TECH SPACE - RUSSO DAILY

Dec 24, 2012 (UPI)

Apple is developing a thinner, lighter fifth-generation iPad sharing some design points with the recently released iPad Mini, a Japanese tech blog is reporting....

All Systems Go for Highest Altitude Supercomputer

Dec 24, 2012 (SPX)

One of the most powerful supercomputers in the world has now been fully installed and tested at its remote, high altitude site in the Andes of northern Chile. T...

Researchers Use Liquid Metal to Create Wires That Stretch Eight Times Their Original Length

Dec 21, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers from North Carolina State University have created conductive wires that can be stretched up to eight times their original length while still functio...

EU: Samsung injunctions against Apple breach rules

Dec 21, 2012 (AFP)

The European Commission said Friday that South Korea's Samsung Electronics was abusing its dominant market position in certain technologies when it took out inj...

pH measurements: How to see the real face of electrochemistry and corrosion?

Dec 21, 2012 (SPX)

For several decades antimony electrodes have been used to measure the acidity/basicity - and so to determine the pH value. Unfortunately, they allow for measuri...

Team develops a microwave-assisted method for producing thin films

Dec 21, 2012 (SPX)

Growth of new materials is the cornerstone of materials science - a highly inter-disciplinary field of science that touches every aspect of our lives from compu...

Paper waste used to make bricks

Dec 21, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers at the University of Jaen (Spain) have mixed waste from the paper industry with ceramic material used in the construction industry. The result is a ...

Sustainable way to make a prized fragrance ingredient

Dec 21, 2012 (SPX)

Large amounts of a substitute for one of the world's most treasured fragrance ingredients - a substance that also has potential anti-cancer activity - could be ...

MEXSAT Bicentenario Satellite Sends First Signals from Space

Dec 21, 2012 (ESA)

The MEXSAT Bicentenario satellite, built by Boeing [NYSE: BA] partner Orbital Sciences Corporation [NYSE: ORB], sent its first signals from space Wednesday foll...

JILA physicists achieve elusive 'evaporative cooling' of molecules

Dec 21, 2012 (SPX)

Achieving a goal considered nearly impossible, JILA physicists have chilled a gas of molecules to very low temperatures by adapting the familiar process by whic...

EU says to set out anti-trust case against Samsung soon

Dec 20, 2012 (AFP)

The EU will set out its case against Samsung Electronics "very soon" following an anti-trust probe of the smartphone and mobile tablet market, Competition Commi...

Fitting 'smart' mobile phone with magnifying optics creates 'real' cell phone

Dec 20, 2012 (SPX)

By fitting a "smart" mobile phone with magnifying optics, bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley created a real "cell" phone, a diagnostic-quali...

Bubble study could improve industrial splash control

Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)

For the first time, scientists witnessed the details of the full, ultrafast process of liquid droplets evolving into a bubble when they strike a surface. Their ...

Apple pinch-to-zoom patent deemed invalid

Dec 19, 2012 (AFP)

A filing Wednesday in a high-stakes legal battle between Samsung and Apple revealed that a "pinch-to-zoom" patent central to the case has been deemed invalid. T...

Missile Defense Agency awards Raytheon contract modification for AN/TPY-2 radar

Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)

Raytheon is being awarded a firm-fixed price contract modification for the AN/TPY-2 radar in the amount of $207,922,395, increasing the total contract value fro...

Google sells Motorola Mobility Home for $2.35 bn

Dec 19, 2012 (AFP)

Google on Wednesday announced it is selling the Motorola Mobility Home unit to global communications technology company ARRIS in a cash and stock deal valued at...

Berkeley Lab Scientists Developing Quick Way to ID People Exposed to Ionizing Radiation

Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)

There's a reason emergency personnel train for the aftermath of a dirty bomb or an explosion at a nuclear power plant. They'll be faced with a deluge of urgent ...

Operation to rescue Yamal-402 a success

Dec 18, 2012 (Voice of Russia)

Experts of the Thales Alenia Space company have completed a unique operation to "rescue" Yamal-402 satellite. On December 9 the Breeze-M upper stage of Russia's...

Grains Gang Up to Bear Brunt of Missile and Meteorite Impacts

Dec 18, 2012 (SPX)

High-speed video of projectiles slamming into a bed of disks has given scientists a new microscopic picture of the way a meteorite or missile transfers the ener...

Instagram yields to user outrage over policy change

Dec 18, 2012 (AFP)

Instagram backed down Tuesday from a planned policy change that appeared to clear the way for the mobile photo sharing service to sell pictures without compensa...