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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News


Top scientists ask UN leaders to act on nuclear weapons, climate change: Still 5 minutes to midnight and much too close to doomsday

Posted: 14 Jan 2014 11:55 AM PST

Scientists have called on the United States and Russia to restart negotiations on reducing their nuclear arsenals, to lower alert levels for their nuclear weapons, and to scrap their missile defense programs.

New patent mapping system helps find innovation pathways

Posted: 14 Jan 2014 11:54 AM PST

A new patent mapping system that considers how patents cite one another may help researchers better understand the relationships between technologies – and how they may come together to spur disruptive new areas of innovation.

Potential future data storage at domain boundaries

Posted: 14 Jan 2014 08:42 AM PST

Storing more and more in an ever-smaller space -- what sounds impossible is in fact just part of the daily routine in information technology, where for decades, increasing amounts of data have been successfully stored on media with ever higher densities. An international team has now discovered a physical phenomenon that could prove suitable for use in further data aggregation.

Researchers harness sun's energy during day for use at night

Posted: 14 Jan 2014 08:42 AM PST

Solar energy has long been used as a clean alternative to fossil fuels such as coal and oil, but it could only be harnessed during the day when the sun's rays were strongest. Now researchers have built a system that converts the sun's energy not into electricity but hydrogen fuel and stores it for later use, allowing us to power our devices long after the sun goes down.

CT scans could bolster forensic database to ID unidentified remains

Posted: 14 Jan 2014 07:30 AM PST

A study finds that data from CT scans can be incorporated into a growing forensic database to help determine the ancestry and sex of unidentified remains. The finding may also have clinical applications for craniofacial surgeons.

Even 25 metres below ground, positioning system tracks firefighters

Posted: 14 Jan 2014 06:17 AM PST

With sensor-equipped footwear firefighters can be even more effective at saving lives and property.

First plastic cell with working organelle

Posted: 14 Jan 2014 06:17 AM PST

For the first time, chemists have successfully produced an artificial cell containing organelles capable of carrying out the various steps of a chemical reaction.

Scientists develop a more efficient and economical solar cell based on graphene and perovskite

Posted: 14 Jan 2014 06:08 AM PST

Scientists have created and characterized a photovoltaic device based on a combination of titanium oxide and graphene as charge collector and perovskite as sunlight absorber. The device is manufactured at low temperatures and has a high efficiency.

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