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• New super-fast MRI technique demonstrated with song 'If I Only Had a Brain'
• New tabletop detector 'sees' single electrons
• Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years
• Whiteboards of the future: New electronic paper could make inexpensive electronic displays
• Printing silicon on paper, with lasers
• Ten more years of real money?
• Horizonal gene transfer: Sweet potato naturally 'genetically modified'

New super-fast MRI technique demonstrated with song 'If I Only Had a Brain' Posted: 21 Apr 2015 10:21 AM PDT With a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique, the vocal neuromuscular movements of singing and speaking can now be captured at 100 frames per second. The sound of the voice is created in the larynx, located in the neck. When we sing or speak, the vocal folds--the two small pieces of tissue--come together and, as air passes over them, they vibrate, which produces sound. After 10 years of working as a professional singer in Chicago choruses, a researcher's passion for vocal performance stemmed into study to understand the voice and its neuromuscular system, with a particular interest in the aging voice.

New tabletop detector 'sees' single electrons Posted: 21 Apr 2015 10:21 AM PDT Physicists have developed a new tabletop particle detector that is able to identify single electrons in a radioactive gas.

Strontium atomic clock accurate to the second -- over 15 billion years Posted: 21 Apr 2015 10:20 AM PDT In another advance at the far frontiers of timekeeping , the latest modification of a record-setting strontium atomic clock has achieved precision and stability levels that now mean the clock would neither gain nor lose one second in some 15 billion years -- roughly the age of the universe.

Whiteboards of the future: New electronic paper could make inexpensive electronic displays Posted: 21 Apr 2015 08:12 AM PDT A simple structure of bi-colored balls made of tough, inexpensive materials is well suited for large handwriting-enabled e-paper displays.

Printing silicon on paper, with lasers Posted: 21 Apr 2015 08:12 AM PDT In seeking to develop the next generation of micro-electronic transistors, researchers have long sought to find the next best thing to replace silicon. To this end, a wealth of recent research into fully flexible electronic circuitry has focused on various organic and metal-oxide ink materials, which often lack all the favorable electronic properties of silicon but offer superior "printability." Recently, a group of researchers has pioneered a method that allows silicon itself, in the polycrystalline form used in circuitry, to be produced directly on a substrate from liquid silicon ink with a single laser pulse -- potentially ousting its pale usurpers.

Ten more years of real money? Posted: 21 Apr 2015 05:44 AM PDT We will still be using "real" money for at least the next 5 to 10 years, but financial transactions carried out using mobile electronic devices, such as smart phones and tablet computers, will increasingly become the norm during that time period, according to research.

Horizonal gene transfer: Sweet potato naturally 'genetically modified' Posted: 21 Apr 2015 05:42 AM PDT Sweet potatoes from all over the world naturally contain genes from the bacterium Agrobacterium, researchers report. Sweet potato is one of the most important food crops for human consumption in the world. Because of the presence of this "foreign" DNA, sweet potato can be seen as a "natural GMO," the researchers say.

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