Scientific output in Iran has grown on average 11 times faster than any other country, according to a report published by Canadian data-analysis company Science-Metrix, and most of that growth has been in nuclear physics related disciplines. Additionally, it is estimated that this year China will (more...)

Posted on February 19, 2010

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3D printers, able to produce solid plastic objects from computer designs, have existed for quite a while. In fact open source self-replicating 3D printers have existed for years. What makes this 3D printer different is that instead of a plastic polymer, it uses live cells as its construction (more...)

Posted on December 21, 2009

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On the second day of the COP15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, a paper has surfaced which has developing nations “furious”. The Guardian reports that a paper identified as “the Danish text” proposes that climate change funds be controlled by the World (more...)

Posted on December 9, 2009

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Electronic devices and internal combustion engines are some of the biggest consumers of energy worldwide. As a side effect of energy consumption, they produce heat which is more often than not simply released into the environment. A concept published recently in the Journal of Applied Physics (more...)

Posted on December 9, 2009

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Researchers have, for a while now, been able to create tiny nanoscale structures, using all kinds of molecular building blocks. One technique which is rapidly taking off is using DNA as the construction material. It can potentially lead to self-assembling or even replicating structures, highly (more...)

Posted on December 9, 2009

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