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Washington, Sept 3 : Scientists at Boston College have created nanonets, by using titanium and silicon in a two-dimensional network of wires that resemble flat, rectangular netting – a finding critical to improving the performance of electronics and energy applications.
The nanonets are a flexible webbing of nano-scale wires that multiplies surface area critical to improving the performance of the wires in electronics and energy applications.
Washington, Sept 3 : Researchers in the US have used a new way to predict outbreaks of cholera - a water-borne infectious disease.
According to the researchers, this new technique could potentially control outbreaks of other important infectious diseases.
The bacterium that causes cholera, Vibrio cholerae, has a known association with a crustacean (called a copepod), which lives on zooplankton, a type of plankton.
Cholera outbreaks have been associated with environmental factors, including sea surface temperature, ocean height, and biomass.
London, Sept 2 : With Sony launching its electronic book reader that can store upto 160 tomes including classics by Charles Dickens and Jane Austen, experts are arguing that the technological advancement will kill off the traditional paperbacks.
The Sony Reader, priced at 199 pounds, will give buyers a choice of tens of thousands of ebooks to downloaded from the Waterstone''s website.
To savour the classics, people will have to connect the Sony Reader to their home computers.
London, Sept 2 : The new Samsung i8510 promises to give competition to most of the compact digital cameras, say experts.
With an eight-megapixel image sensor producing images of identical quality to most digital compact cameras, the new Samsung phone could be regarded as a milestone in camera phones.
Equipped with a flash, the i8510 can also detect when people in the picture are smiling.
Washington, Sept 3 : Scientists at Boston College have created nanonets, by using titanium and silicon in a two-dimensional network of wires that resemble flat, rectangular netting – a finding critical to improving the performance of electronics and energy applications.
London, Sept 2 : With Sony launching its electronic book reader that can store upto 160 tomes including classics by Charles Dickens and Jane Austen, experts are arguing that the technological advancement will kill off the traditional paperbacks. 
London, Sept 2 : The new Samsung i8510 promises to give competition to most of the compact digital cameras, say experts.
