The fact that first graders grow crystals for science projects might lead you to think that physicists know how these snazzy shapes form and unform. Alas, there is still a big blank spot in physics textbooks where the theory of crystal melting should be.
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It's a sniffer dog with a difference: a military Belgian Shepherd that has been trained to detect signs of prostate cancer in patients' urine. According to French scientists, the dog can do it far more accurately than any currently available scientific technique. Felipe Maya reports.
Read More »Watch A Tugboat Drag An Arctic Iceberg To Parched People Half A World Away [Video]
Since he was hired in the '70s by Saudi prince Mohammad al-Faisal, French engineer Georges Mougin has tried to figure out a way to tow freshwater icebergs across the Arctic. Now, with 3-D tech, declassified satellite data, and tugboats, he might have cracked the way to quench the world's thirst
Read More »LinkedIn’s Big Trouble In Social China
A number of sites would love to lay claim to the title "the LinkedIn of China." Especially LinkedIn itself.
Read More »Things I Can’t Live Without: Andy Dunn of Bonobos
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Read More »A Nonalcoholic Drink Option for the Rest of Us
Foodie and former dotcom entrepreneur Sharelle Klaus was frustrated with her nonalcoholic drink options in fine restaurants when she was pregnant with her fourth child in 2004. So she created her own. Sharelle Klaus —who in 1999 launched Planet Squid, an Internet portal for 10-to-14-year-olds that went under during the dotcom bust—wanted something to drink that would pair well with food, that was all natural, and not too sweet.
Read More »After LinkedIn’s IPO: What It Will Have To Do To Earn Its $4.3 Billion Valuation
There is plenty of hoopla over the first major social network IPO.
Read More »Russia’s Innovation Town: A Cross Between Masdar City And Silicon Valley
A new development outside of Moscow, powered by renewable energy, is being built to foster research.
Read More »Why Bayes Rules: The History of a Formula That Drives Modern Life
Google has a small fleet of robotic cars that since autumn have driven themselves for thousands of miles on the streets of northern California without once striking a pedestrian, running a stoplight or having to ask directions. The cars’ ability to analyze enormous quantities of data--from cameras, radar sensors, laser-range finders--lies in the 18th-century math theorem known as Bayes’ rule.
Read More »When the speed of light depends on its direction
Light does not travel at the same speed in all directions under the effect of an electromagnetic field. Although predicted by theory, this counter-intuitive effect has for the first time been demonstrated experimentally in a gas by a French team from the Laboratoire 'Collisions Agregats Reactivite' at CNRS. The researchers measured with extreme precision, of around one billionth m/s, the difference between the light propagation speeds in one direction and in the opposite direction.
Read More »The 10 Most Innovative Companies In China
01 / Dawning Information Industry > > For being China's leading supercomputer-maker. Its Nebulae is the world's third-fastest, and Dawning aims to take on its chipmaker, Nvidia, with its own chip, called the Loongson
Read More »iFive: Another Sony Hack, Amazon’s Tablet Details, Ubisoft’s Film Division, Intel As Apple’s Factory, Twitter Buys TweetDeck
1. Sony's woes are deepening: Sony Online Entertainment has also been breached , as well as the PSN, and over 24.6 million user accounts are affected. It's early days, but Sony thinks over 12,000 credit cards have been compromised one way or another and personal info on the millions of other users may include addresses, names, dates of birth, and encrypted passwords
Read More »Hot New Market: Smarter Window Glass
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Read More »French Oil Giant Total Spends $1.4 Billion To Control SunPower, But Why?
Last week, French oil and gas giant Total spent an attention-grabbing $1.4 billion for a majority stake in U.S solar company SunPower .
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