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Researchers at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory led by Professor of physics Pengcheng Dai claim to know the cause of superconductivity. The team’s work, published at Boston College (PDF), details how special subatomic vibrations in crystal latices dubbed phonons bind the electrons together magnetically, and thus allow superconduction.

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Researchers have designed a product that its inventors claim could easily produce between 15 and 20 times the total electricity the world uses today

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The 14.3-inch E-paper display, which is equivalent in size to an A4 sheet of paper, represents a significant improvement over its predecessors with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, and the ability to display 16.7 million colors, making it suitable for use in high-end multimedia applications. These displays are extremely energy efficient, only using power when the image changes. Additionally, the displays are extremely thin, at less than 300 micrometers.

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The new 832GB SSD is a part of BiTMICRO’s E-Disk Altima family and uses multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory to increase storage densities. BiTMICRO claims that the drive will “deliver sustained rates of up to 100 MB per second and up to 20,000 I/O operations per second.”

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Researchers develop ultrasound surgical instruments that require no cutting

Anyone that has undergone surgery will tell you that the smaller the incision the less pain and the faster the recovery time. The ideal solution would be the ability to treat surgically without needing to cut into a patient at all.

As farfetched as though sounds, it is not an uncommon process. For instance, doctors have been using ultrasound waves for years to break kidney stones into sand like material that can be passed out of the body without requiring surgical intervention.

A biomedical engineer named Charles Cain from the University of Michigan has developed a new technique using ultrasound waves called histotripsy. This technique uses focused ultrasound waves 100 times more powerful than the ultrasound waves used for medical imaging during pregnancy/

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Boeing is working on a devastating new weapon which could strike fear into the eyes of all American enemies. The company is progressing at a rapid pace on its 12,000-pound airborne laser.

The Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) was installed into a C-130H gunship and Boeing is on track to begin in-flight tests of the weapon next year. Ground targets will be neutralized via the ATL which is incorporated into a rotating turret on the C-130H’s belly.

The ATL is seen as a precise, high-power weapon that will result in less civilian causalities on the battlefield. Due to the nature of the laser being used, targets can be destroyed or disabled with extremely low levels of collateral damage. Boeing claims that the ATL is thus capable of being used on traditional battlefields or in more treacherous urban fighting.

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Chinese scientists with the Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey have made a major discovery which may provide a major source of future fuel. When dig a core sample out of the ocean floor in the deep waters of the South China Sea. The scientists were astonished when they held a small flame to the sample and it ignited, burning with a yellowish-red flame.

The leaders of the expedition Shengxiong Yang and Nengyou Wu realized were all smiles when they returned to port an announced their discovery — a wealth of sea floor methane hydrate.

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“If I proposed such a design, our company would never approve it,” said one of the engineers.

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Nice article about nVidia’s ESA platform

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Tech firm Emotiv developed the advanced mind-controlled gaming device. The device, titled “The Epoc,” will retail for $299 and provide advanced control by reading electrical signals generated among the brain. Among its key features is its ability to detect over 30 facial expressions, emotions and actions based on these signals.

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Researchers at Stanford have created a new camera chip that can see in 3D that could lead to better images, especially at higher ISO settings where grain is a big issue. Anyone who shoots with a digital camera that offers adjustable ISO settings has seen the noticeable grain that shows up in images. The quality of the camera will affect how high the ISO setting can go before grainy images are a significant issue.

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Stem cells carry high hopes to help treat and possibly cure a myriad of diseases. However, the use of stem cells is a subject of great debate do to the fact that the best source for stem cells for use in this type of research is from human embryos.

Reuters reports that researchers from California-based Novocell Inc. recently used human embryonic stem cells to treat diabetes in mice. The stem cells were implanted into mice and were turned into “nearly” normal insulin-producing cells in the mice.

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A computer does better than a doctor at diagnosing certain brain diseases, research has suggested.

Experts taught a standard computer how to diagnose Alzheimer’s from brain scans, and got a 96% success rate.
The accuracy of diagnosis from standard scans, blood tests and interviews carried out by a clinician is 85%.