Tag: Breakthrough

At the Nokia press conference held earlier this morning at the Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona, Nokia introduced a new series of phones, including the high-end Nokia 808 PureView smartphone.
This is the first smartphone to feature Nokia PureView imaging technologies, that provides a breakthrough in photography.
The Nokia 808 PureView incorporates high-end digital camera features never seen before in a smartphone. more...

ScienceDaily (June 23, 2010) The remarkable ability of an electron to exist in two places at once has been controlled in the most common electronic material -- silicon -- for the first time. The research findings -- published in Nature by a UK-Dutch team from the University of Surrey, UCL (University College) London, Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, and the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics near Utrecht -- marks a significant step towards the making of an affordable "quantum computer."

ScienceDaily (Nov. 10, 2009) The search for the holy grail of regenerative medicine -- the ability to "grow back" a perfect body part when one is lost to injury or disease -- has been under way for years, yet the steps involved in this seemingly magic process are still poorly understood.

Now researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified an essential cellular pathway in zebrafish that paves the way for limb regeneration by unlocking gene expression patterns last seen during embryonic development. They found that a process known as histone demethylation switches cells at the amputation site from an inactive to an active state, which turns on the genes required to build a copy of the lost limb.

A government-funded start-up claims it can make ionic liquid energy storage feasible.

A spinoff from Arizona State University says it can develop a metal-air battery that dramatically outperforms the best lithium-ion batteries on the market, and now it has the funding it needs to prove it.