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Digital projectors making grand entrance at movies

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 29, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 4

Digital projectors should soon replace film on more than 20,000 of North America's 42,000 movie screens.


Magnetic system could be key to surgery without scars

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 26, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Physicians at UT Southwestern Medical Center and engineers at UT Arlington have collaborated to invent a groundbreaking system that could be key to delivering on the promise of surgery without scars.


Saliva can help diagnose heart attack, study shows

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 16, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Early diagnosis of a heart attack may now be possible using only a few drops of saliva and a new nano-bio-chip, a multi-institutional team led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin reported at a recent meeting ...


Is quantum Internet search on the way?

Physics / General Physics

created May 06, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (39) | comments 2

In classical computing, random access memory (RAM) is needed to make things “work.” But it is subject to a certain level of energy loss. But what if you could create low-energy quantum access memory (QRAM) that would not ...


U.S. tests CO2 underground storage options

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 12, 2006 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

The U.S. Department of Energy says it is continuing a project designed to determine the feasibility of storing carbon dioxide in brine formations.


NASA Mission Gets Closer to Solving Magnetic Reconnection Mystery

NASA Mission Gets Closer to Solving Magnetic Reconnection Mystery (w/ Videos)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is designing a mission to investigate one of the most fundamental and explosive physical processes in the universe - magnetic reconnection. Known as the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) ...


Texas Instruments Announces Next Generation PCI Express Physical Layer

Technology /

created Jul 18, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Expanding its broad portfolio of PCI Express products, Texas Instruments Inc. announces the third generation of its discrete PCI Express physical layer (PHY) chip. The new device, designed for flexibility and space savings, ...


Robot endures Antarctic cold to prepare for space mission

Electronics / Robotics

created Dec 26, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

A NASA robot tested last winter in an icy Wisconsin lake will complete a monthlong underwater mission in Antarctica on Thursday, having successfully explored dark, deep waters frozen off from the outside world tens of thousands ...


Scientists probe Antarctic glaciers for clues to past and future sea level

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 28, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (18) | comments 1

Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have teamed up to explore two of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora and Wilkes Subglacial Basins, immense ice-buried lowlands in Antarctica with a combined area the ...


NASA instruments document contraction of the boundary between the Earth's ionosphere, space

NASA instruments document contraction of the boundary between the Earth's ionosphere, space

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 15, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Observations made by NASA instruments onboard an Air Force satellite have shown that the boundary between the Earth's upper atmosphere and space has moved to extraordinarily low altitudes. ...


3-D video for cell phones unveiled

Technology / Engineering

created May 08, 2006 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

California's DDD Group said Monday it had developed a 3-D video solution for cell phones.


Portable kit may one day detect plant disease before disastrous outbreak

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

This science may literally be outside the box: A briefcase-sized kit is carried to a field where thousands of tons of food are growing. The search is for microorganisms that could infect and kill the plants, wreaking havoc ...


Phoenix Mars Lander Inspects Delivered Soil Samples

Phoenix Mars Lander Inspects Delivered Soil Samples

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 14, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (32) | comments 2

New observations from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander provide the most magnified view ever seen of Martian sol, showing particles clumping together even at the smallest visible scale.


TI Single-Chip Solution Drives GPS into Mainstream Mobile Phones

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 26, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Texas Instruments today announced a new single-chip device that is expected to drive GPS applications into mainstream mobile phones.


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AT&T to release cellphone with optional projector

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

If cellphones with built-in video projectors are going to take the country by storm, then Dallas will be at the eye of the hurricane.