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Alex Muller
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New nanostructure for batteries keeps going and going
Now a team led by materials scientist Yi Cui of Stanford and SLAC has found a solution: a cleverly designed double-walled nanostructure that lasts more...
Toothless No More Researchers Using Stem Cells to Grow New Teeth
It may be hard to remember what it was like to lose a tooth as a child, but many adults get an unpleasant reminder as...
Psychopathy linked to brain abnormalities
New research provides the strongest evidence to date that psychopathy is linked to specific structural abnormalities in the brain. The study, led by researchers at...
Inflatable space stations are getting real thanks to SpaceX, Bigelow
SpaceX is busy gearing up for a date with the International Space Station, but the company now has a second invite to one that doesn’t...
10 current technologies directly inspired by science fiction
In fact, many of the technologies we currently possess originally started as concepts in scifi. From such common things that we take for granted like...
Stem cell shield could protect cancer patients
Chemotherapy drugs try to kill rapidly dividing cancer cells, but they can also affect other healthy tissues such as bone marrow. A study, in...
Dutch court bans Pirate Party links to The Pirate Bay
The ruling by a court in the Hague follows a complaint by the anti-piracy group Brein. It had said that the political party was...
Free floating planets in the Milky Way outnumber stars by factors of thousands
The scientists have proposed that these life-bearing planets originated in the early Universe within a few million years of the Big Bang, and that they...
Light From Small, Oozing Alien Planet Seen
Light from an alien "super-Earth" twice the size of our own Earth has been detected by a NASA space telescope for the first time in...
Report: Apple HDTV will have FaceTime camera, Siri and AirPlay
Nobody knows for sure anymore if Apple’s rumored Siri-powered HDTV/iTV will see the light of day by the end of the year. That hasn’t stopped...