Microfiber fabric makes its own electricity?
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. scientists have developed a microfiber fabric that generates its own electricity, making enough current to recharge a cell phone or ensure that a small MP3 music player never runs out of power. feeds.reuters.com
UW students help El Salvadoran towns build wastewater system
New Year's Eve in Nejapa, El Salvador, looks a lot like the Fourth of July. At Griselda Guzman's house, homemade fireworks lighted the front yard, where the guests dancing outside her pale yellow home included 11 University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students and three advisers. news.wisc.edu
China's "prodigy program" to mark 30th anniversary
China's first program for gifted youngsters is to celebrate its 30th birthday on Friday in east China's Anhui Province. The prodigy program, or the "Juvenile Class", was set up at the University of Science and Technology of China (U ... english.people.com.cn
Hubble telescope captures crashing galaxies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Images of colliding galaxies show them spinning, sliding and slipping into one another, wreaking stellar destruction that will give birth to new and larger galaxies. feeds.reuters.com