Study exposes how bacteria resist antibiotics

Scientists have discovered how bacteria fend off a wide range of antibiotics, and blocking that defense mechanism could give existing antibiotics more power to fight dangerous infections.

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Superscanner sees into the unknown

Nanotom, the most advanced 3D X-ray micro Computed Tomography (CT) scanner in the world, will help scientists from a wide variety of departments across the University literally see through solids. The machine will make previously difficult and laborious research much easier as it allows researchers to probe inside objects without having to break into them.

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MU engineers develop safer, blast-resistant glass

To protect from potential terrorist attacks, federal buildings and other critical infrastructures are made with special windows that contain blast-resistant glass. However, the glass is thick and expensive. Currently, University of Missouri researchers are developing and testing a new type of blast-resistant glass that will be thinner, lighter and less vulnerable to small-scale explosions.

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Using Nanotubes in Computer Chips

MIT materials scientists have developed a new technique for growing carbon nanotubes that could replace the vertical wires in chips, permitting denser packing of circuits.

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Panasonic: New LED bulbs shine for 19 years

Panasonic has launched a new household LED lightbulb in Japan that it says lasts 40 times longer than incandescent bulbs.

The screw-in bulbs are part of the EverLed line, and they're scheduled to hit stores in Japan on October 21.

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Hard Drives offer 2 TB capacity

WD (NYSE:WDC) today announced that it is now shipping desktop 7200 RPM 2 TB hard drives and is qualifying with OEMs enterprise-class hard drives based on WD's 500 gigabytes-per-platter technology. The popular family of WD Caviar Black drives, now led by the new 2 TB capacity, is perfect for gaming, high-performance desktop systems and workstations.

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Coating protects against graffiti

A team of researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research in Potsdam has developed a new breathable coating that provides buildings with protection against graffiti.

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Image-guided surgery

A new image-guided surgical instrument system that is currently under development in the US will be able to pinpoint the place that surgeons should make an incision on patients who have scar tissue.

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Researchers Claim to Cook Up Isolated Magnetic Poles

Te magnetic monopole. Magnetism's answer to electricity's negatively charged electron, a monopole would be a free-floating carrier of either magnetic north or magnetic south—a yin unbound from its yang.A pair of papers published online this week in Science offer experimental evidence that such monopoles do in fact exist, albeit not as electron-like elementary particles, a caveat that one self-professed purist says disqualifies them from genuine monopole status.

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DNA Barcoding

The authors propose that a segment of mitochondrial DNA can distinguish animal species. They imagine a day when a hand­­­­­held scanner (similar to a GPS device) will link to a database of the barcodes of all species. Then, by in­serting a snippet of tissue into the scanner, anyone can get an instant identification of a creature or plant.

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Laser propulsion powers next-generation aerospacecraft

In contrast to the Space Elevator concept, in which high-power continuous-wave lasers beam light to photovoltaic cells attached to a vehicle that rides into space on a cable at relatively slow 5 m/s speeds, beamed-energy propulsion (BEP) focuses a megawatt-level peak-power laser on a propellant onboard a next-generation nano-satellite launcher to boost a kilogram of payload into low-Earth orbit.

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Instavest Body Armour and Boltfree Ballistic Helmets Demonstrated by MKU at DSEi

Lightweight armour manufacturers and suppliers like MKU are able to offer personal protection solutions in large numbers and at short notice. At the DSEi exhibition (stand 1924), MKU will be displaying a range of its lightweight personal armour solutions, many already in service, including its instant-release Instavest body armour and its Boltfree helmet range, and briefing military procurers and end users on its range of capabilities.

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Novel Way to Cool Data Centers Passes First Test

The Lawrence Berkeley engineers, working with Intel, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Emerson Network Power, have been experimenting with a way to deliver just the right amount of cooling to computing equipment.

They fed temperature readings from sensors that are built into most modern servers directly into the data-center building controls, allowing the air conditioning system to keep the facility at just the right temperature to cool the servers.

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Google plans new mirror for solar power

Google is disappointed with the lack of breakthrough investment ideas in the green technology sector but the company is working to develop its own new mirror technology that could reduce the cost of building solar thermal plants by a quarter or more.

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Raytheon Unveils SPY-5

Raytheon has developed a new naval radar - AN/SPY-5, a multitracking, target-illuminating system for surface combatants that can simultaneously search, detect and precisely track multiple surface and air threats.

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