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Harnessing The Sun
Solar Power: Energy Department event showcases the possibilities of advanced solar power technology.
Scientists build a better fuel cell
CALGARY, Alberta, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Canadian scientists say they have discovered a new material that can help increase the efficiency and decrease the cost of fuel cells.
Congress passes hydrogen car funding bill
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. Congress has passed an appropriations bill providing funds for hydrogen car development that critics say is unrealistic and a waste of money.
Can't Afford Solar Panels? Lease Them
Solar Leasing Programs Boast No Upfront Cost and Can Cut Energy Bills, or Even Leave Consumers with a Monthly Surplus
Energy-autonomous Sensors Find Dents And Cracks In Aircraft
Aircraft maintenance will be easier in future, with sensors monitoring the aircraft skin. If they discover any dents or cracks they will send a radio message to a monitoring unit....
Voids of Vision And Mind = Constituents of Final Physical Matter
VOIDS OF VISION AND MIND = CONSTITUENTS OF FINAL PHYSICAL MATTER October 3, 2009 Ayad Gharbawi
Composted Dairy Manure In Foliage Plant Production
Peat has been used in container plant production since the 1960s. Highly porous and able to hold water, peat makes an ideal rooting and growing medium. But harvesting peat (and...
Richard Yamamoto, physics professor, dies at age 74
Richard Yamamoto, a physicist whose work revealed the interactions of subatomic particles, died today at the age of 74 from complications of lung cancer. Yamamoto, who was born and raised in Hawaii, came...
Collider cooled to deep space temps
GENEVA, Switzerland, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Europe's Large Hadron Collider has been chilled to temperatures colder than deep space for its restart next month, scientists said.
SanDisk Ships Flash Memory Cards With 64 Gigabit X4 NAND Technology
SanDisk announced it has begun production shipments of flash memory cards based on the company's advanced X4 flash memory technology. This innovative new technology holds four bits of data in...
Quantum computers could tackle enormous linear equations
Trillions of variables may prove no match for envisioned systems
More efficient solar power with space technology
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new system from an Italian company uses weather satellite data to estimate the potential of solar cell power plants and monitor their performance. The approach helps to...
Cars that Run on Cow Power?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Race cars have long provided a testing ground for driving technology that we eventually see in passenger cars on the road. To this end, an engineering team in...
Indian arsenic clean-up 'working well'
Researchers say that a chemical-free arsenic decontamination method is proving successful in an Indian village.
New science approach to revolutionize welding
A multi-million pound engineering research project is using advanced thinking to revolutionise the welding industry - and offering the prospect of saving lives.
Physicists Calculate Exact Number of Alternate Universes
There are 10^10^16 of them (but #1,000,443,163,313,125,343,132 is the evil one) For some time, physicists have theorized about the existence of alternate universes. In fact, some models of physics require multiple universes, to...
Colourful polymers on demand
New polymer-based material can change from clear to multi-coloured right through to opaque black at the flick of a switch
Going plasmonic in search of faster computing, communications
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of European researchers has demonstrated some of the first commercially viable plasmonic devices, paving the way for a new era of high-speed communications and computing in...
Physicist wins Packard Fellowship
(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT physicist Pablo Jarillo-Herrero has won a 2009 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, an award he will use to study a new class of materials that could have...
Field experiment on a robust hierarchical metropolitan quantum cryptography network
Key Laboratory of Quantum Information (CAS), University of Science and Technology of China has recently demonstrated a metropolitan Quantum Cryptography Network (QCN) for Government Administration in Wuhu, China. The project...
Super sticky barnacle glue cures like blood clots
Barnacles are a big problem for boats. Adhering to the undersides of vessels, carpets of the crustaceans can increase fuel consumption by as much as 25%. Ship owners would love...
Does Intelligence Exist Within The Laws Of Physics?
DOES INTELLIGENCE EXIST WITHIN THE LAWS OF PHYSICS? Ayad Gharbawi October 2, 2009 Can it be possible that the atoms simply ‘know’ what to do as they interact with other atoms and molecules?...
Las Gaviotas Journal: An Isolated Village Finds the Energy to Keep Going
Visitors to Las Gaviotas can get a glimpse into a four-decade experiment to alter civilization’s dependence on finite fossil fuels and industrial agriculture.
Graphene: Unravelling the secrets of a magic material
UCL researchers are helping to unlock the secrets of a material that could ultimately be used in a new generation of electronic devices.
Brilliant! Roof Tiles Change Color to Save Energy
MIT graduates has developed roof tiles that change color based on the temperature.
Laser Fusion And Exawatt Lasers
In the recent past, producing lasers with terawatt (a trillion watts) beams was impressive. Now petawatt (a thousand trillion watts, or 10^15 watts) lasers are the forefront of laser research....
Nanoscale structures revealed on Diamond's latest beamline
On Monday 12th October, a team of scientists from the University of Bath became the first researchers to use the UK`s national synchrotron facility`s latest experimental station (I07). Designed for...
Golgi's job stretches it thin
Role of a crucial protein helps answer why the cell’s transportation hub looks like a stack of pancakes