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  Technology that enlists natural soil bacteria as 21st century roughnecks now is commercially available and poised to recover precious oil remaining in thousands of exhausted oil wells, according to a scientist who spoke here today. His report on a process termed microbially enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) was part of the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of

Image via Wikipedia European researchers in robotics, psychology and cognitive sciences have developed a robot that can predict the intentions of its human partner. This ability to anticipate (or question) actions could make human-robot interactions more natural. The walking, talking, thinking robots of science fiction are far removed from the automated machines of today. Even

Results could also indicate whether antibiotics have successfully treated the infection. Pneumonia, a respiratory disease that kills about 50,000 people in the United States every year, can be caused by many different microbes, including bacteria and viruses. Rapid detection of pneumonia is critical for effective treatment, especially in hospital-acquired cases which are often more severe.

The yarns are reportedly simple and inexpensive to make We’ve been hearing a lot lately about the possibility of treating medical conditions using nanobots – tiny robots that would be injected into a patient’s bloodstream, where they would proceed to travel to their targets, not unlike the microscopic submarine in the movie Fantastic Voyage …

How is it possible to walk through 3D virtual realities while staying in one place? Engineers from the Vienna University of Technology have solved this problem and are now introducing their “Virtualizer”. Head-mounted devices, which display three dimensional images according one’s viewing direction, allowing the users to lose themselves in computer generated worlds are already

Method to stack hundreds of nanoscale layers could open new vistas in materials science. Adapting an old trick used for centuries by both metalsmiths and pastry makers, a team of researchers at MIT has found a way to efficiently create composite materials containing hundreds of layers that are just atoms thick but span the full

A University of Manchester biologist has for the first time established that the painful and debilitating symptoms endured by osteoarthritis sufferers are intrinsically linked to the human body clock. Symptoms of osteoarthritis linked to human body clock Study could in years to come pave the way for drug treatment As we age, our cartilage cell

According to Naitoh, the method is expected to be lower in cost than use of batteries in electrical vehicles, and could also reduce noise and eliminate the need for cooling mechanisms in internal combustion engines. Prof. Ken Naitoh of Waseda Univ.’s Faculty of Science and Engineering and his associates have discovered a new compressive combustion principle

Engineered tissues and organs have been grown with various degrees of success in labs for many years. Many of them have used a scaffolding approach where cells are seeded onto biodegradable supportive structures that provide the underlying architecture of the organ or tissue desired. But scaffolds can be problematic — ultimately, they should degrade and