A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another. The colony may be the…
Read Full ArticleAustralian scientists kill cancer cells with trojan horse | Global Industries | Health & Drugs | Reuters
Australian scientists have developed a “trojan horse” therapy to combat cancer, using a bacterially-derived nano cell to penetrate and disarm the cancer cell before a second nano cell kills it with chemotherapy drugs. The “trojan horse” therapy has the potential to directly target cancer…
Read Full ArticleAustralian scientists may have worked out the mystery of teleportation | The Daily Telegraph
AUSTRALIAN scientists have developed a new method for transmitting data with light that may lead to super-fast quantum computers and teleportation technology. The research team from the Australian National University developed a new approach to generating quantum entanglement in beams of light using only…
Read Full Article‘Cloak of silence’ tech could hide submarines – Discovery.com- msnbc.com
A new invisibility cloak for sound could help doctors find tiny tumors or hide submarines from enemy sonar. “Our focus is not about dampening noise, but to guide sound waves around structures,” said Nicholas Fang, a professor a the University of Illinois at Urbana…
Read Full ArticleUniversity of Colorado team finds definitive evidence for ancient lake on Mars
A University of Colorado at Boulder research team has discovered the first definitive evidence of shorelines on Mars, an indication of a deep, ancient lake there and a finding with implications for the discovery of past life on the Red Planet. Estimated to be…
Read Full ArticleNew technology enables solar cells to be printed like money
World leading research from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) aims to develop flexible, large area, cost-effective, reel-to-reel printable plastic solar cells. CSIRO Executive Dr Steve Morton said the technology for the solar cells was the result of work by CSIRO researchers…
Read Full ArticleQuantum Leap in Lighting
Seth Coe-Sullivan flicks the switches on two desk lamps, and even from across the conference room, it’s immediately obvious which light the chief technology officer of QD Vision is there to brag about. The light coming from the lamp on the left is a…
Read Full ArticleHow Down Syndrome Stops Cancer
For decades scientists have known that people with Down syndrome, who have an extra copy of chromosome 21, get certain types of cancer at dramatically lower rates than normal. Now, partly by using stem cells derived from the skin of an individual with Down…
Read Full ArticleTest for Cancer With a Take-Home Kit
What if checking for cancer was as easy as a pregnancy test? Soon, it will be. Catching cancer early is the most crucial step to providing effective and proactive treatment against it. But most folks won’t undergo expensive and inconvenient testing until symptoms start…
Read Full ArticleNew ‘broadband’ cloaking technology simple to manufacture
Researchers have created a new type of invisibility cloak that is simpler than previous designs and works for all colors of the visible spectrum, making it possible to cloak larger objects than before and possibly leading to practical applications in “transformation optics.” Whereas previous…
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