Forget airbags, silicon breasts will do
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A woman in the northern Bulgarian town of Ruse survived a car crash thanks to her silicon breasts which acted as an airbag, a newspaper has reported.
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Companies will use strained silicon to boost transistor speed.
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NASA's redesigned space shuttle fuel tanks should no longer shed dangerous pieces of foam when launches resume next spring, officials said Thursday.
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Materials that could allow levitating trains and ultra powerful computers to become commonplace are coming of age
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Blog: Add carbon dioxide, water, heat. Serves cars.
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Don't forget to consider a company's ability to obtain silicon wafers.
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Body-powered RFID just one exciting app Boffins working at MIT and Texas Instruments believe they're on the road to new chip designs which consume significantly less power, promising a revolution in many fields of electronics. The research was funded by DARPA*, the US warboffinry bureau which considers that the only place for a walking tour is the wild side.â¦
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Science & environment: AI experts say societies will have to tackle a new prejudice against individuals with brains made of silicon
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Shout-outs to MIT. Women eating carbs. The annual Hollywood geekfest known as the Sci-Tech Oscars couldn't be more different from the glitzy main event later this month
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A breakthrough in the way scientists make crystals could lead to a replacement for silicon as the basis for making chips in electronic devices.
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Michelin engineers envision a future in which vehicles would ride on what they call the Tweel, a combined tire and wheel that could never go flat because it contains no air.
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An experimental ultrasound technique that measures how easily breast lumps compress and bounce back could enable doctors to determine instantly whether a woman has cancer or not without doing a biopsy.
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Magnetic resonance imaging is roiling the field of breast cancer medicine. Currently, mammograms, which use X-rays, are the standard screening tool.
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Texas Instruments Inc. engineers and MIT researchers say they've designed a new chip that consumes less power and can be used in devices as varied as medical implants and sensors that detect enemy tanks.
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New sensor technology is not limited to tracking mileage.
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Automakers are pitching hands-free technology as a safe way to rein in the expanding clutter of gadgetry, but these devices are probably not as safe as you think.
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In an advance that could lead to lighter spacecraft and smarter cars, researchers have developed a new technique for producing a high-quality semiconductor that&#39;s much more resistant to extreme conditions than the silicon found in most of today&#39;s