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Smarter Planet Leadership Series: Air Canada
Air Canada wanted something to make things a little easier for their customers, and using technology from IBM was able to offer self service. Check out this white paper to hear more about how IBM...
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Particles move faster than light?
Scientists at Cern have reported the apparent discovery of particles traveling faster than the speed of light.
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Cern hopes to prove more dimensions exist
Scientists at the Cern laboratory in Switzerland have said that the Atlas research project may prove the existence of extra dimensions and the Higgs Boson as early as next year.
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Large Hadron Collider hits milestone: Smashes protons at highest energy level yet
The Large Hadron Collider overcame some early electrical hurdles and operated at its highest energy level yet as it collected data from smashing protons together.
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A 70 TB tape cartridge: too much, too late?
IBM and Fujifilm have demonstrated a technology that, if productized, could give us a 70 TB tape cartridge. Is tape dead - or merely sleeping?
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A telescope in a cubic kilometer of ice
University of Delaware (UD) scientists and engineers are currently working at South Pole under very harsh conditions. This research team is one of the many other ones working on the construction...
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Large Hadron Collider powers up
The world's largest machine will switch on for the biggest scientific experiment of the 21st century on Wednesday morning.
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Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testing
In a tunnel under the Franco-Swiss border, the world's most powerful particle accelerator passed its final test run before its full-fledged attempt on September 10.
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Nanospheres moving faster than light?
In recent years, I don't think I've spent a month without a report about a new way to exceed the speed of light. Yesterday, University of Pennsylvania researchers announced a theoretical way to...
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BU astronomer sings about black holes, does cutting edge research
REALITY ABUSE (Words & Music by A. Marscher ©2003) 1. We search for a description of reality that fits our macroscopic mentality Strip the world down to its finest scales, but that where normal...
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Janus particles as body submarines?
Janus particles, which take their name from a Roman god with two faces, are microscopic 'two-faced' spheres whose halves are physically or chemically different. Now, U.S. researchers have shown...
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Nanoemulsion vaccines effective against HIV?
Nanoemulsions are non-toxic lipid droplets approved for human consumption and common food substances that are defined as 'Generally Recognized as Safe' (GRAS) by the FDA. But they also can be used...
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A scientific Oscar goes to Stanford
On February 9, 2008, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will give its ten Scientific and Technical Academy Awards for the year. One of them will go to a professor of computer science...
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Building 3-D particles with light
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have used ultraviolet light to create mass-producing 3-D microparticles that could be used for medical diagnostics and tissue...
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Remotely controlled nanoparticles fight tumors
Many researchers around the world have tried to use nanoparticles to battle cancer. Now, researchers from the MIT have gone a step further. They found a way to 'talk' with the nanoparticles. In...
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All your hard drive are belong to us
Two California innovators cried foul when major hard drive and PC manufacturers started making billions off using their ceramic bonding invention, a critical tool needed to make these types of...
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IBM prints with molecules
Researchers have devised a way to print patterns with molecules, precisely arranging particles on a template that can be used like a rubber stamp.
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Nuking cancer cells with alpha particles?
Radiotherapy is widely used to fight cancers. Today, only beta particles are approved by health regulators, such as the U.S. FDA. Beta particles are small and travel fast, but it takes thousands...
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Nanotechnology boosts solar cells performance
Physicists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have improved the performance of solar cells by 60 percent. And they obtained this spectacular result by using a very simple...
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Besieged by HP's derogations, laser printer emissions whistleblower fights back
Meet Queensland University of Technology's Professor Lidia Morawski. She's the researcher that, by sheer chance, discovered that certain laser printers including a bunch from HP were emitting an...
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ZDNet reader: If Carbon Black were really that carcinogenic, we'd all be dead
At least one ZDNet reader thinks that the laser printer emissions issue that I've been covering is much ado about nothing. On the heels of the publication of an Australian study that found...
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