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Alex Muller
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Google to kill iGoogle, Google Video and others in latest spring cleaning
Google has added a few more entries to its services death list. Newly-crowned Google CEO Larry Page has made of point of pushing his...
First vein grown from human stem cells successfully transplanted into a young girl
First came bladders. Then pulmonary arteries. Followed by urethras, arteriovenous shunts and tracheas. Now, in another first for the world of tissue-engineered body parts, Swedish...
Ford predicts self driving, traffic reducing cars by 2017
The technology concept, known as Traffic Jam Assist, uses adaptive cruise control, lane keep assist, and the sensors from its active park assist. While...
Apes With Apps
Have you ever watched a toddler play with an iPhone? Most likely, the child was completely captivated and surprisingly adept at manipulating the tiny...
Study: Apple Siri is wrong over one third of the time
According to a Piper Jaffray study cited by Forbes earlier this week, the investment firm conducted an extensive test of Siri’s accuracy both on a...
Physicists produce highest man made temperature: 7 trillion degrees
Physicists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have smashed gold ions together to produce a quark-gluon plasma like that which existed in the first instant after...
Black boxes would monitor every online information flow including social media and emails
Internet privacy issues are again in the spotlight as a controversial bill is debated in London’s Parliament. Its adoption will allow the UK government to...
How to create living tissues with 3D printed vascular networks made from sugar
Researchers are hopeful such new advances in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine could one day make a replacement liver from a patient’s own cells, or...
Micron agrees $2.5bn deal to buy Japanese rival Elpida
Once completed, the deal will see Micron become the world’s second-largest maker of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips. These chips are key components...
Laser activated nanoparticles produce medicine inside the body on demand
MIT and University of British Columbia scientists have created a new method of treating disease using tiny capsules containing not drugs — but the DNA...