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10-25-2007
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| |  Space sensors shed new light on air quality
Air pollution is becoming one of the biggest dangers for the future of the planet, causing premature deaths of humans and damaging flora and fauna. With their vantage point from space, satellites are the only way to carry out effective global measurements of air-polluting emissions and...  |
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10-22-2007
by C1ay | |
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| | Getting Light to Bend Backwards
A Princeton-led research team has created an easy-to-produce material from the stuff of computer chips that has the rare ability to bend light in the opposite direction from all naturally occurring materials. This startling property may contribute to significant advances in many areas,... |
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10-19-2007
by C1ay | |
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| | Astrophysicist Replaces Supercomputer with Eight PlayStation 3s
Suffering from its exorbitant price point and a dearth of titles, Sony's PlayStation 3 isn't exactly the most popular gaming platform on the block. But while the console flounders in the commercial space, the PS3 may be finding a new calling in the realm of science and research.
Right now,... |
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10-17-2007
by C1ay | |
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| | Are the theories of relativity real?
What evidence is there that the theories of relativity are actually laws? Are they applicable? If you must assume certain conditions in the creation of a hypothesis without being able to reproduce the same conditions, then what have you proven? The assumptions that we create make... |
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10-17-2007
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| | U-M research: New plastic is strong as steel, transparent
By mimicking a brick-and-mortar molecular structure found in seashells, University of Michigan researchers created a composite plastic that's as strong as steel but lighter and transparent.
It's made of layers of clay nanosheets and a water-soluble polymer that shares chemistry with... |
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10-08-2007
by C1ay | |
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| | Even Without Math, Ancients Engineered Sophisticated Machines
Move over, Archimedes. A researcher at Harvard University is finding that ancient Greek craftsmen were able to engineer sophisticated machines without necessarily understanding the mathematical theory behind their construction.
Recent analysis of technical treatises and literary... |
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10-02-2007
by Pyrotex | |
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| | Digital Cable Goes Quantum
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have transferred information between two “artificial atoms” by way of electronic vibrations on a microfabricated aluminum cable, demonstrating a new component for potential ultra-powerful quantum computers of the future. ... |
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09-27-2007
by C1ay | |
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| | Lucky Cam
Astronomers from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Cambridge have developed a new camera that produces much more detailed pictures of stars and nebulae than even the Hubble Space Telescope, and it does all this from here on Earth. ... |
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09-21-2007
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09-18-2007
by C1ay | |
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| | Pellets of power
Hydrogen may prove to be the fuel of the future in powering the efficient, eco-friendly fuel cell vehicles of tomorrow. Developing a method to safely store, dispense and easily "refuel" the vehicle's storage material with hydrogen has baffled researchers for years. ... |
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09-11-2007
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09-05-2007
by Qfwfq | |
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| | Photon-transistors for the supercomputers of the future
Scientist from the Niels Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen and from Harvard University have worked out a new theory which describe how the necessary transistors for the quantum computers of the future may be created.
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08-30-2007
by LaurieAG | |
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| | Beyond Batteries: Storing Power in a Sheet of Paper
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new energy storage device that easily could be mistaken for a simple sheet of black paper.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/paperbattery_thumb.jpgThe nanoengineered battery is lightweight, ultra thin,... |
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08-19-2007
by sanctus | |
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| |  SCO Loses
Judge Dale Kimball has issued a 102-page ruling on the numerous summary judgment motions in SCO v. Novell. Here is what matters most from the first line of the judge's conclusion:
Finally, we get to watch the dominos fall as SCO withers and dies :)
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08-15-2007
by C1ay | |
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| | Scientist float levitation theory
Theoretical physicists at the University of St Andrews have created 'incredible levitation effects' by engineering the force of nature which normally causes objects to stick together by quantum force. By reversing this phenomenon, known as 'Casimir force', the scientists hope to solve... |
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08-06-2007
by C1ay | |
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| | Quantum Square Dance
Physicists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have induced thousands of atoms trapped by laser beams to swap "spins" with partners simultaneously.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/qbits_thumb.jpgThe repeated exchanges, like a... |
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08-02-2007
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08-01-2007
by C1ay | |
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| | MIT duo see people-powered "Crowd Farm"
Two graduate students at MIT's School of Architecture and Planning want to harvest the energy of human movement in urban settings, like commuters in a train station or fans at a concert.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/sap-crowd.jpgThe so-called "Crowd Farm," as envisioned by... |
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07-27-2007
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| | Tightly packed molecules lend unexpected strength
Scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have discovered the surprising strength of a sheet of nanoparticles that measures just 50 atoms in thickness.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/nanosheet_thumb.jpg"It's an amazing little marvel," said... |
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07-23-2007
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