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A man displays an iPhone. Apple on Wednesday announced that outside developers have crammed the virtual shelves of its App Store with more than 100,000 mini-programs for iPhones and iPod Touch devices.

Qatar University's Physics Department, Qatar Foundation's Sidra Medical and Research Center, and CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research are embarking on a multi-faceted partnership that stands to benefit the healthcare segment and the world of science.

Cloaking devices would steer light or other electromagnetic waves around them like water around a stone in a smooth stream, leaving nary a ripple of difference in the flow.

GENEVA : THE $6.5 billion machine designed to recreate the conditions present at the beginning of time had to be switched off after a bird dropped a "bit of baguette" into it, causing it to overheat.

Is there such a thing as "weather" on Mars? There are some doubts, considering the planet's atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as that of the Earth.

The Motorola MOTO W233 Renew telephone, seen here in January 2009. The inventor of the mobile phone, Motorola researcher Martin Cooper, said Wednesday the devices have become too complex, with a range of features from cameras to music, since he made the first-ever wireless call over three decades ago.

Amelia, the latest film by Mira Nair , is the story of arguably the world's most famous female pilot.

Thiessen was eager to write a physcis textbook that involves the many questions people have about cancer.

Craig Heinke from the University of Alberta Physics department, discovered a neutron star.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 5, 2009 -- A high-resolution microscope has been developed to image individual atoms in an ultracold quantum gas, marking the first time scientists have detected single atoms in a crystalline structure made solely of light, called a Bose Hubbard optical lattice.

A presentation at a recent SLAC Users Group meeting included some of the following data about NSF support for HEP theory: Theory funding for FY 2008: $11.68 million.

There was a large turnout last week on the first day of a three-day symposium entitled "Accelerators for America's Future." The attendance, as well as the presentations from a diverse range of speakers, demonstrated the great interest there is in the potential of accelerators in areas such as medicine, industrial applications, and energy, as well ...

Toshiba Corporation today introduced a new line up of 1.8-inch HDDs with a maximum capacity of 320GB, the highest yet announced by the industry, targeted at thin and light mobile PCs and portable external hard disk drives.

Previous studies have shown that younger breast cancer patients consistently have poorer outcomes than patients who develop the disease later in life, which can translate into lower rates of overall survival.

Home : Sci-Tech : Alberta physicist solves 11,000-year-old supernova mystery Alberta physicist solves 11,000-year-old supernova mystery Date: Thursday Nov.

Physicists at Harvard University have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, behaving in bizarre ways.

The University of Utah will celebrate the initial observations or "first light" of its new $860,000 research telescope in southwest Utah during a Wednesday, Nov.

A robot powered by a computerized model of a rodent brain will help researchers from UC Irvine and UC San Diego understand how people recognize and adapt to change.

Colorized simulation of what happens to 1100 carbon atoms in a "flat" sheet of graphene about 20 microseconds after the central atom is moved slightly upwards.

Designers of anti-cancer drugs are aiming their arrows at mysterious chunks of the genetic material DNA that may play a key role in preventing the growth and spread of cancer cells, according to an article in the current issue of Chemical & Engineering News, ACS' weekly newsmagazine.