Technology News

Indonesia hopes to become Indian Ocean tsunami-warning provider by 2011
Indonesia has launched its Tsunami Early Warning System (InaTEWS), with which it hopes to become the Indian Ocean tsunami-warning provider by 2011. ANI

Giant particle smasher to restart in July 2009
An internal report sent to physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory near Geneva in Switzerland, has instructed them to restart the giant machine by end of July 2009. ANI

Coming soon, empathetic virtual humans
A completely different breed of virtual humans is being developed by French researchers which will be capable of reading and adapting to our emotions. ANI

Technology News for July 17, 2007

Scientists get one step closer to spintronics
Scientists at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have by injecting a current of spin-polarized electrons from a ferromagnetic metal contact into silicon, produced a large electron spin polarization in silicon. ANI

Nano propellers may be tomorrows drug deliverers
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have created a theoretical blueprint for assembling a nanoscale propeller with molecule-sized blades. ANI

Spacesuits of the future will be as flexible as Spidermans
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working towards constructing a space suit that promises to be more flexible allowing astronauts superior mobility when they reach Mars or return to the Moon. ANI