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Turning visual ‘noise’ into better vision

News: Communications    April 3, 2010
At first sight, this research has counterintuitive results: Using the ‘noise’ (like ‘snow’ in a television picture, or random bad pixels in a picture) to make an image better. Normally you want this kind of noise removed from an image, but two researchers at Princeton University (New Jersey, USA) have developed a way to use [...]
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Renault goes all-in for all-electric vehicles

News: Clean Transportation    October 23, 2009
It’s nice to see that at least some big car makers have electric sparks in their eyes. From the pages of The Economist: OVER the past few weeks Renault has been giving politicians, journalists and big commercial customers across Europe the chance to drive a slightly odd-looking battery-powered vehicle based on its Kangoo, a small [...]
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Hand-held cancer detection device

News: Nanomedicine    October 1, 2009
Trekkers will remember Dr. McCoy carrying a hand-held device which could instantly diagnose (and often treat) diseases. We aren’t there yet, but this development is indicative of where we’re going: University of Toronto researchers have used nanomaterials to develop a microchip sensitive enough to quickly determine the type and severity of a patient’s cancer so [...]
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