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• Water tractor beam: Complex waves generate flow patterns to manipulate floating objects
• Spectacular 3-D sketching system revolutionizes design interaction and collaboration
• Like cling wrap, new biomaterial can coat tricky burn wounds, block out infection

• Carbon dioxide 'sponge' could ease transition to cleaner energy

• On the frontiers of cyborg science: Development of electronic-brain relationship
• Hospitals could face penalties for missing electronic health record deadline
• Water's reaction with metal oxides opens doors for researchers
• Immediate aftermath of an oil spill
• Grass really is greener on TV, computer screens, thanks to quantum dots

• Air traffic growth set to outpace carbon reduction efforts
• Gasification of oil palm biomass to produce clean producer gas for heat, power generation
• New programming language accommodates multiple languages in same program
• Regulations needed to identify potentially invasive biofuel crops
• Diamonds are a quantum computer's best friend
• Crash-testing rivets for better reliability
• Presentations collectively prepared with new platform

Water tractor beam: Complex waves generate flow patterns to manipulate floating objects Posted: 10 Aug 2014 06:42 PM PDT Physicists have created a tractor beam on water, providing a radical new technique that could confine oil spills, manipulate floating objects or explain rips at the beach.

Spectacular 3-D sketching system revolutionizes design interaction and collaboration Posted: 10 Aug 2014 06:36 PM PDT Collaborative three-dimensional sketching is now possible thanks to a system known as Hyve-3D. The system is a full scale immersive 3D environment. Users create drawings on hand-held tables. They can then use the tablets to manipulate the sketches to create a 3D design within the space.

Like cling wrap, new biomaterial can coat tricky burn wounds, block out infection Posted: 10 Aug 2014 09:42 AM PDT Wrapping wound dressings around fingers and toes can be tricky, but for burn victims, guarding them against infection is critical. Today, scientists are reporting the development of novel, ultrathin coatings called nanosheets that can cling to the body's most difficult-to-protect contours and keep bacteria at bay. The materials has to date been tested on mice.

Carbon dioxide 'sponge' could ease transition to cleaner energy Posted: 10 Aug 2014 09:42 AM PDT A plastic sponge that sops up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) might ease our tranisition away from polluting fossil fuels to new energy sources like hydrogen. A relative of food container plastics could play a role in President Obama's plan to cut CO2 emissions. The material might also someday be integrated into power plant smokestacks.

On the frontiers of cyborg science: Development of electronic-brain relationship Posted: 10 Aug 2014 09:41 AM PDT Cyborg technology is bringing us real-life electronic skin, prosthetics and ultra-flexible circuits. Now taking this human-machine concept to an unprecedented level, pioneering scientists are working on the seamless marriage between electronics and brain signaling with the potential to transform our understanding of how the brain works — and how to treat its most devastating diseases.

Hospitals could face penalties for missing electronic health record deadline Posted: 08 Aug 2014 01:34 PM PDT Many of the nation's hospitals in the U.S. struggled to meet a federally mandated electronic health records deadline, and as a result could collectively face millions of dollars in reduced Medicare payments this year, a study shows.

Water's reaction with metal oxides opens doors for researchers Posted: 08 Aug 2014 01:33 PM PDT A long-unanswered question about how two of the world's most common substances interact has been answered by researchers. In a new paper, chemical and biological engineers report fundamental discoveries about how water reacts with metal oxides.

Immediate aftermath of an oil spill Posted: 08 Aug 2014 08:19 AM PDT The fate of oil during the first day after an accidental oil spill is still poorly understood, with researchers often arriving on the scene only after several days. New findings from a field experiment carried out in the North Sea provide valuable insight that could help shape the emergency response in the immediate wake of disasters.

Grass really is greener on TV, computer screens, thanks to quantum dots Posted: 08 Aug 2014 08:00 AM PDT High-tech specks called quantum dots could bring brighter, more vibrant color to mass market TVs, tablets, phones and other displays. A new technology called 3M quantum dot enhancement film (QDEF) that efficiently makes liquid crystal display (LCD) screens more richly colored is described by an expert.

Air traffic growth set to outpace carbon reduction efforts Posted: 07 Aug 2014 06:55 PM PDT Carbon reduction efforts in the airline industry will be outweighed by growth in air-traffic, even if the most contentious mitigation measures are implemented, according to new research. Even if proposed mitigation measures are agreed upon and put into place, air traffic growth-rates are likely to out-pace emission reductions, unless demand is substantially reduced. "There is little doubt that increasing demand for air travel will continue for the foreseeable future," says a co-author and travel expert.

Gasification of oil palm biomass to produce clean producer gas for heat, power generation Posted: 07 Aug 2014 06:55 PM PDT A new technology can simultaneously remove impurities and produce clean gas for heat and power generation from waste biomass, researchers report. Currently available gasification technologies and processes produce gas with unusually high concentration of impurities such as tar, dust and acidic gases which render it difficult to be used widely.

New programming language accommodates multiple languages in same program Posted: 07 Aug 2014 11:59 AM PDT Computer scientists have designed a way to safely use multiple programming languages within the same program, enabling programmers to use the language most appropriate for each function while guarding against code injection attacks, one of the most severe security threats in Web applications today.

Regulations needed to identify potentially invasive biofuel crops Posted: 07 Aug 2014 11:56 AM PDT If the hottest new plant grown as a biofuel crop is approved based solely on its greenhouse gas emission profile, its potential as the next invasive species may not be discovered until it's too late. In response to this need to prevent such invasions, researchers have developed both a set of regulatory definitions and provisions and a list of 49 low-risk biofuel plants from which growers can choose.

Diamonds are a quantum computer's best friend Posted: 07 Aug 2014 07:52 AM PDT The quantum computer is not yet quite around the corner: calculations show that to implement a useful quantum algorithm, billions of quantum systems have to be used. The elements of a newly proposed quantum computer concept, nitrogen atoms trapped in diamonds, could in principle be miniaturized and mass produced. This system could be to quantum computing what the transistor was for microelectronics.

Crash-testing rivets for better reliability Posted: 07 Aug 2014 07:50 AM PDT Rivets have to reliably hold the chassis of an automobile together -- even if there is a crash. Previously, it was difficult to predict with great precision how much load they could tolerate. A more advanced model now delivers realistic projections.

Presentations collectively prepared with new platform Posted: 07 Aug 2014 07:50 AM PDT Today, every speaker compiles his or her own presentations to accompany their lectures. With a new Internet platform that uses Wikipedia as its model, slide show presentations can now be drafted, distributed, and translated together with others.

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