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Study shows dried plums provide protection from bone loss due to radiation

Feb 23, 2016 (SPX)

Dr. Nancy Turner, a Texas A and M AgriLife Research scientist in College Station, was one of a team of researchers who recently studied different interventions ...

Real or virtual - can we tell the difference

Feb 23, 2016 (SPX)

A Dartmouth College-led study shows that people find it increasingly difficult to distinguish between computer-generated images and real photos, but that a smal...

Russian Space Intelligence Center to Receive New Radars

Feb 23, 2016 (Sputnik)

Russia's Main Space Intelligence Center, a component of the Aerospace Forces, will receive new radars, optical electronics and advanced means of technical surve...

Romania orders Lockheed Martin radar systems

Feb 22, 2016 (UPI)

Lockheed Martin is to supply Romania with TPS-77 long-range radar systems with energy efficient Digital Array Row Transceivers. The contract received by Lockhee...

Eternal 5D data storage could record the history of humankind

Feb 22, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions ...

Virtual reality promises to transform film

Feb 20, 2016 (AFP)

Chris Milk stepped onto a TED Conference stage and took the audience on an awe-inducing trip into the future of movies. While much of the early attention on vir...

Augmented reality looks to future where screens vanish

Feb 19, 2016 (AFP)

Microsoft inventor Alex Kipman was joined by holograms at a renowned TED gathering here on Thursday as he gave a glimpse into a future where computer screens ar...

TED crowd gets taste of virtual reality future

Feb 18, 2016 (AFP)

Clad in virtual reality headgear and computerized vests, intrepid explorers at the annual TED event headed Wednesday into a temple adventure reminiscent of a sc...

US, Spain to Jointly Monitor Outer Space Traffic

Feb 18, 2016 (Sputnik)

The United States and Spain have signed a memorandum agreeing to monitor space by sharing situational data, the US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) said in a press ...

Beyond diamonds and gems: The world's rarest minerals

Feb 17, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists have inventoried and categorized all of Earth's rare mineral species described to date, each sampled from five or fewer sites around the globe. Indiv...

Light used to measure the 'big stretch' in spider silk proteins

Feb 17, 2016 (SPX)

While working to improve a tool that measures the pushes and pulls sensed by proteins in living cells, biophysicists at Johns Hopkins say they've discovered one...

Leap Motion opens door to reach into virtual worlds

Feb 17, 2016 (AFP)

California virtual reality startup Leap Motion on Wednesday opened a door for makers of games or other applications to literally touch virtual worlds. The San F...

Engineering material magic

Feb 17, 2016 (SPX)

University of Utah engineers have discovered a new kind of 2D semiconducting material for electronics that opens the door for much speedier computers and smartp...

Shaping crystals with the flow

Feb 17, 2016 (SPX)

One of goals of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) is to foster collaboration between different disciplines. Recently, O...

Not your grandfather's house, but maybe it should be

Feb 17, 2016 (SPX)

Everyone wants a house to live in, and more and more, people around the world want the kinds of houses seen in Europe and North America, rather than those they ...

Russian Scientists Against Using Nuclear Weapons to Clear Space Debris

Feb 17, 2016 (Sputnik)

The use of nuclear weapons in order to clear space debris is meaningless, said the director of the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Federation Boris Shusto...

Patient wears 3-D glasses during brain surgery

Feb 17, 2016 (AFP)

In a world first, a patient in France undergoing brain surgery while conscious wore virtual reality glasses as doctors removed a cancerous tumour, the chief sur...

Saab's new GlobalEye radar integrated with Bombardier jet

Feb 16, 2016 (UPI)

Saab has introduced an early warning airborne surveillance system called GlobalEye. GlobalEye combines Saab's new Erieye extended range radar and mission contro...

Scientists prove feasibility of 'printing' replacement tissue

Feb 16, 2016 (SPX)

Using a sophisticated, custom-designed 3D printer, regenerative medicine scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have proved that it is feasible to pri...

Chemical cages: New technique advances synthetic biology

Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)

Living systems rely on a dizzying variety of chemical reactions essential to development and survival. Most of these involve a specialized class of protein mole...