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A teenager in California created a 20-second cell phone charger, winning a $50,000 prize on Friday, it was reported. Eesha Khare, 18, of Saratoga, got the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award for creating a storage device that can be charged in between 20 and 30 seconds. “My cellphone battery always dies,” Khare told NBC News

VTT Technical Centre of Finland has developed and utilized a mass production method based on printing technologies allowing the manufacturing of decorative, organic solar panels Design freedom improves the range of applications of the panels on the surfaces of interior and exterior building spaces. VTT is also studying the feasibility of printing technology in the

By isolating cells into a monolayer within a fluid via acoustic levitation, a group of Utah Valley University researchers created a new method to detect cell stiffness — enabling exploration of cell changes that occur during the metastasis of cancer or other diseases. Utah Valley University physicists are literally applying rocket science to the field

Researchers from the University of Bonn found out that tiny foraminifera in the oceans can save islands The climate is getting warmer, and sea levels are rising – a threat to island nations. As a group of researchers lead by colleagues from the University of Bonn found out, at the same time, tiny single-cell organisms

Image via Wikipedia Reader Murdoch points us to one of Wired’s regular “this day in tech” history pieces about how Louis Daguerre revealed all of the “secrets” to making daguerrotypes, which was the basis for photography, in 1839. Rather than a “patent” to lock up the offering, the French government gave Daguerre and his partner,

In the global war against disease-carrying mosquitoes, scientists have long believed that a single molecular door was the key target for insecticide. This door, however, is closing, giving mosquitoes the upper hand. In this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers led by Michigan State University has discovered a second

An ambitious plan for curing cancer in a businesslike way is in the works   RON DEPINHO is a man on a mission. Oddly, though, he does not yet know exactly what that mission is. Dr DePinho is the new president of the MD Anderson Cancer Centre in Houston, Texas. (He took over in September,

An online auction site that allows customers to buy, sell, browse and track modern and contemporary art from 18 galleries across Australasia in 3D was launched last week. The site, www.ocula.com, will also feature market news, facilitate private sales and provide real time market data, including comparable sales results through a live feed to the Australian

Commissioned by BAA (Heathrow Airport’s operator), the ULTra PRT transportation system, which utilizes autonomous electric podcars, has been launched at Heathrow Airport. The point-to-point vehicles connect Heathrow’s Terminal 5 with two business parking lots, carrying approximately 800 passengers each weekday. Replacing two diesel-powered buses in June, the personal shuttle system at Heathrow Airport is available

The batteries we use every day may soon become cheaper, smaller and lighter. Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a family of anode materials that can double the charge capacity of lithium-ion battery anodes. This means that the batteries that we use in everything from