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  Human-Interface Engineers Create Virtual-Reality Experience by Letting Users Walk in Rotating Sphere

  A new invention allows users to explore virtual worlds while moving around safely in their real physical environment. Wearing a virtual-reality helmet, users walk inside a rotating, hollow sphere, ... > more
• Albert Einstein
  Space Telescopes
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  Astronomers Discover Eight New Gravitational Lenses with Hubble Telescope

  Images from the Hubble telescope reveal eight new Einstein rings, joining only three others previously known. Einstein rings are pairs of galaxies, with a foreground galaxy bending the light of a ... > more
• Earthquakes
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  Seismologists Use Ultrasounds to Assess Quakes Faster

  Using ultrasound imaging, seismologists can now determine the epicenter and magnitude of an earthquake quake within 10 to 20 minutes, precisely imaging which fault ruptured and where the rupture ... > more
• Computer Science
  Distributed Computing
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  Computer Engineers Develop Clothes that Sense and Interpret Movements

  New "electronic textiles" could help monitor the activities of patients with chronic illnesses. Computer engineers have developed pants with sensors embedded in the fabric that measure speed, ... > more
• Air Quality
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  Electrical Engineers Develop Microplasma Device to Detect Toxins

  Electrical engineers have developed a new, portable lab that identifies chemicals by their unique color signatures. It is the first such device to be portable, allowing scientists to recognize ... > more
• Heart Disease
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  Cardiologists Use Medical Physics to Pinpoint Cause of Chest Pains

  Unless a patient with chest pain is checked out right away, it can be difficult to diagnose a heart condition, as opposed to less life-threatening causes such as heartburn. A new stress test can spot ... > more
• Optics
  Inorganic Chemistry
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  Physicists Usher In Energy-Saving LED Lighting

  Thanks to advances in physics, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) will soon move from traffic lights and electronics panels to home lighting, bringing dramatic energy savings, adjustable colors for ... > more
• Materials Science
  Electronics
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  Inorganic Chemistry
  Nature of Water
   
  

  Materials Scientists Create Polymer Coating Against Fogged Glass

  When moisture condenses on a cool surface, droplets can form that are the right size to scatter light, fogging up glass. A new polymer coating draws droplets into nanopores and transforms them into a ... > more
• Biometric
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  Albert Einstein
   
  

  Chemist Reviews Wine without Opening Bottle -- an 'MRI for Your Cab'

  A new "wine scanner" measures the presence of chemicals in a bottle without opening it, assessing for example if too much oxygen seeped in and turned the wine into vinegar. In a procedure similar to ... > more
• Medical Technology
  Ultrasound
  Optics
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  Albert Einstein
   
  

  Doctors Catch Cancer Earlier with Special MRI

  A new kind of MRI machine helps doctors diagnose breast cancer earlier. Patients lie on their stomach and their breasts are placed in two coils, which focus radio waves and allow for more complete ... > more

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