 Portuguese team makes first paper based transistor July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Elvira Fortunato and colleagues from the Centro de Investigação de Materiais (Cenimat/I3N), at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, made the first Field Effect ... | |
How intense will storms get? New model helps answer question July 08, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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A new mathematical model indicates that dust devils, water spouts, tornadoes, hurricanes and cyclones are all born of the same mechanism and will intensify as climate change warms the Earth's surface. | |
 NASA engineers work on alternative moon rocket July 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 56 vote(s)
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(AP) -- By day, the engineers work on NASA's new Ares moon rockets. By night, some go undercover to work on a competing design. These dissenting scientists and their backers insist they have created an alternative ... | |
 Unknown molecule opens the door to quantum computing June 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 80 vote(s)
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The odd behavior of a molecule in an experimental silicon computer chip has led to a discovery that opens the door to quantum computing in semiconductors. | |
 Advance brings low-cost, bright LED lighting closer to reality July 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 66 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. | |
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 ... | |
 Sharp Unveils Solar-Powered TV July 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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For the 1.6 billion people living in areas without utility-supplied electricity, Sharp has designed a TV that can get 100% of its power from the sun. The company plans to exhibit the 26-inch LCD prototype ... | |
Looking for neutralinos at the Large Hadron Collider July 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 63 vote(s)
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“We are looking at the heavens, and using the very biggest things to help up predict what will happen with the very smallest things,” David Toback tells PhysOrg.com. Toback is a professor at Texas A&M University in ... | |
 Internet flaw could let hackers take over the Web (Update) July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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Computer industry heavyweights are hustling to fix a flaw in the foundation of the Internet that would let hackers control traffic on the World Wide Web. | |
 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 ... | |
 Universal Power Adapter Offers Alternative to Wall Warts July 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 53 vote(s)
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When Doug Palmer realized he had forgotten his mobile phone adapter on a vacation in Mexico several years ago, the first thought that crossed his mind was, "There has to be a better way." | |
 GM to build world's biggest rooftop solar station in Spain July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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US automaker General Motors said Tuesday it will equip the roof of its factory in Zaragoza in northeastern Spain with solar panels to create the world's largest rooftop source of power from the sun. | |
 Carbon Nanotube Windmills Powered by 'Electron Wind' July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 63 vote(s)
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Theoretical physicists from Lancaster University in the UK have designed a nanomotor that operates by a novel mechanism: an electron wind. | |
 Only seven years left for global warming target: UN panel chief July 04, 2008 | User rating: 2.9 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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The head of the UN's Nobel-winning panel of climate scientists on Friday said only seven years remained for stabilising emissions of global-warming gases at a level widely considered safe. | |
Could hadron collider devour the Earth? June 28, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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Particle colliders creating black holes that could devour the Earth. Sounds like a great Hollywood script. But, according to UC Santa Barbara Physics Professor Steve Giddings, it's pure fiction. | |
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