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Controlling 95% of the world's rare-earth mineral market, the Chinese government is looking at stabilizing dramatically fluctuating rare earth metal prices. They... Read More »

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) function like batteries that you can continually add fuel to. The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory... Read More »

Canadian firm Robotiq demonstrates their industrial grade robotic hands. Through a reasonably simple mechanism, the robot is able to adapt its grip between a gentle... Read More »

A UCR Shaahin Amini student submitted a microscopic giraffe likeness to a recent Materials Research Society "Science as Art" competition. Small-scale... Read More »

Japanese chipmaker Renesas reportedly announced yesterday that it will approach shareholders for USD $1 billion to invest in restructuring. Struggling to keep up with... Read More »

The two biggest challenges facing the development of photovoltaic solar cells are cost and efficiency. Solar cells are still relatively expensive to fabricate, mostly ... Read More »

  In the fast-moving world of computer memory, DRAM and Flash are the current best options, but neither is perfect. The solution is ReRAM, technology... Read More »

Northwestern University's Laboratory for Intelligent Mechanical Systems is at it again -- this time investigating a means of locomotion known as brachiation... Read More »

UK mobile company Orange today announced the exclusive launch of its latest smartphone, the San Diego. The device, to be released on June 6th, will feature the new... Read More »

Dr. David Fox of the University of Warwick recently teamed up with IBM Research, Zurich, to image the smallest known likeness of the olympic rings... Read More »

Ascending Technologies has added wireless charging capabilities to its quad-rotor Hummingbird. In the video, the autonomous flying robot charges itself by flying... Read More »

The release has been anticipated since the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year, and might not be all that exciting for American consumers. Still... Read More »

Yesterday evening, number three foundry GlobalFoundries released a swath of PR videos of talking heads on CGI backgrounds. The videos feature a variety of... Read More »

In an interview on The Gavin Newsom Show released today, we finally have a picture of somebody other than Sergei Brin wearing the culmination of Google's Project... Read More »

The news first turned up in an Intel press release -- the Chromebook and Chromebox will feature Intel processors. The Chromebook, now in its fifth generation, still... Read More »

Electrons, the basis of information transfer in modern circuits, are not alone in their ability to form logic gates. Klas Tybrandt, researcher at Linkoping... Read More »

The world of computer-human interaction is becoming ever more realistic (and strange). Researchers at the Yamagata University in Japan have developed a first... Read More »

Google has been embroiled in a legal battle with French broadcaster TF1 over copyrighted content that has been posted on Youtube by its users. The court ruled that... Read More »

Imaging brain activity by detecting very weak magnetic fields within the brain is a technology we've been using for years. Recently German scientists have... Read More »

The rich get richer, Recent stories in tech seem to center around a widening of the gap between successful and unsuccessful companies. Nowhere is this story more... Read More »