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Top 7 alternative energies listed
18:15 14 January 2009 | 50 comments
A detailed study ranks the main types of non-fossil fuels according to their total ecological footprint and their benefit to human health
Morphing gel display puts images at your fingertips
17:44 14 January 2009
A tactile display that crams 300 moving points into every centimetre could display high-resolution information for blind people or even remote surgery
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Swarmbots team up to transport child
17:21 13 January 2009 - updated 17:56 13 January 2009
At the beginning of last year we brought you news of prototype swarming robots that cling together using electromagnetic forces to assume different shapes. Seth Goldstein, the lead researcher on the project, thinks that scaled down versions could swarm together...
Will future parking be perfect?
17:15 12 January 2009 - updated 17:19 12 January 2009
Cellphone anthropologist Jan Chipchase poses an interesting question: when self-parking cars become the norm, will they all be indistinguishably perfectly lined up? Or will different brands park in identifiably different ways?
Buddhists welcome science into monasteries
10:57 12 January 2009 - updated 15:43 12 January 2009
The Sarnath Buddhist monastery, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, is revered as the site of the Buddha's first discourse after his enlightment - the stream from which the teachings of Buddhism flowed. But if you visit the monastery between 20 and 31 January, you could witness the start of a new stream of Buddhist teaching...