Researchers from the FOM Institute AMOLF and the University of Pennsylvania have fabricated a material which gives visible light a nearly infinite wavelength. The new metamaterial is made by stacking silver and silicon nitride ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 13, 2013
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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have developed a new way to parse and understand how special proteins called "master regulators" read the genome, and consequently turn genes on and ...
Biotechnology
Oct 13, 2013
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Researchers at McMaster University are addressing the crisis in drug resistance with a novel approach to find new antibiotics.
Biochemistry
Oct 13, 2013
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Iran is planning to send another live monkey into space within a month, a top space official said in remarks reported by media Sunday.
Space Exploration
Oct 13, 2013
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Just before graduating from the University of Michigan, Calvin Schemanski began his start-up.
Business
Oct 13, 2013
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Winning the Nobel Prize for Economics brings great prestige, but there is no guarantee the recipient will win over policymakers, the real practitioners of the dismal science.
Economics & Business
Oct 13, 2013
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From Silicon Valley to the South Pacific, counterattacks to revelations of widespread National Security Agency surveillance are taking shape, from a surge of new encrypted email programs to technology that sprinkles the Internet ...
Internet
Oct 13, 2013
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The University of the West Indies' Seismic Research Center is reporting an earthquake hit Friday night northwest of Trinidad.
Earth Sciences
Oct 13, 2013
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Yahoo said Saturday that it acquired tech company Bread, a URL shortner that allows users to design then target advertisments to readers who click on their links.
Business
Oct 13, 2013
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Flood-prone Venice on Saturday carried out the first test of its 5.4 billion euro ($7.3 billion) barrier system known as "Moses", designed to protect the Renaissance city from rising sea levels.
Environment
Oct 13, 2013
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