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Swiss algorithm tracks crime, rumours, epidemics to source
Scientists in Switzerland said on Friday they had devised software that can swiftly trace terror suspects, computer viruses, rumour-mongering and even infectious diseases back to their source.
10 August 2012
Kazakhstan genetics bred TBC-preventing carrots
Kazakhstan scientists managed to inject TBC germ into a root crop and create an edible vaccine.
07 August 2012
NASA confident ahead of nail-biter Mars landing
All was well ahead of its nail-biting mission to Mars, with its most advanced robotic rover poised to hunt for clues about past life and water on Earth's nearest planetary neighbor.
03 August 2012
Scientists treat ulcers with 'spray-on skin'
Scientists said Friday they had developed a revolutionary "spray-on skin" treatment for venous leg ulcers -- a common ailment involving a shallow, open and stubborn wound on the ankle or lower leg.
03 August 2012
New vigour in quest for Higgs boson
Heartened by a glimpse of what may be the Higgs boson, scientists at the CERN physics lab are smashing particles with new vigour in a quest to understand why matter has mass and other riddles of the natural universe.
01 August 2012
Lab-engineered jellyfish may mend a broken heart
Using cells from rat hearts and a seer polymer film, scientists on Sunday reported they had created an artificial jellyfish that could one day help save patients with heart disease.
24 July 2012
'No excuse' for not turning tide on AIDS: expert
Science has given the world "no excuse" to resist bold action against the spread of the 30-year AIDS pandemic, said a top US expert at the opening of the International AIDS Conference on Sunday.
24 July 2012
Are athletic records reaching their limits?
Some scientists say sporting records are starting to flatline and one day will become near impossible to beat without drugs, gene splicing or futuristic technology.
18 July 2012
Kazakhstan invention can save $200 million a year for thermal power stations
Kazakhstan scientists have developed a plasma technology for burning coal at thermal power stations.
17 July 2012
Sri Lankans baptise new fish genus for atheist Dawkins
Sri Lankan scientists have identified a new genus of fresh water fish and named it after the evolutionary biologist and renowned atheist Richard Dawkins.
17 July 2012
Fat studies conference challenges supersize stereotypes
Cat Pause proudly describes herself as "fat", can live with euphemisms like "curvy", "chunky" or "chubby", but baulks at what she believes are value-laden labels such as "overweight" or "obese".
14 July 2012
Scientists say NASA's 'new form of life' was untrue
Two scientific papers published Sunday disproved a controversial claim made by NASA-funded scientists in 2010 that a new form of bacterial life had been discovered that could thrive on arsenic.
09 July 2012
Kazakhstan will squeeze oil from sand and clay
Kazakhstan scientists have invented a new technology of oil extraction from sand and clay.
08 July 2012
Crunch time looms in quest for 'God particle'
A nearly 50-year bid to explain a riddle of fundamental matter faces a key moment on Wednesday when physicists unveil fresh data in their search for a particle called the Higgs boson.
04 July 2012
Kazakhstan wants to sell innovative technologies
Kazakhstan Ministry of Industry and New Technologies has developed the projects to step up technologies commercialization in Kazakhstan.
02 July 2012
Kazakhstan nanotechnologists working on diamond coating
Head of Optical and Electric Research Methods Laboratory told about the prospects of nanotechnologies development in Kazakhstan.
29 June 2012
Kazakhstan scientists in search for investors to produce validol
Kazakhstan scientists have developed a technology to produce validol of high purity.
29 June 2012
Kazakhstan will start making oil from coal
Kazakhstan scientists have developed a new technology of oil production from coal.
28 June 2012
High capacity solar battery invented in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan scientists have developed an improved solar battery that produces seven times more energy than its other existing equivalents.
27 June 2012
More than 80 people develop cancer in Kazakhstan daily
More than 30 thousand people develop different types of cancer in Kazakhstan annually. This makes more than 80 people a day.
26 June 2012