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January 7, 2009 Last updated: 50 minutes ago

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HDTV without wires

If you have one of those flat screen HDTV sets, you probably love the sleek form factor, but hate the ugly cables spreading all over the place.

Invisibility Closer to Reality

Metamaterials are an exotic class of materials, whose properties are due to their structure rather than their composition.

Broadcom announces 3G "Phone on a Chip"

Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), announced a new single-chip processor that integrates all of the key 3G (third generation) cellular and mobile technologies on an extremely low power, single CMOS...

Technology

Offering New HOPE in the Balance Of Security and Civil Liberties

Data analytics gives law enforcement and intelligence agencies powerful tools that still protect privacy and civil liberties.

Construction Materials

Bricks made from coal-fired power plant waste pass safety test

Bricks made from coal-fired power plant waste (fly ash).

Technology

Sniffing Out a Better Chemical Sensor

Marrying a sensitive detector technology capable of distinguishing hundreds of different chemical compounds with a pattern-recognition module that mimics the way animals recognize odors, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have created a new approach for “electronic noses.”

The Shape of Things to Come

Flexible web of micro-sensors enables eye-shaped camera, heralds new class of electronics technology that can conform to almost any shape

Record-setting Laser May Aid Searches for Earthlike Planets

Scientists at the University of Konstanz (Germany) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (United States), have demonstrated an ultrafast laser that offers a record combination of high speed, short pulses and high average power. The new laser is expected to have a range of applications from gas sensors to communications, but in particular, say researchers, it could boost the sensitivity of astronomical tools searching for other Earthlike planets as much as 100 fold.

NRL Scientists Demonstrate Efficient Electrical Spin Injection into Silicon

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory have efficiently injected a current of spin-polarized electrons from a ferromagnetic metal contact into silicon, producing a large electron spin polarization in the silicon. Silicon is by far the most widely used semiconductor in the device industry, and is the basis for modern electronics.

Metal Foam Has a Good Memory

In the world of commercial materials, lighter and cheaper is usually better, especially when those attributes are coupled with superior strength and special properties, such as a material's ability to remember its original shape after it's been deformed by a physical or magnetic force.

Mini Magnetic Sensor May Have Biomedical, Security Applications

A tiny sensor that can detect magnetic field changes as small as 70 femtoteslas has been demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Science

Familiar face? "Love" hormone may help, study says

LONDON (Reuters) - The "love" hormone linked to feelings of sexual pleasure, bonding and maternal care also appears to help us recognize familiar faces, Swiss researchers said on Tuesday.

Japan to monitor greenhouse gases from space

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's space agency will launch a satellite later this month to monitor greenhouse gases around the world, officials said Wednesday, hoping the data it collects helps global efforts to combat climate change.

Study backs deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deep brain stimulation dramatically improves Parkinson's disease symptoms such as trembling and slowness of movement, offering hope to many with the incurable ailment, researchers said on Tuesday.

Technology

Verizon says in mobile search deal with Microsoft

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc said it agreed to a mobile search deal with Microsoft Corp and that details will be announced later on Wednesday.

As laptops dominate, desktop PCs face obsolescence

TAIPEI (Reuters) - The age of the desktop PC appears to be over as its more portable cousin, the laptop, surges ahead with consumers clamoring for light-weight computers in funky designs for use at home, in cafes and on the train to work.

Intel warns again on fourth-quarter revenue

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microchip maker Intel Corp said on Wednesday its fourth-quarter revenue was likely worse than expected due to weaker global demand for personal computers, dragging its shares down more than 6 percent.

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