Neowin News Feed for: Scientists

Microsoft details how scientists have used its innovations in AI to help the environment

Hamza Jawad — Wed, 22 May 2019 13:08:01 +0000

Microsoft has outlined how scientists and conservationists are understanding, analyzing, and confronting environmental issues using its artificial intelligence and eco-centric applications. Read more...

Experts warn against taking selfies on Friday's solar eclipse

Usama Jawad — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 18:24:01 +0000

Nearly 80% of Europe will experience a solar eclipse this Friday, where the moon will blot up to 98% of the sun's disc - but experts have strictly warned against taking selfies during the phenomenon. Read more...

Scientists Tout 3-D Facial Recognition

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:59:24 +0000

The future of password protection could be here soon, scientists from the University of Houston claim, if a "radically new approach to biometrics" comes to fruition. University of Houston Eckhard Pfeiffer Professor Ioannis Kakadiaris and... Read more...

Scientists Open Door to Laptop That Literally Screams

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:11:17 +0000

Scientists at the University of Utah have developed a way to convert the wasted heat in electronic devices into sound and then electricity, promising cooler, greener, and perhaps louder, computers and other machines. Orest Symko,... Read more...

Scientists double the capacity of rechargeable batteries

Tom Warren — Tue, 08 May 2007 11:09:36 +0000

New research results presented today could bring companies such as Intel much closer to that goal of offering notebooks that achieve a battery running time of 8 hours and more. Researchers of the... Read more...

Japanese Scientists Create 200nm Thick Polymer-based Battery

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:19:53 +0000

At Waseda University, three scientists by the names of Hiroyuki Nishide, Hiroaki Konishi and Takeo Suga have developed a new polymer-based 200 nanometres thick rechargeable battery that incorporates a high charge/discharge capacity, yet it is... Read more...

Scientists show thought-controlled computer

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:18:38 +0000

Forget speech-recognition software: How about typing a letter just by thinking it? In a quiet corner of the Cebit trade show a small Austrian company is showing a "brain-computer interface," a technology that could one... Read more...

Scientists Develop 'Thinnest Material Ever,' One Atom Thick

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:12:21 +0000

British-based scientists have created graphene, supposedly the thinnest material in the world: a one atom thick layer of carbon formed in hexagonal gropus. The substance, which is about 200,000 thinner than a human hair, was... Read more...

3-D video game uncovers brain dysfunction: Scientists

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:03:32 +0000

Scientists at the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health have found that clinically depressed people's performance in a 3-D video game suggests spatial memory, which tells the brain where objects are located and their orientation,... Read more...

Scientists Research Brain Implant Chip

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:25:30 +0000

University of Washington researchers are working hard on an electronic chip that may help establish new nerve connections in the part of the brain that controls movement. This implantable chip strengthens weak connections and may... Read more...

Canadian Scientists Re-grow Teeth and Bones

Dave Legg — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:20:33 +0000

Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton have created a tool which uses small ultra-sound pulses to stimulate the growth of teeth and bones. The device will be able to help re-grow teeth that... Read more...

Microsoft Scientists Pushing Keyboard Into the Past

Wed, 03 May 2006 22:23:15 +0000

How can you find information about Condoleezza Rice on the Internet? Type in "2*#7423". That is if you have a copy of a prototype program from Microsoft Research currently named The Wild Thing. The... Read more...

Gates Worried About Decline in US Computer Scientists

Mon, 18 Jul 2005 21:54:33 +0000

Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates said Monday that there is a shortage of qualified computer science engineers for hire in the U.S., a problem that is reflective of the decline of interest... Read more...

Scientists find a cure for hiccups

Sun, 27 Jun 2004 00:55:59 +0000

In a new study conducted at the Louisiana State University Health Science Center, New Orleans, scientists have discovered a new approach to treating medically intractable hiccups. Dr. Bryan R. Payne, and Dr. Robert Tiel by... Read more...

Mars scientists find tempting new rocks

Fri, 07 May 2004 00:21:29 +0000

Excited Mars mission scientists on Thursday released spectacular pictures of cliff-like rocks they hope will provide further clues about the extent of water on the red planet. Scientists at the Mars mission headquarters in Pasadena... Read more...

U.S. scientists create new form of matter

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 03:55:15 +0000

Scientists said on Wednesday they had created a new form of matter and predicted it could help lead to the next generation of superconductors for use in electricity generation, more efficient trains and countless other... Read more...

Intel scientists find wall for Moore's Law

Mon, 01 Dec 2003 19:15:12 +0000

Moore's Law, as chip manufacturers generally refer to it today, is coming to an end, according to a recent research paper. Granted, that end likely won't come for about two decades, but... Read more...

NZ scientists take Back to the future

Wed, 08 Jan 2003 10:11:33 +0000

Kiwi computer scientists are redesigning the one thing internet users use the most - the back button - hoping to make it easier for people to navigate the net. Billions of web pages are... Read more...

Scientists make "major leap" on secure communication

Thu, 03 Oct 2002 12:50:44 +0000

According to reports today scientists from the QinetiQ organisation have managed to send a key for encryption just under 15 miles (a new record), opening the door for security of an unparalleled level in the... Read more...

Scientists test first human cyborg

Steven Parker — Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:49:12 +0000

Thanks Mark (our field reporter in the U.S.A) who heard this from a mate who saw this on Warp2search where CNN got it from some British site, ya you get the picture.. OXFORD, England --... Read more...

Scientists Believe They Have Created Anti-Matter

Fri, 22 Feb 2002 14:26:58 +0000

It is a scary thought. While walking down the road you meet someone who wants to shake your hand. But the stranger is made of anti-matter, and when your fingers touch -ka-boom. Physicists believe the... Read more...