Tech: Equipment- and training-free textile detectors could be used in public health, workplace safety,...
Tufts University engineers have developed a novel fabrication method to create dyed threads that change color when they detect a variety of gases....
Tech: Using light focused to size of an atom, they push resolution of microscopy...
By focusing light down to the size of an atom, scientists at the University of California, Irvine have produced the first images of...
Tech: Amplifier for terahertz lattice vibrations in a semiconductor crystal — (Report)
In analogy to the amplification of light in a laser, vibrations of a semiconductor crystal, so called phonons, were enhanced by interaction with...
Tech: Order hidden in disorder — (Report)
Partitioning space into cells with optimum geometrical properties is a central challenge in many fields of science and technology. Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute...
Tech: Transparent wood can store and release heat — (Report)
Wood may seem more at home in log cabins than modern architecture, but a specially treated type of timber could be tomorrow's trendy...
Tech: Programmable ‘Legos’ of DNA and protein building blocks create novel 3D cages —...
The central goal of nanotechnology is the manipulation of materials on an atomic or molecular scale, especially to build microscopic devices or structures....
Tech: Prebiotic chemistry: Stable majorities — (Report)
How could prebiotic information-bearing DNA sequences survive in the face of competition from a vast excess of shorter molecules with random sequences? Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet...
Tech: Dark matter is not made up of tiny black holes — (Report)
An international team of researchers has put a theory speculated by the late Stephen Hawking to its most rigorous test to date, and...
Tech: Muscle-like material expands and contracts in response to light — (Report)
Just as controlled-release medications slowly dole out their cargo after they experience a pH change in the body, implanted "artificial muscles" could someday...
Tech: Bacterial factories could manufacture high-performance proteins for space missions — (Report)
Nature has evolved protein-based substances with mechanical properties that rival even the best synthetic materials. For example, pound for pound, spider silk is...
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Hey ISIS, You Suck: Local Muslims Post Anti-ISIS Billboard
A new billboard on Manchester Road in Missouri reads, "HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK!!! From: #ActualMuslims."
A group of Muslim-Americans have put up a blunt billboard...
