http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. The National Robotics Engineering Center, (NREC) at Carnegie Mellon University is at the forefront of partnering man with technology to improve safety and costs. Among the completed projects are, the Caisson Construction 3D Modeling system used in the construction of the Nagasaki Bay Bridge, the Micro-Inertial Navigation Technology (MINT) a satellite free tracking system and a Strawberry Plant Sorter for California's growers. http://www.physorg.com/news180599037.html Technology Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:41:10 EST news180599037 (PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford engineers have built what they believe is a chip with the most advanced computing and storage elements made of carbon nanotubes to date by devising a way to root out the stubborn complication of nanotubes that cause short circuits. http://www.physorg.com/news179596676.html Nanotechnology Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:58:58 EST news179596676 (PhysOrg.com) -- The huge increases in the power and capacity of computers, cell phones and communications networks in the last 40 years have been the result of ever-shrinking silicon transistors. But silicon transistors are now getting so small that they`re running up against fundamental physical limits: soon, it will be impossible to squeeze any better performance out of them. http://www.physorg.com/news179518970.html Technology Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:25:46 EST news179518970 (PhysOrg.com) -- Donhee Ham, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, uses his personal energy and understanding of physics to design innovative integrated circuits. http://www.physorg.com/news179085037.html Physics Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:50:02 EST news179085037 An international team of applied scientists from Harvard, Hamamatsu Photonics, and ETH Zürich have demonstrated compact, multibeam, and multi-wavelength lasers emitting in the invisible part of the light spectrum (infrared). By contrast, typical lasers emit a single light beam of a well-defined wavelength. The innovative multibeam lasers have potential use in applications related to remote chemical sensing pollution monitoring, optical wireless, and interferometry. http://www.physorg.com/news178804893.html Physics Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:40:01 EST news178804893 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new application for the Android smartphone shows users and software developers how much power their applications are consuming. PowerTutor was developed by doctoral students and professors at the University of Michigan. http://www.physorg.com/news177953946.html Technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:40:06 EST news177953946 (PhysOrg.com) -- Last week, in Takoma Park, Md., a new cryptographic voting system that could ensure accurate vote counts was used for the first time in a real election. MIT`s Ron Rivest, the Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, helped develop the system and says he`s quite pleased with how the technology worked. Takoma Park`s city clerk, Jessie Carpenter, agrees that the trial "went very well." http://www.physorg.com/news177324972.html Technology Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:10:01 EST news177324972 (PhysOrg.com) -- Last Thursday, the day after the New York Yankees won their first World Series of the 21st century, MIT Institute Professor Barbara Liskov, the 2008 recipient of the Turing Award - frequently called the Nobel Prize for computer science - delivered the first lecture of the 2009 Dertouzos Lecture Series. http://www.physorg.com/news177097345.html Technology Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:20:04 EST news177097345 With the speed of computers so regularly seeing dramatic increases in their processing speed, it seems that it shouldn't be too long before the machines become infinitely fast -- except they can't. http://www.physorg.com/news174750105.html Physics Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:42:19 EST news174750105 (PhysOrg.com) -- A group of researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology has developed a handheld camera that uses microwave signals to non-destructively peek inside materials and structures in real time. http://www.physorg.com/news174054998.html Technology Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:37:14 EST news174054998 (PhysOrg.com) -- Martin Schepers of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, has developed a new intelligent shoe. It has four sensors that measure pressure and movement during walking, giving doctors a fast and accurate image of the walking pattern and enabling them to plan the right method of treatment. http://www.physorg.com/news165589174.html Technology Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:00:02 EST news165589174 (PhysOrg.com) -- MIT engineers have built a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip, modeled on the human inner ear, that could enable wireless devices capable of receiving cell phone, Internet, radio and television signals. http://www.physorg.com/news163242050.html Technology Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:01:26 EST news163242050 (PhysOrg.com) -- An intrepid group of UC San Diego undergraduate engineers designed and built a robotic mouse from scratch as part of the IEEE MicroMouse competition. http://www.physorg.com/news160761742.html Electronics Tue, 05 May 2009 17:02:54 EST news160761742 (PhysOrg.com) -- Milica Stojanovic says the best way to think about the need for better underwater communications is to consider the Titanic. http://www.physorg.com/news157915862.html Technology Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:31:37 EST news157915862 (PhysOrg.com) -- Missions to space require 'warm' boxes, which protect electronic circuitry from extreme temperatures and exposure to radiation. Electrical engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have designed and successfully tested an electronic micro amplifier that can operate directly in the space environment without protection from a warm box. http://www.physorg.com/news155847462.html Technology Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:58:43 EST news155847462 (PhysOrg.com) -- A handheld, ultra-portable device that can recognize and immediately report on a wide variety of environmental or medical compounds may eventually be possible, using a method that incorporates a mixture of biologically tagged nanowires onto integrated circuit chips, according to Penn State researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news151252040.html Nanotechnology Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:27:20 EST news151252040 (PhysOrg.com) -- A world-wide expert on wireless communications, Professor Jri Lee of the National Taiwan University (NTU) and UCLA PhD conferred has created a system on a chip (SOC) with transmission speeds 100 times faster than WiFi and 350 times faster than 3.5G cell phones. Professor Jri Lee's team broke the speed record with the SoC design which is about 1/10th the size and cost of existing chips. Preliminary figures indicate the SoC chip can be massed-produced for less than $1 per unit. http://www.physorg.com/news145636894.html Technology Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:41:34 EST news145636894