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Can Bees Be Trained to Sniff Out Cancer?

29/12/2013 13:49

December 13, 2013 Some insects, such as bees, have a sense of smell so acutely sensitive that they can locate the faintest of odors in a room, even if it consists of only a few molecules. But scientists are particularly intrigued by the fact that these bugs can even be...

Roboticists Create Rover To Move And Drill On The Moon

29/12/2013 13:46

Engineers and robiticists created a robot to explore the moon. Running on the same amount of power as a 100-watt light bulb the rover uses heat from radiation to support its sensors, movement, and drill. It can move about five inches a second and work in harsh conditions to analyze the...

Producing Electricity On the Moon at Night

29/12/2013 13:43

Scientists from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and other international collaborators have proposed a system of mirrors, processed lunar soil and a heat engine to provide energy to vehicles and crew during the lunar night. This would preclude the need for batteries and nuclear power sources...

Companion's Comets the Key to Curious Exoplanet System?

29/12/2013 13:40

The nearby star Fomalhaut A hosts the most famous planetary system outside our own Solar System, containing both an exoplanet and a spectacular ring of comets. Today, an international team of astronomers announced a new discovery with the Herschel Space Observatory that has made this system even...

New Data Compression Method Reduces Big-Data Bottleneck; Outperforms, Enhances JPEG

29/12/2013 13:40

In creating an entirely new way to compress data, a team of researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has drawn inspiration from physics and the arts. The result is a new data compression method that outperforms existing techniques, such as JPEG for images,...

Graphene-Based Field-Effect Transistor With Semiconducting Nature Opens Up Practical Use in Electronics

29/12/2013 13:37

UNIST announced a method for the mass production of boron/nitrogen co-doped graphene nanoplatelets, which led to the fabrication of a graphene-based field-effect transistor (FET) with semiconducting nature. This opens up opportunities for practical use in electronic devices. A...

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