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Semantic web promises a smarter electricity grid

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dispersed wind farms and solar panels on people’s homes are posing new challenges for managing power grids that were designed when all electricity was generated in centralised plants. A new semantic web technology ...


Removing user constraints from digital rights management

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 11, 2008 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bridging the often-large gap between the commercial imperatives of digital content providers and the requirements of users who buy their content has been achieved by a team of European researchers.


Creating resilience for vehicular applications

Creating resilience for vehicular applications

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed promising approaches to a long-neglected aspect of car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communications: fault-tolerance and resilience. The technology is ...


Window display

Technology / Hi Tech

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Just one click and the window turns into a display. At the Hannover Messe from April 20 to 24, Fraunhofer research scientists will be demonstrating light-permeable conductive coatings as the basis for transparent displays. ...


New project on ferroelectric films: Cheaper, smaller and less energy consuming components for laptops, mobiles

Nanotechnology /

created Dec 16, 2005 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, has together with five European partners started a three year project, Nanostar, for mastering of nanostructured multifunctional ferroelectric films for low cost mass ...


Recognise this image?

Recognise this image?

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Image recognition is a long-standing challenge in science. But European researchers have achieved a breakthrough by developing a powerful image-recognition application with mass-market appeal. ...


Keeping the heat down

Keeping the heat down

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic products are having to accommodate more and more components, all of which generate heat. Too much heat could put laptops and other devices out of action, so manufacturers equip ...


Ariane 5 - First launch of 2009

Ariane 5 - First launch of 2009

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Yesterday evening, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport at Kourou, in French Guiana, on its mission to place two multi-role telecommunications satellites into geostationary ...


Beyond 3G, communications services of the future

Beyond 3G, communications services of the future

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 11, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Europe's telecommunications industry became the world leader in the 1990s. Now European researchers are working to maintain that lead by developing an innovative services platform for 'Beyond ...


Optoelectronic integration overcoming processor bottlenecks

Optoelectronic integration overcoming processor bottlenecks

Technology /

created Aug 02, 2005 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

One of the biggest obstacles facing computer systems today is the problem of memory latency, the time a computer must wait to access the data stored in memory despite faster processor speeds. Two demonstrators ...


Spintronic -- the new electronic?

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2

European researchers have developed novel concept devices using ferromagnetic semiconductors.


Researchers find memory can be manipulated by photos

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 20, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 1

The camera may not lie, but doctored photos do according to new research into digitally altered photos and how they influence our memories and attitudes toward public events.


Seeing stars, Proba-2 platform passes its first health check

Seeing stars, Proba-2 platform passes its first health check

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Into its second week in orbit, Proba-2's spacecraft platform has proven to be in excellent health. This leaves the way clear for commissioning the many new technology payloads aboard the mini-satellite, ...


IMEC advancing state-of-the-art in FinFETs

IMEC advancing state-of-the-art in FinFETs

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 13, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

At this week’s VLSI Symposium, IMEC presents significant progress in the manufacturability, circuit performance and reliability of FinFETs. The results advance FinFET process technology towards being a candidate ...


Automotive safety systems get more dependable

Automotive safety systems get more dependable

Technology / Engineering

created May 16, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

As automotive safety systems become more complex, the risk of failure increases. But European researchers believe they have found a way to improve dependability.