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May 18, 2012 12:56 PM EDT

Ultra-short Laser Pulses for Science and Industry

Laser technology uses light. Light can be rapidly and precisely deflected, shaped and focused. If we pulse laser light and reduce pulse duration more and more, the laser tool works even more precisely.

May 18, 2012 11:08 AM EDT

Laser Scan at Full Speed

Laser systems can be used to implement highly precise and ultra-fast measuring processes. Railway measuring technology has a huge worldwide need here.

May 18, 2012 07:12 AM EDT

Iran Threatens to Sue Google over Dropping Persian Gulf

Iran's Foreign Ministry threatened on Thursday to take legal action against Google for dropping the name Persian Gulf from its Google Maps and leaving the waterway between Iran and Arab states nameless, state television reported.

May 18, 2012 07:05 AM EDT

ZTE Confirms Security Hole in U.S. Phone

ZTE Corp, the world's No.4 handset vendor and one of two Chinese companies under U.S. scrutiny over security concerns, said one of its mobile phone models sold in the United States contains a vulnerability that researchers say could allow others to control the device.

May 17, 2012 11:54 AM EDT

3-Telescope Interferometry Allows Astrophysicists to Observe How Black Holes Are Fueled

By combining the light of three powerful infrared telescopes, an international research team has observed the active accretion phase of a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy tens of millions of light years away, a method that has yielded an unprecedented amount of data for such observa...

May 17, 2012 10:03 AM EDT

Beyond the High-Speed Hard Drive

Strange new materials experimentally identified just a few years ago are now driving research in condensed-matter physics around the world. First theorized and then discovered by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and their colleagues ...

May 17, 2012 08:26 AM EDT

VIDEO: Paralyzed Woman Uses Thoughts to Move Robotic Arm

Using just her thoughts, a 58-year-old paralyzed woman instructed a robotic arm to grasp a cup of coffee and guide it to her mouth where she sipped from a straw, the first drink she has been able to serve herself in 15 years.

May 16, 2012 02:46 PM EDT

Apple readies iPhone with Bigger Screen: Sources

Apple Inc plans to use a larger screen on the next-generation iPhone and has begun to place orders for the new displays from suppliers in South Korea and Japan, people familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.

May 16, 2012 11:52 AM EDT

A Step Towards Ultrahigh-Density Memory Devices

Researchers at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Engineering have developed the first ferroelectric columnar liquid crystal, a potential candidate for an ultrahigh-density memory device.

May 16, 2012 06:47 AM EDT

China Mobile in Talks with Apple for iPhone

China Mobile, the world's biggest telecom carrier by subscribers, said on Wednesday it is negotiating with Apple Inc to carry the popular iPhone in China.

May 14, 2012 02:38 PM EDT

Got a Pirate Problem? There's Even an App for That

The Department of Defense will begin funding an Office of Naval Research (ONR)-sponsored project aimed at developing Web applications to help multinational navies police the world's oceans, officials announced May 14.

May 14, 2012 10:44 AM EDT

Floating Robots Use GPS-enabled Smartphones to Track Water Flow

A fleet of 100 floating robots took a trip down the Sacramento River today (Wednesday, May 9) in a field test organized by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley. The smartphone-equipped floating robots demonstrated the next generation of water monitoring technology, promising to transf...