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Maestro Fights His Corner Bringing Boxing To Opera
A music expert at Kingston University is hoping to deliver a knockout production after being given the go-ahead to develop a major opera about boxing. Dr Howard Fredrics has been awarded almost £5,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Board to create The Whitechapel Whirlwind, based on... view more (2004-05-19)

CU-Boulder researchers forecast 3-in-5 chance of record low Arctic sea ice in 2008
New University of Colorado at Boulder calculations indicate the record low minimum extent of sea ice across the Arctic last September has a three-in-five chance of being shattered again in 2008 because of continued warming temperatures and a preponderance of younger, thinner ice.   view more (2008-05-01)

Room temperature superconductivity
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have for the first time identified a key component to unravelling the mystery of room temperature superconductivity, according to a paper published in today's edition of the scientific journal Nature.   view more (2008-07-10)

New understanding of basic units of memory
A molecular "recycling plant" permits nerve cells in the brain to carry out two seemingly contradictory functions - changeable enough to record new experiences, yet permanent enough to maintain these memories over time.   view more (2007-09-20)

Stretchable silicon could be next wave in electronics
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a fully stretchable form of single-crystal silicon with micron-sized, wave-like geometries that can be used to build high-performance electronic devices on rubber substrates.   view more (2005-12-16)

Shrinking magnetic storage media down to the nanoscale
In the world of electronic and magnetic devices, the goal is to get smaller.   view more (2006-03-14)

Arctic sea ice hits second-lowest extent, likely lowest volume, say CU-Boulder researchers
Arctic sea ice extent during the 2008 melt season dropped to the second-lowest level since satellite measurements began in 1979, reaching the lowest point in its annual cycle of melt and growth on Sept. 14.   view more (2008-10-03)

Origins of Life
The origin of life lies in unique ocean reefs, and scientists from the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science have developed an approach to help investigate them better.   view more (2006-11-20)

CERN and Caltech set new world record for Internet performance
A team from CERN* and Caltech has set a new Internet2** Land Speed Record by transferring data across nearly 11,000 kilometres at an average rate of 6.25 gigabits per second (Gbps), nearly 10,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection, from Los Angeles, USA, to Geneva, Switzerland.... view more (2004-04-21)

US cancer mortality continues decline but incidence rises slightly for women
Overall rates of cancer death for both men and women have declined in the United States, and cancer incidence has remained stable among men.   view more (2005-10-05)

Closing holes in heart important treatment for young stroke patients, study says
Placement of devices to close holes in the heart is a successful treatment for young stroke patients, finds a study involving three medical centers.   view more (2006-05-18)

MIT researchers map city by cellphone
Researchers at MIT may not be able to hear your cellphone call, but they have found a way to see it. They mapped a city in real time by tracking tens of thousands of people traveling about carrying cellphones.   view more (2005-09-15)

UCSB researcher leads worldwide study on marine fossil diversity
It took a decade of painstaking study, the cooperation of hundreds of researchers, and a database of more than 200,000 fossil records, but John Alroy thinks he's disproved much of the conventional wisdom about the diversity of marine fossils and extinction rates.   view more (2008-07-11)

Experimental bus-tram on test
In 2003, an experimental 24-metre-long bus with independent control and drive to all its axles will be introduced in the Dutch city of Eindhoven. NWO's Technology Foundation STW is financing research at Eindhoven University of Technology into a sophisticated electronic guidance system. This will... view more (2001-07-26)

Smithsonian's National Zoo researchers use electronic eggs to help save threatened species
This is an important summer for kori bustards at the Smithsonian's National Zoo. Four chicks of this threatened African bird have hatched in June and July.   view more (2007-07-27)

Software-defined radio simplifies mobile phones
Mobile phones are getting more and more complicated. One reason is that a new radio is needed for each standard-GSM, 3G, and WLAN. A simpler solution, a radio that can be programmed to cover all standards, is now being developed at the Stringent Research Center at Linköping University in... view more (2004-04-19)

Specialist information for emergency care staff now a mouse click away
A one-stop information shop for emergency care staff managed by the Emergency Medicine Research Group at the University of Warwick - the National electronic Library for Health (NeLH) is now on line, the NHS Information Authority announced this week.   view more (2001-11-28)

Researchers at UC-Santa Barbara have built the world's first mode-locked silicon evanescent laser
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have announced they have built the world's first mode-locked silicon evanescent laser, a significant step toward combining lasers and other key optical components with the existing electronic capabilities in silicon.   view more (2007-08-22)

Researchers make new electronics -- with a twist
They've made electronics that can bend. They've made electronics that can stretch. And now, they've reached the ultimate goal -- electronics that can be subjected to any complex deformation, including twisting.   view more (2008-11-20)

UC San Diego Physicists Reveal Secrets of Newest Form of Carbon
Using one of the world's most powerful sources of man-made radiation, physicists from UC San Diego, Columbia University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have uncovered new secrets about the properties of graphene-a form of pure carbon that may one day replace the silicon in computers,... view more (2008-06-11)

Scientists design a tool for detection of rogue molecules “on the run”
A research group of the Microtechnology Centre at Chalmers, MC2, at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden, has developed an ultra-sensitive device for detecting the presence of organic molecules present in space. Organic material as far away from us as many thousands of light... view more (2002-04-16)

Man winks and the computer thinks
To some extent, computers can speak and hear. But seeing is another matter, for the instantaneous interpretation of film sequences requires the processing of huge volumes of data. Visitors to CeBIT can take part in a computer game as a virtual controller. For computer fans and cineastes,... view more (2004-02-26)

UC Davis researchers move biotechnology closer to replacing electronic pacemakers
UC Davis researchers have successfully used a custom designed protein and gene delivery system to restore normal heart rhythms in pigs with electronic pacemakers, reducing their dependence on implanted devices.   view more (2006-08-23)

Electronic tongue as oil tester
In the early days of mass motoring, in the 1950s, a car became due for inspection and oil change roughly every 3,000 kilometers. Since then, improvements to car engines and oils have lengthened this interval to around 30,000 kilometers, and it is likely to increase still further: to three times... view more (2003-05-22)

New special needs technologies showcased
Exciting new worlds are being opened up by putting together the technologies of electronic music, special needs, therapy and the arts, and the technologies which help people make the greatest use of the movement they are capable of. And the Special Needs Technology 2000 conference at the University... view more (1999-10-26)

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