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The birth of a giant planet?
Candidate protoplanet spotted inside its stellar womb.
February 28, 2013
Novel wireless brain sensor unveiled
Engineers have developed a novel wireless, broadband, rechargeable, fully implantable brain sensor that has performed well in animal models for more than a year.
February 28, 2013
NuSTAR helps solve riddle of black hole spin
An international team of scientists has definitively measured the spin rate of a supermassive black hole for the first time.
February 27, 2013
New plastic electronics can greatly reduce food waste worldwide
Researchers have invented a circuit that makes it possible to test whether food inside packaging is still safe to eat. This development should drastically reduce the amount of edible food which is wasted every day.
February 27, 2013
Infrared digital holography allows firefighters to see through flames
A team of Italian researchers has developed a new imaging technique that uses infrared (IR) digital holography to peer through chaotic conflagrations and capture potentially lifesaving and otherwise hidden details.
February 26, 2013
Connecting the quantum dots
New spin technique moves researchers closer to creating the first viable high-speed quantum computer.
February 26, 2013
Rethinking wind power
Harvard research suggests real-world generating capacity of wind farms at large scales has been overestimated.
February 25, 2013
Future evidence for extraterrestrial life might come from dying stars
Even dying stars could host planets with life. And if such life exists, we might be able to detect it within the next decade.
February 25, 2013
Glowing jet from a young star
Located 460 light-years away in the constellation of Taurus (The Bull), near to the young, tumultuous star HL Tau, HH151,shown below, is a bright jet of glowing material trailed by an intricate plume of gas and dust.
February 23, 2013
Fruit flies force their young to drink alcohol – for their own good
The fruit fly study adds to the evidence "that using toxins in the environment to medicate offspring may be common across the animal kingdom," says biologist Todd Schlenke.
February 22, 2013
