What Bitcoin Is, and Why It Matters Can a booming "crypto-currency" really compete with conventional cash?

What Bitcoin Is, and Why It Matters Can a booming "crypto-currency" really compete with conventional cash?

  10:53:00 AM    Science Lover

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Recent weeks have been exciting for a relatively new kind of currency speculator. In just three weeks, the total value of a unique new digital currency called Bitcoin has jumped four times, to over $40 million. Credit: Science n Technology Updates Bitcoin is underwritten...

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Sony Sets Its Sights on Augmented Reality The future of mobile gaming will merge the virtual and real worlds.

Sony Sets Its Sights on Augmented Reality The future of mobile gaming will merge the virtual and real worlds.

  10:14:00 AM    Science Lover

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Sony has demonstrated a new augmented reality system called Smart AR that can be built into the company's future gaming devices. Credit: Sony Corporation Augmented reality involves mapping virtual objects onto a view of the real world, usually as seen through the...

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Biological Circuits for Synthetic Biology

Biological Circuits for Synthetic Biology

  1:14:00 AM    Science Lover

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"If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own," said Wes "Scoop" Nisker. Taking a page from the book of San Francisco radio legend Scoop Nisker, biologists who find themselves dissatisfied with the microbes nature has provided are going out and making...

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Researchers Create Nanopatch for the Heart

Researchers Create Nanopatch for the Heart

  12:45:00 AM    Science Lover

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Engineers at Brown University and in India have a promising new approach to treating heart-attack victims. The researchers created a nanopatch with carbon nanofibers and a polymer. In laboratory tests, natural heart-tissue cell density on the nanoscaffold was six times...

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Record Efficiency of 18.7 Percent for Flexible Solar Cells on Plastics, Swiss Researchers Report

Record Efficiency of 18.7 Percent for Flexible Solar Cells on Plastics, Swiss Researchers Report

  1:09:00 PM    Science Lover

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Scientists at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have further boosted the energy conversion efficiency of flexible solar cells made of copper indium gallium (di)selenide (also known as CIGS) to a new world record of 18.7 percent...

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Japan's 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake: Surprising Findings About Energy Distribution Over Fault Slip and Stress Accumulation

Japan's 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake: Surprising Findings About Energy Distribution Over Fault Slip and Stress Accumulation

  9:34:00 PM    Science Lover

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When the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake and resulting tsunami struck off the northeast coast of Japan on March 11, they caused widespread destruction and death. Using observations from a dense regional geodetic network (allowing measurements of earth movement...

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Dark Energy Is Driving Universe Apart: NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Finds Dark Energy Repulsive

Dark Energy Is Driving Universe Apart: NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Finds Dark Energy Repulsive

  8:53:00 PM    Science Lover

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A five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time, has led to one of the best independent confirmations that dark energy is driving our universe apart at accelerating speeds. New results from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer and...

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Diamond Aerogel: New Form of Diamond Is Lighter Than Ever

Diamond Aerogel: New Form of Diamond Is Lighter Than Ever

  8:26:00 PM    Science Lover

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By combining high pressure with high temperature, Livermore researchers have created a nanocyrstalline diamond aerogel that could improve the optics for something as big as a telescope or as small as the lenses in eyeglasses. A diamond aerogel has been hammered out...

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Bringing a Whole New Meaning to 'High-Speed Internet'

Bringing a Whole New Meaning to 'High-Speed Internet'

  8:11:00 PM    Science Lover

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Researchers push a staggering 100 terabits of data per second through an optical fiber. Faster broadband needed (Image: Ray Tang/Rex Features) Talk about fast. Researchers have recently reported sending over 100 terabits of information per second through an optical...

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Striking Ecological Impact on Canada's Arctic Coastline Linked to Global Climate Change

Striking Ecological Impact on Canada's Arctic Coastline Linked to Global Climate Change

  1:16:00 PM    Science Lover

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Scientists from Queen's and Carleton universities head a national multidisciplinary research team that has uncovered startling new evidence of the destructive impact of global climate change on North America's largest Arctic delta. Dead vegetation killed by the 1999...

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Sections of Retinas Regenerated and Visual Function Increased With Stem Cells from Skin

Sections of Retinas Regenerated and Visual Function Increased With Stem Cells from Skin

  1:02:00 PM    Science Lover

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Scientists from Schepens Eye Research Institute are the first to regenerate large areas of damaged retinas and improve visual function using IPS cells (induced pluripotent stem cells) derived from skin. The results of their study, which is published in PLoS ONE this...

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'Master Switch' Gene for Obesity and Diabetes Discovered

'Master Switch' Gene for Obesity and Diabetes Discovered

  11:56:00 AM    Science Lover

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A team of researchers, led by King's College London and the University of Oxford, have found that a gene linked to type 2 diabetes and cholesterol levels is in fact a 'master regulator' gene, which controls the behaviour of other genes found within fat in the body. Scientists...

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