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Wearing 25 kilos of body protection, Christobal Huet starts his training as goalkeeper of the Fribourg ice hockey team in Switzerland. He gives an impression of explosive power speeding over the ice. But this is a very different kind of ice from that which Huet has skated on before — it never melts, because it is synthetic.

A mobile recycling facility being tested in eastern and southern Europe is aiming to get the most from electronic waste.

There is a electrifying new way to squeeze more from an ancient resource – olives. “We have improved the olive oil extraction process by using a technology based on a pulsed electric field,” explained Arturo Portugal, a research engineer at CRIC.

One of Spain’s most iconic paintings – Pablo Picasso’s Guernica is undergoing a hi-tech health check.

Japanese Consumer electronics giant Panasonic has warned it is heading for a record annual net loss of 7.78 billion euros.

Scientists are putting the finishing touches to a new way of harvesting electricity from light.

The power and compact nature of fibre lasers means they are great for industry, but now French firm Quantel is looking to take them into a whole new spectrum of applications.

European scientists are sharing a sweet new solution to one of the bitter enemies of chocolate making.

This tannery in Silla, Spain, has made its leather production greener and safer with a new technology developed as part of an EU-funded research project.

Ryszard Parosa, Supervising Board President at ATON-HT SA explained: “We have developed a new technology for the treatment of materials that contain asbestos.”

Now a series of satellites are getting right up close to this fascinating planet

A new irrigation system is set to reduce costs and save water.

French scientists near Paris have discovered a new molecule for treating pain. This could be life-changing for patients suffering from various rare genetic diseases resulting in severe chronic daily pain, for example.

Charlie Jones believes he’s been given a second chance at life, thanks to a new drug specifically designed to target advanced skin cancer.

Deep in the Pacific Ocean, on coral reefs off the coast of Peru, scientists have found three rare types of starfish.

The international group of scientists has created the transistor consisting of one atom of phosphorus, placed on a silicon substrate.

Scientists have successfully defrozen seeds of the plant which have got to the Siberian permafrost approximately 30 thousand years ago then have grown up some bushes of fossil flora. Biologists have published the conclusions in article in magazine Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The American astronomers have studied the pictures received by an orbital observatory Hubble, and on their basis have allocated a new class of planets - the water worlds with dense and thick atmosphere, whose sizes and weight more terrestrial, but it is less, than at Uranium

Experts from the Maastricht university have created a site of a muscular fabric from of deckman cages which are going to make meat from in 2012. It will be the first meat received in vitro

Group of medics from Belgium and the Netherlands in cooperation with Xilloc company have made an artificial bottom jaw for implantation with the 3D-print technologies.

Soon it will be more comfortable to read electronic books than paper. The research group of the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) declares about it, developing an application with the name Smart E-book System.

Advice first: Be led away. "I do not have some special talent. I am simply extremely curious."

Researchers in area of chemistry and biology said that in future people might have a possibility to hear motions of bacteria when those move from one organism to other.

Scientists found out a boundary layer at the atmosphere of Titan that was before considered as a prerogative of earthly atmosphere

USA scientists developed the new type of brain research by which it is possible to get his complete three-dimensional image.

In the distance 40 light years from Earth there is a planet, possessing striking property to be periodically inverted so, that its North pole and South pole switch places.

The on principle new type of computers is developed by scientists – notebook which convolves in a roll.

From data of developer of anti-virus software McAfee, most viruses, produced in 2011 for mobile devices, were done for the operating system of Android.

The American orbital vehicle of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took picture motion of Martian Dunes.

The scientists of scientific research institute of physical and organic chemistry of Sonth Federal University created the model of method of delivery of medicine straight to the sick organ.