Gallons per mile would help car shoppers make better decisions June 19, 2008 | User rating: 2.9 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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Posting a vehicle's fuel efficiency in "gallons per mile" rather than "miles per gallon" would help consumers make better decisions about car purchases and environmental impact, researchers from Duke University's Fuqua School ... | |
 Researchers create mercury-absorbent container linings for broken CFLs June 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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With rising energy prices and greater concern over global warming, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) are having a successful run. Sales of the curlicue, energy-sipping bulbs, which previously had languished ... | |
A 'New Dimension' at the LHC July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 68 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Later this year, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, will begin operating, sending beams of protons hurling around circular tracks ... | |
 Pittsburgh cancer center warns of cell phone risks July 24, 2008 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer. | |
A Critique of Shortsighted Anthropic Principles May 16, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 59 vote(s)
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Many people marvel that we live in a universe that seems to be precisely tailored to suit the development of intelligent life. The observation is the basis for some forms of "Anthropic Principles" that strive to explain why ... | |
Computer models show major climate shift as a result of closing ozone hole June 12, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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A new study led by Columbia University researchers has found that the closing of the ozone hole, which is projected to occur sometime in the second half of the 21st century, may significantly affect climate change in the ... | |
Room temperature superconductivity: One step closer to the Holy Grail of physics July 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 112 vote(s)
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Scientists at the University of Cambridge have for the first time identified a key component to unravelling the mystery of room temperature superconductivity, according to a paper published in today's edition of the scientific ... | |
Giant garbage patch floating in Pacific October 22, 2007 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 304 vote(s)
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An enormous island of trash twice the size of Texas is floating in the Pacific Ocean somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii. | |
 'Squeezed' Light May Improve Gravitational Wave Detectors June 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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A research collaboration has taken steps toward improving the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors, devices designed to measure distance changes as minute as one-thousandth the diameter of a proton. ... | |
 Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World July 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of the moon transiting (passing in front of) Earth as seen from the spacecraft's point of view 31 million miles away. Scientists are using ... | |
First Solar: Quest for the $1 Watt July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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Photovoltaic cells, once so costly they could be used only to power million-dollar satellites, are today turning up even on humble parking meters. Now a brash Tempe, Ariz., company called First Solar plans to take the technology ... | |
 Hitachi, GE to develop smaller nuclear reactors July 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Japan's Hitachi and US giant General Electric will team up to sell midsize nuclear reactors to meet growing demand for power facilities in Southeast Asia, a Hitachi spokesman said Wednesday. | |
 Solar Cells with 60% Efficiency? January 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 155 vote(s)
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Nuclear Engineer Lonnie Johnson, best known for his invention of the super soaker squirt gun, has recently designed a new type of solar energy technology that he says can achieve a conversion efficiency rate ... | |
 100 Explosions on the Moon May 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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Not so long ago, anyone claiming to see flashes of light on the Moon would be viewed with deep suspicion by professional astronomers. Such reports were filed under "L" ... for lunatic. | |
 Team hopes to use new technology to search for ETs June 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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A Johns Hopkins astronomer is a member of a team briefing fellow scientists about plans to use new technology to take advantage of recent, promising ideas on where to search for possible extraterrestrial intelligence ... | |
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