Researchers develop 'Star Trek'-like tractor beam
Posted by: arkar
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-01-27 12:32:14 -0800 | technology-news
In “Star Trek”, a tractor beam, which was employed by all the spaceships in the series, was a force beam emitted from a ship that was able to attract and hold objects, often other ships, moving them or keeping them...
In Loch Ness found the skeleton of a plesiosaur - YouTube
Posted by: fibonnaci
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | updated 2012-12-24 16:19:24 -0800 | technology-news
In Loch Ness found the skeleton of a plesiosaur. The remains of a dinosaur that lived 150 million years ago, were found on the shores of Loch Ness. Scientists immediately hastened to clarify that they can not belong to the...
Hubble telescope peers even further back into Cosmos’ past, taking deepest view yet
Posted by: arkar
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-03-06 21:00:07 -0800 | technology-news
Instrumental in having pieced together, picture by picture, the cosmos, the Hubble telescope has, as it was revealed today, taken its most deepest view of the cosmos yet, discovering a number of new galaxies, some of which had been formed...
Mars rover Curiosity could one day be brought back by astronauts, NASA director says
Posted by: arkar
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | updated 2012-11-07 05:10:39 -0800 | technology-news
It’s been on the Red Planet for close to three months now and the NASA Mars rover Curiosity, which landed in the equatorial Gale Crater on Aug. 6, has been quite busy gathering data and even achieving some land mark...
Researchers aim to create black hole
Posted by: arkar
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | updated 2012-10-06 23:03:25 -0700 | technology-news
Like the proverbial storm in a tea cup, Scottish scientists are cooking up what is expected to be quite an experiment, as sticking to the adage, the researchers plan to create a veritable storm in a tea cup, but instead...
Researchers say that lying eyes theory is a myth
Posted by: arkar
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | updated 2012-07-15 21:16:31 -0700 | technology-news
As cliché as it may sound, people have often put stock in the well-known aphorism, "the eyes are the windows to the soul." Staring deeply, it is said, often enough reveals a great deal about a person and where they...
App developed to help people caught in a riot to find safety
Posted by: arkar
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | updated 2012-06-27 08:50:11 -0700 | technology-news
Riot app anyone? During the London riots last year, it emerged that rioters besides using the usual meat and bone implements, were coordinating amongst one another using the BlackBerry messaging service as well as later on gloating about their exploits...
Male pill: gene discovery may lead to contraceptive
Posted by: nazish7
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | updated 2012-07-27 14:54:05 -0700 | technology-news
Researchers from Edinburgh University have found a key gene essential for sperm development. The discovery, published today in inst PLoS Genetics, is supported in the same journal by a second work, involving the same researchers and Scottish colleagues, that identifies...
Viking boat burial is found in Scotland
Posted by: Abdel Fattah Hussein
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | updated 2012-07-27 23:35:05 -0700 | technology-news
A completely intact Viking boat burial was first found on the northwest coast of Scotland, according to British archaeologists.Bronze objects, including a knife, an ax and a sword found with the remains of the body and the boat where he...
What makes a mixed race twin white or black?
Posted by: Abdel Fattah Hussein
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | updated 2012-07-28 03:54:55 -0700 | technology-news
From the genetic point of view, a European couple formed by two people of different race who is expecting twins has a probability of 1 in 500 babies that have a different skin color.50 years ago, these cases were virtually...
Google tries to reassure TV industry it's no ogre
Posted by: jimmii
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | updated 2012-03-05 01:23:22 -0800 | technology-news
-- Google has moved to reassure a global television industry quaking at the prospect that the Internet search giant is about to move onto TV sets and into living rooms around the globe. Edinburgh, Scotland In a keynote speech to...
Today is the 89th death anniversary of the telephone inventor Graham Bell…
Posted by: mcplay
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | updated 2012-02-11 21:29:33 -0800 | technology-news
Almost every one of you carry a decent, smart mobile phone handset in your pocket at most times of the day and probably use it so frequently for calls or SMSs, some even have most comprehensive phones which they use...
Scientists Use Ink-jet Printing For Solar Cell Production
Posted by: abduljabar
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | updated 2012-11-02 11:11:03 -0700 | technology-news
Solar power may soon be easier to catch, say researchers who have developed a new method to produce solar cells using inkjet printing. Oregon State University researchers have found a technology similar to that commonly used to print documents and...
NN4M introduces customisation features and social media integration to Karen Millen iPhone app
Posted by: RevolverPR
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | updated 2011-09-17 06:18:35 -0700 | technology-news
Leading m-commerce solutions expert NN4M has unveiled an updated version of high street retailer Karen Millen's successful iPhone app, introducing new personalisation features, video content, greater social media integration and enhanced check out options.Confirming the leading fashion...
Climate 'technical fix' may yield warming, not cooling
Posted by: anonymous
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-03-24 05:49:22 -0700 | technology-news
Whitening the clouds by spraying them with seawater, had been proposed as a technical fix for the climate change, can do more harm than good, in accordance to a research. Whiter clouds can reflect more solar energy back into space,...
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