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ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News


Stamping out low cost nanodevices

Posted: 31 May 2011 12:53 PM PDT

A team of engineers has developed a rapid and low-cost imprinting process that can stamp out a variety of devices that have unique optical, electrical, chemical and mechanical properties.

'Dead' galaxies aren't so dead after all

Posted: 31 May 2011 12:53 PM PDT

Astronomers examined old galaxies and were surprised to discover that they are still making new stars. The results provide insights into how galaxies evolve with time.

Cell phones and cancer: Assessment classifies radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans

Posted: 31 May 2011 10:31 AM PDT

A new World Health Organization report classifies radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans, based on an increased risk for glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer, associated with wireless phone use.

Working toward sending humans to Mars

Posted: 31 May 2011 08:54 AM PDT

What would it take to send astronauts to Mars? A team of aeronautical and textile engineering students believe part of the solution may lie in advanced textile materials. The students joined forces to tackle life-support challenges that the aerospace industry has been grappling with for decades.

Researchers create nanoscale waveguide for future photonics

Posted: 31 May 2011 08:53 AM PDT

The creation of a new quasiparticle called the "hybrid plasmon polariton" may throw open the doors to integrated photonic circuits and optical computing for the 21st century. Researchers have demonstrated the first true nanoscale waveguides for next generation on-chip optical communication systems.

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