13/02/2007

Lunar Eclipse

Picture this: The year is 2025 and you're on the moon. "Home" is 100 meters away—an outpost on the rim of Shackleton Crater. NASA started building it five years earlier, and it is growing fast. You're one of the construction ...

Molecules Under Hammer

How do you get information from a preparation that is transparent? How can you still see a three-dimensional image through a microscope? Dutch researcher Rajesh S. Pillai investigated a new way of illuminating preparations ...

Scientists: A good lie detector is hard to find

In the not-too-distant future, police may request a warrant to search your brain. This was said only partly in jest by one of the panelists at a Feb. 2 symposium, "Is There Science Underlying Truth Detection?" sponsored by ...

AIAA recommends actions for implementation of lunar settlements

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Space Colonization Technical Committee (SCTC) has developed a position statement which recommends specific research, development, technology and engineering goals ...

RIM Introduced BlackBerry 8800 Smartphone

Research In Motion introduced the thinnest BlackBerry handset yet. The quad-band GSM/GPRS and EDGE-enabled BlackBerry 8800 is equipped with a full, highly tactile QWERTY keyboard and RIM's user-friendly trackball navigation ...

Controlling Photons for Use in Quantum Computing

“Quantum information science makes use of the quantum nature of particles to perform computation,” Gerhard Rempe explains to PhysOrg.com. “One approach is to use single particles of light – photons – as the basis ...

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