funko's Legacy Collection of higly articulated figures will be available exclusively in Barnes & Noble stores, ...
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There is more to seasonal allergies than a little congestion and sneezing. If you notice eating watermelon, cantaloupe or avocado make you cough and itch, it may be a symptom of ragweed allergy. But more help might be on the way for some of ...
Russia's gasoline and naphtha exports rose in January, as the cheaper ruble versus the US dollar made export netbacks more attractive, trading sources said. According to Energy Ministry figures, 384,370 mt of gasoline were exported in ...
IBM will house its email, communication and collaboration products in its Connections suite, whose scope until now has been limited to enterprise social networking software. This means that the Connections bundle will include the ...
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The new Chrome app features a virtual tool kit, allowing users to drag different sizes, shapes and colours of LEGO bricks into place on a blank base board. With a film on the way and numerous partnerships in the pipeline, including the ...
The UK retail industry is signing up to a range of ambitious targets for reducing its impact on the environment, having beaten the previous set across all areas. Commitments to be announced at A Better Retailing Climate launch event ...