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Green Tips For Condo, Apartment Dwellers
Condo owners and apartment dwellers, while limited to some extent in the range of upgrades they can make, can take advantage of a trove of products to whittle down their...
Dell Talking About 80-Core Chip Processor
(PhysOrg.com) -- This week Michael Dell (CEO of Dell) gave a slide presentation that included Intel´s recently developed 80-core processor. This isn't the first time that the 80-core chip was...
With Perfect Accuracy, Cornell Chemical Engineering Car Wins National Competition
With their shoebox-size car powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, the 18-member undergraduate student team placed first at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers student-car competition in Philadelphia Nov. 16,...
Can renewable energy be sustained?
Engineers and entrepreneurs are rushing to explore alternative sources of efficient and renewable energy in New Jersey and elsewhere in the country. A Rutgers School of Business - Camden professor...
First Detailed 3-D Glimpse Of Bacterial Cell-wall Architecture
The bacterial cell wall that is the target of potent antibiotics such as penicillin is actually made up of a thin single layer of carbohydrate chains, linked together by peptides,...
New filtering technology has environmental, industrial applications
Materials engineers have created a new type of membrane that separates oil from water and, if perfected, might be used for environmental cleanup, water purification and industrial applications. The new...
Nanocoatings boost industrial energy efficiency
Friction is the bane of any machine. When moving parts are subject to friction, it takes more energy to move them, the machine doesn't operate as efficiently, and the parts...
New System Proposed To Optimize Combined Energy Use
Engineers in Spain have developed an algorithm that can optimize hybrid electricity generation systems through combined use of renewable energies, such as photovoltaic and wind power, and non-renewables, such as...
Group says link auto aid to efficiency
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Any financial aid to U.S. automakers should be tied to better fuel efficiency to boost energy independence and the economy, a scientific...
What If Your Energy Supply is Gone with the Wind?
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new research program at Oregon State University proposes to tackle one of the major remaining problems with wind energy - how do you provide a steady,...
Future Cars More Recyclable
Aluminum is good for fuel economy, reduced emissions, high recyclability and improved safety.
LLNL, industry leaders to develop advanced technology cluster testbed
The National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has teamed with 10 computing industry leaders to accelerate the development of powerful next-generation Linux clusters in a project dubbed...
Precise measurement of phenomenon advances solar cell understanding
"One type of solar cell design starts with a chain of chromophores strung between two electrodes," explained Dewey Holten, Ph.D., professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences. "This chain absorbs...
Video - Floating Droplets
Long and close-up views of droplets rolling while suspended over a vibrating oil bath.
Quantum Anomaly and the Origin of Time
After last week's speculations on time I would like to ask an even deeper question: why is there time? read more
Technology gives 3-D view of human coronary arteries
For the first time researchers are getting a detailed look at the interior of human coronary arteries, using an optical imaging technique developed at the Wellman Centre for Photomedicine at...
Billions of particles of anti-matter created in laboratory
Take a gold sample the size of the head of a push pin, shoot a laser through it, and suddenly more than 100 billion particles of anti-matter appear. read more
Long, Thick, Slimy, Dirty and Filmed for the First Time Ever...
It's exciting - very exciting. What do you think it is? No, it's not that! Sicko! Unless you're a Coprophiliac... read more
Can a single molecule behave as a mirror?
(PhysOrg.com) -- “We have shown for the first time, theoretically, that a single molecule can behave as a perfect mirror,” Mario Agio tells PhysOrg.com. “Imagine that your mirror at home...
Thank Journalist, Rather Than Pilgrims, For Thanksgiving Feast
Historians explain that the current version of Thanksgiving was created by a journalistic crusader, and would have been unrecognizable to the Pilgrims it supposedly honors.
Hazardous Alternatives To Alcohol Beverages Are Still Widely Available In Russia
Non-beverage alcohols are manufactured liquids that contain alcohol but are not intended for consumption, such as medicinal tinctures, aftershave, alcohol-based anti-freeze, antiseptics, and eau-de-colognes. A survey of 17 Russian cities...
Dancing droplets
Our blood, sweat and tears are three precious fluids that can answer lots of questions about the state of our health but testing small amounts of bodily fluids, without contaminating...
Most Efficient Silicon-based OLED Microdisplay In The World
Offering better comfort to users of point-and-shoot digital cameras, and new designs for video glasses with the highest resolution ever, Microoled and the CEA-Leti have targeted these and many other...
Vans Go Green: Novel Spoiler Design Reduces Fuel Consumption
Research published in the International Journal of Vehicle Design, the team describes how a new vehicle spoiler design can improve fuel consumption as well as vehicle handling.
Physicists Steer Electrons With Laser Pulses
Three theoretical physicists explained how attosecond laser pulses can be used to direct the motion of an electron inside a hydrogen molecule, and what the measurable consequences of this control...
Invention pumps water uphill for energy
LONDON, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- A British inventor has created the Searaser -- a device that uses the motion of waves to pump water uphill to drive hydroelectric...
Fujitsu Develops Video-Processing Technology Enabling World's First Wraparound View of Vehicles in Real Time
Fujitsu Laboratories announced today the development of a new video-processing technology that enables a complete wraparound view of a vehicle's perimeter in real time, to enhance the driver's field...
Nissan Cuts In Half Amount of Precious Metals Required in Catalysts
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nissan Motor Company Inc. has announced a new ultra-low precious metal catalyst that will cut in half the amount of precious metals used by car manufacturers. The new...