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Scientists Create World’s First Laser Pacemaker [Lasers]

Scientists have successfully controlled a living creature's heart with a laser beam, taking a first step towards technology that would prevent serious heart defects. The procedure used pulses of light to pace the guts of a two-day old quail embryo. The research team, headed by Michael Jenkins at Case Western Reserve University, stuck a small laser ...

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Citizen Scientists Discover Pulsars in Deep Space [Space]

While your computer is running idle, it is usually finding new pulsars and black holes in deep space-almost like the computers of three volunteers running a program called Einstein@Home. Three volunteers running the distributed computing program Einstein@Home have discovered a new pulsar within the data from the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope. Their computers, one in Iowa ...

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Scientists Discover Star 300 Times More Massive Than The Sun [Space]

Astronomers have identified essentially the most massive stars known. These objects are millions of times brighter than our Sun and the biggest of them all is a whoppin\' 300 times the mass of our favorite star. The stars were discovered in two clusters-NGC 3603 and RMC 136a-and researchers used a \" combination of instruments on the ...

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Scientists Crack Mona Lisa’s Secret By X-Raying Her [Art]

Apparently, everyone has long been baffled by how Leonardo da Vinci created such subtle shadows and light on the Mona Lisa. So much so that scientists X-rayed the painting to discover his technique. Scientists have discovered that da Vinci used a well known renaissance painting technique known as sfumato. For the non art historians among us, ...

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Scientists Discover the First Planet With a Tail [Astronomy]

Scientists have discovered the first cometary planet, one with a huge tail, a stream of gas being ripped off by solar winds at 22,000 miles per hour. This jovian world is located 153 light-years from Earth. The planet-called HD 209458b-orbits 100 times closer to its home star than our Jovian neighbor, traveling in an astonishingly fast ...

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Count your heart beat from a meter away

Scientists at the University of Sussex claim that they could very well usher in a future without clinical electrodes, where the non-contact electric potential sensor (EPS) will be able to allow patients to have their heartbeats monitored from a meter away. Apart from that, they can relax in their hospital bed or home, with other potential applications comprising of MRI sensing probes, human-machine interfaces, non-destructive testing systems and ECG and EEG monitoring systems. Heck, the EPS is sensitive enough to detect muscle signals and eye movements with the potential for checking out even brain and nerve signals.

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Graphene could be the next big flexible conductor

Graphene is a relatively new material that offers outstanding electrical, chemical and mechanical properties which in turn makes it a suitable material to see action as a flexible conductor in various electronic devices including touch screen panels and flat panel TVs. Past attempts to make large films of graphene have proved as elusive as churning out adamantium in the comics, but a team of scientists from South Korea and Japan recently managed to hit the jackpot when it comes to roll-to-roll production of graphene films, where they are grown using chemical vapor deposition onto flexible copper substrates. Flexible display is looking to have a great future with such developments.

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M3-Kindy and Noby: Japan gets two scary kid robots (video)

Remember M3-neony and M3-synchy, two humanoid robots from Japan we’ve shown you back in March? Well, it seems Japan still doesn’t have enough of creepy kid-like robots, as the so-called JST Erato Asada Project in Osaka today unveiled [JP] another two: M3-Kindy and Noby.

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Michael Grätzel, inventor of the dye-sensitized solar cell, wins 2010 Millennium Technology Prize (video)

In 1991, a pair of scientists published a paper in Nature, detailing a intriguing new discovery: the dye-sensitized solar cell. Today, one of them won €800,000 for his efforts, and the 2010 Millennium Technology Prize. Michael Grätzel accepted the award for the low-cost solar cells that often bear his name, and which make possible the sunglasses, windows and iPhone patents we seem to spot every few days. Hear the good professor speak about his invention in a video after the break.

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Heartbeats could power medical implants

Currently, medical implants in one’s body often requires a battery of sorts to keep it going, but what happens when those said implants run out of juice? Boffins at Georgia Tech are currently giving the Muscle-Driven In Vivo Nanogenerator idea a go on lab rats, where a tiny nanowire will be used to convert the motion of flexing muscles into electric current using piezoelectric energy. While the amount of juice generated is negligible at the moment, said group of scientists are working to bunch together an array of nanowires so that one’s movement is able to generate enough electricity to run a pacemaker. Hopefully the efficiency level of such a device will be insanely high, otherwise during the better 8 hours of a day when someone spends sleeping, there will be minimal movement which might not be enough generate electricity.

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Gigabyte, ASUS and MSI deliver driver software to allow iPad charging from the PC

You one of those unlucky folks who found out about the iPad’s dislike of low-powered USB ports on standard PCs after you’d already pulled the trigger? Well, you can stop crying yourself to sleep nights and finally do something about it: Gigabyte, MSI, and ASUS have all come out with software that hops up their respective, fairly interchangeable motherboards and delivers extra juice to an iPad-plugged USB port. Of course, they built these softwares for their own hardware, but there’s a video after the break of a reckless user putting the ASUS software to work on a myriad of non-ASUS (mostly Sony) machines. Your mileage may vary, but if you wanna play it safe we’d say look into who built your motherboard before installing: we’re not scientists, but we hear extra electricity “does stuff.”

[Thanks, Jeff F.]

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Anti-terror spy cameras in the works

Scientists have recently tested ground-breaking technologies that could potentially stop, or at least disrupt terrorist activities. How so? Well, this new sensor and data-processing systems is involved within an airborne surveillance experiment, where it can track the movement of terrorists, especially those who rely on improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Should this new batch of spy cameras work as intended, it could very well help save numerous lives in future wars. This is more or less an extension of a CCTV system, but goes one up by being smart enough to weed out those in unusual poses including holding a weapon.

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