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- Water tractor beam: Complex waves generate flow patterns to manipulate floating objects
- Spectacular 3-D sketching system revolutionizes design interaction and collaboration
- Like cling wrap, new biomaterial can coat tricky burn wounds, block out infection
- Do women and men ride differently? Horses cannot tell the difference
- Grass really is greener on TV, computer screens, thanks to quantum dots
- Can a new species of frog have a doppelganger? Genetics say yes
- How fans mourn the death of popular TV series
- Diamonds are a quantum computer's best friend
| Water tractor beam: Complex waves generate flow patterns to manipulate floating objects Posted: 10 Aug 2014 06:42 PM PDT Physicists have created a tractor beam on water, providing a radical new technique that could confine oil spills, manipulate floating objects or explain rips at the beach. |
| Spectacular 3-D sketching system revolutionizes design interaction and collaboration Posted: 10 Aug 2014 06:36 PM PDT Collaborative three-dimensional sketching is now possible thanks to a system known as Hyve-3D. The system is a full scale immersive 3D environment. Users create drawings on hand-held tables. They can then use the tablets to manipulate the sketches to create a 3D design within the space. |
| Like cling wrap, new biomaterial can coat tricky burn wounds, block out infection Posted: 10 Aug 2014 09:42 AM PDT Wrapping wound dressings around fingers and toes can be tricky, but for burn victims, guarding them against infection is critical. Today, scientists are reporting the development of novel, ultrathin coatings called nanosheets that can cling to the body's most difficult-to-protect contours and keep bacteria at bay. The materials has to date been tested on mice. |
| Do women and men ride differently? Horses cannot tell the difference Posted: 08 Aug 2014 08:07 AM PDT Scientists have analyzed how horses are affected by the sex of their riders. Various parameters of stress were determined in horses and their riders when they covered an obstacle course. The results were surprising: the level of stress on a horse is independent of whether a man or a woman is in the saddle. Furthermore, the stress responses of male and female riders are essentially the same. |
| Grass really is greener on TV, computer screens, thanks to quantum dots Posted: 08 Aug 2014 08:00 AM PDT High-tech specks called quantum dots could bring brighter, more vibrant color to mass market TVs, tablets, phones and other displays. A new technology called 3M quantum dot enhancement film (QDEF) that efficiently makes liquid crystal display (LCD) screens more richly colored is described by an expert. |
| Can a new species of frog have a doppelganger? Genetics say yes Posted: 07 Aug 2014 09:21 AM PDT Two look-alike frogs were shown by researchers to be separate species through genetic analysis. Recently, a Malaysian herpetologist puzzled over an unfamiliar orange-striped, yellow-speckled frog she'd live-caught in swampland on the Malay Peninsula. She showed the frog to a fellow herpetologist pursuing his doctorate in the United States. They wondered -- was this striking frog with an appearance unlike others nearby in the central peninsula an unidentified species? |
| How fans mourn the death of popular TV series Posted: 07 Aug 2014 09:15 AM PDT New research shows what profound effect the loss of popular TV series has on loyal consumers. Sadness often occurs due to the demise of beloved characters and over the inability to know "what happens next." Also, some fans feel a strong sense of loss surrounding the collapse of their social network of watchers who participated in group viewing and discussion for years, researchers report. |
| Diamonds are a quantum computer's best friend Posted: 07 Aug 2014 07:52 AM PDT The quantum computer is not yet quite around the corner: calculations show that to implement a useful quantum algorithm, billions of quantum systems have to be used. The elements of a newly proposed quantum computer concept, nitrogen atoms trapped in diamonds, could in principle be miniaturized and mass produced. This system could be to quantum computing what the transistor was for microelectronics. |
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