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- Wearable electronics:Transparent, lightweight, flexible conductor could revolutionize electronics industry
- Researchers combat global disease with a cell phone, Google Maps and a lot of ingenuity
- Bejeweled: Nanotech gets boost from nanowire decorations
- Intense light prevents, treats heart attacks
- Mathematics: First-ever image of a flat torus in 3-D
- What is the best way of stacking apples?
- Thinking in a foreign language helps economic decision-making
| Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:34 PM PDT The most transparent, lightweight and flexible material ever for conducting electricity has just been invented. Called GraphExeter, the material could revolutionize the creation of wearable electronic devices, such as clothing containing computers, phones and MP3 players. |
| Researchers combat global disease with a cell phone, Google Maps and a lot of ingenuity Posted: 27 Apr 2012 07:02 AM PDT Researchers have developed a compact and cost-effective RDT reader platform to combine digital reading of all existing rapid-diagnostic-tests. The team's new reader is installed on a cell phone that can work with various lateral flow immuno-chromatographic assays and similar tests to sense the presence of a target analyte in samples. |
| Bejeweled: Nanotech gets boost from nanowire decorations Posted: 27 Apr 2012 07:01 AM PDT Engineers have found a novel method for "decorating" nanowires with chains of tiny particles to increase their electrical and catalytic performance. The new technique is simpler, faster and more effective than earlier methods and could lead to better batteries, solar cells and catalysts. |
| Intense light prevents, treats heart attacks Posted: 25 Apr 2012 11:36 AM PDT There are lots of ways to treat a heart attack -- CPR, aspirin, clot-busters and more. Now researchers have found a new candidate: Intense light. The connection lies in the circadian rhythm, the body's clock that is linked to light and dark. |
| Mathematics: First-ever image of a flat torus in 3-D Posted: 25 Apr 2012 06:43 AM PDT Just as a terrestrial globe cannot be flattened without distorting the distances, it seemed impossible to visualize abstract mathematical objects called flat tori in ordinary three-dimensional space. However, a team of mathematicians and computer scientists has succeeded in constructing and visually representing an image of a flat torus in three-dimensional space. This is a smooth fractal, halfway between fractals and ordinary surfaces. |
| What is the best way of stacking apples? Posted: 25 Apr 2012 06:43 AM PDT When stacking apples on a market stall, fruit sellers "naturally" adopt a particular arrangement: a regular pyramid with a triangular base. Scientists have now demonstrated that this arrangement is favored for reasons of mechanical stability. This work could contribute to the design of organized porous materials. |
| Thinking in a foreign language helps economic decision-making Posted: 25 Apr 2012 06:39 AM PDT In a study with implications for businesspeople in a global economy, researchers have found that people make more rational decisions when they think through a problem in a non-native tongue. People are more likely to take favorable risks if they think in a foreign language, the new study showed. |
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