10/06/2009

Beetle shell inspires brilliant white paper

An obscure species of beetle has shown how brilliant white paper could be produced in a completely new way. A team from Imerys Minerals Ltd. and the University of Exeter has taken inspiration from the shell of the Cyphochilus ...

Hatchery fish may hurt efforts to sustain wild salmon runs

Steelhead trout that are originally bred in hatcheries are so genetically impaired that, even if they survive and reproduce in the wild, their offspring will also be significantly less successful at reproducing, according ...

Miraveo: mobile networks as social networks

"There is no better way to find friends around you when you are out", said Joel, from the Californian city of Santa Barbara. Joel was speaking about Miraveo software.

No more geeky glasses to watch 3D (w/Video)

Most people’s experience with 3D involves wearing tinted glasses in a cinema. But a new technology, which does not require glasses and may enable 3DTV, is being developed by European researchers.

Close social ties make baboons better mothers

Baboons whose mothers have strong relationships with other females are much more likely to survive to adulthood than baboons reared by less social mothers, according to a new study by researchers at UCLA, the University of ...

Not so windy: Research suggests winds dying down

(AP) -- The wind, a favorite power source of the green energy movement, seems to be dying down across the United States. And the cause, ironically, may be global warming - the very problem wind power seeks to address.

Space station astronauts 'spacewalk' in airlock

(AP) -- Two international space station crewmen squeezed into a small airlock Wednesday and moved a docking mechanism to accommodate a research module expected to arrive later this year.

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