Riding an asteroid: China's next goal in space
After sending a probe to Mars in 2020, China plans to explore three asteroids and land on one of them to conduct scientific research, according to a Chinese asteroid research expert. The "China's Space
Scientific And Technical Development
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Streamlining current
A new product developed by the Southeastern Regional Energy (SRE)
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Battling blaze up there
Communication is vital to aerial fire fighting. A project in the US aims at making it easier for pilots with the help of the advanced navigation display system
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Small wonder
Shake a few bits of silicon in a petri dish containing water and lo, you have a three dimensional structure!
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The safe box
The delivery of a suspicious-looking parcel can cause enormous disruption in the working hours of any organisation, even if it eventually proves to be entirely harmless. Algis, a Derby-based company
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Small makes it big
Micromechanics, a field of engineering earlier considered to be fascinating but impractical, is now back with a bang. A host of applications are in the offing
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Wonder wood
Wood which is aesthetically pleasing and exceptionally resistant can now be made out of recycled polystyrene
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Handy sniffer
The seeping out of refrigerants can now be detected with the help of a competent, handy detector
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Face lift
The bacterium belonging to the Rhodococcus genus can not only neutralise benzene but may also be able to transform it into a source of useful chemicals. This was reported by microbiologists at the
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Playing with molecules
J Siegel and his colleagues at the University of California in San Diego, US, have synthesised a cage-like molecule similar to buckyballs and fullerenes, but one whose size and shape as well as
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New insight
The physicists at Los Alamos national labs in US have announced a large amount of new data from the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector. This data supports their earlier claim that there are