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Created by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Notes and data from hobby bird watchers can now be quickly and easily added to one of the world’s largest online bird observation databases. Created by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, BirdLog allows users to contribute their field notes in real-time to help biologists and scientists understand and

Has your steering wheel been too hot to touch this summer? A new thermoelectric material reported in the journal Science could offer relief. The widespread adoption of thermoelectric devices that can directly convert electricity into thermal energy for cooling and heating has been hindered, in part, by the lack of materials that are both inexpensive and highly

“Ultimately we want to have low cost, low toxicity, and the ability to make flexible devices” It’s not easy going green. For home lighting applications, organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) hold the promise of being both environmentally friendly and versatile. Though not as efficient as regular light-emitting diodes (LEDs), they offer a wider range of

Researchers have announced an advance that could double the capacity of fiber-optic circuits, potentially opening the way for networks to carry more data over long distances while significantly reducing their cost. Writing in the journal Science on Thursday, electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego proposed a way to extend the range that

iDevices seem to be the control interface of choice for increasing numbers of remote controlled devices – just look at Parrot’s AR.Drone and the iPhly app. Now Griffin, a company well known for its range of iPhone, iPod and iPad accessories, has joined the growing number of iPhone controlled flying gizmos with its HELO TC

The development of affordable and efficient ceramic fuel cells that could be used to power homes, the culmination of five years worth of work by Colorado School of Mines researchers, is featured in the July 23 issue of Science magazine. The research, led by Mines Professor Ryan O’Hayre, would enable more efficient use of natural

Solar Cell from Berkeley Lab/University of Illinois Absorbs High-Energy Light at 30-fold Higher Concentration than Conventional Cells By combining designer quantum dot light-emitters with spectrally matched photonic mirrors, a team of scientists with Berkeley Lab and the University of Illinois created solar cells that collect  blue photons at 30 times the concentration of conventional solar

A blood test that can detect breast cancer decades before the disease develops could be available in five years  The test could help doctors to identify women at high risk of the disease allowing them to take preventive medicines and switch to healthier lifestyles. Researchers have identified a ‘genetic switch’, carried by one in five

Recently (at long last), camera companies have begun diverting their research efforts from “how to get more megapixels” to “how to get better photos.”

While the search continues for the Fountain of Youth, researchers may have found the body’s “fountain of aging”: the brain region known as the hypothalamus. For the first time, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University report that the hypothalamus of mice controls aging throughout the body. Their discovery of a specific