 Engineers Prove Graphene is the Strongest Material July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research scientists at Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science have achieved a breakthrough by proving that the carbon material graphene is the strongest ... | |
Giant garbage patch floating in Pacific October 22, 2007 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 305 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 33 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 ... | |
 Solar Cells with 60% Efficiency? January 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 156 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: 4.5 / 5 after 56 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 ... | |
 What's Wrong with the Sun? (Nothing) July 11, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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Stop the presses! The sun is behaving normally. So says NASA solar physicist David Hathaway. "There have been some reports lately that Solar Minimum is lasting longer than it should. That's not true. The ongoing ... | |
 Advance brings low-cost, bright LED lighting closer to reality July 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 68 vote(s)
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Researchers at Purdue University have overcome a major obstacle in reducing the cost of "solid state lighting," a technology that could cut electricity consumption by 10 percent if widely adopted. | |
 Phoenix Mars Lander Works Through the Night July 22, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- To coordinate with observations made by an orbiter flying repeatedly overhead, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is working a schedule Monday that includes staying awake all night for the first time. ... | |
Material may help autos turn heat into electricity July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 60 vote(s)
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Researchers have invented a new material that will make cars even more efficient, by converting heat wasted through engine exhaust into electricity. In the current issue of the journal Science, they describe a material ... | |
Proposed Particle Help Explains Odd Galactic Photons July 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 72 vote(s)
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In 2002, a satellite called INTEGRAL was launched by the European Space Agency with an instrument on board to detect and measure gamma rays from space. Four years later, it yielded some intriguing data: An unusually high ... | |
 Virgin Galactic unveils space tourism craft 'WhiteKnightTwo' (Update 2) July 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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British tycoon Richard Branson on Monday unveiled a futuristic aircraft that will ferry tourists to the edge of the heavens as part of Virgin Galactic's much-anticipated space program. | |
Compressor-free refrigerator may loom in the future August 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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Refrigerators and other cooling devices may one day lose their compressors and coils of piping and become solid state, according to Penn State researchers who are investigating electrically induced heat effects of some ferroelectric ... | |
First stars might have been powered by dark matter February 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 62 vote(s)
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For a long time, scientists have assumed that the very first stars were powered by fusion, in processes similar to what goes on in present day stars. But a new theory is emerging to challenge that view. “The first stars were ... | |
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