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STEM CELLS Tiny fans to cool future electronics RESEARCH ENGINEERS at Purdue University are developing tiny, quiet fans that wiggle back and forth to help cool future laptop computers and other portable electronic gear. The devices remove heat by waving a small blade in alternate ... More Unique car engine RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS have found a way to obtain car gasoline out of natural gas, rather than crude oil. One gets the impression that the long-cherished dream of the world's chemists has thus come true. They have been trying to find a motor-oil ... More 
Smart magnetic fluidA SMART magnetic fluid called ferrofluid, which has outsmarted many other materials and heralded in a new role in the evolution of many technological applications has been discovered. Ferrofluids are colloidal suspensions of surfactant-coated ... More Odour eaters for pulp mills DRIVE BY a pulp and paper mill and one of the first things you'll almost certainly notice is the unmistakable smell. But give a University of Toronto engineering professor his way and you'll find the only thing assaulting your nose is ... ... More Replacing bar codes with holograms INVISIBLE HOLOGRAMS could replace bar codes in a bid to combat product counterfeiting, says a news report in New Scientist. Loughborough University spin-off Laser Optical Engineering says the idea is to etch holographic codes with an ... More Extinction rate reaches historical proportions HALF OF all living bird and mammal species will be gone within 200 or 300 years, according to a botany professor at The University of Texas at Austin. Although the extinction of various species is a natural phenomenon, the rate of extinction ... More
Next generation computers USEFUL QUANTUM computers are still at least years away; right now, the most advanced working medal can barely factor the number 15. The past decade have seen a flurry of advances, as physicists figure out how to use quantum information to ... More
SCIENTISTS FROM Cornell University and Seoul National University offer a precise explanation for vitamin C's anti-cancer activity. And they suggest that a natural chemical from apples works even better than vitamin C according to a report written ... More 
Perception is stored in a neuronSingle nerve cell in the brain is responsible for controlling our perception by drawing on prior experience. More Ribosome research could lead to effective drugs CONSIDER THIS: Staphylococcus aureus is a microbe that loves to infect wounds. It is already resistant to penicillin and can kill a human being if not treated. There is only one drug that can combat this microbe - Vancomycin. If the ... More Bone marrow cells help ailing heart In the new treatment a person's own bone marrow cells were used to improve blood flow in the coronary arteries. It is safe, reliable and could be an alternative treatment for those who cannot undergo a bypass or balloon angioplasty. More
EVERY TIME you take an international flight, you go through the ritual. The airline staff asks you: "Did you pack the bags yourself? Has anyone given you anything? Do you know the contents of every bag you carry?" and so on. You keep mumbling ... More
Fibre-glass beehive for honey productionAN INNOVATIVE engineer- turned professional and distinguished apiculturist in the Philippines, has designed a fibre-glass beehive, which has more advantages than the conventional wooden hives. ``The fibre-glass beehive has excellent thermal ... More Foliar fertilization in rice fallow blackgram FOLIAR FERTILIZATION is recognised as an important method of fertilization in modern agriculture. Foliar nutrients usually penetrate the cuticle of the leaf or the stomata and enter the cells. This method provides for utilisation of ... More
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