Search results for short circuit
Phoenix to Bake Ice-Rich Sample Next Week
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 03, 2008 |
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The next sample delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA) will be ice-rich.
Peckish bird briefly downs big atom smasher
Nov 09, 2009 |
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A peckish bird briefly knocked out part of the world's biggest atom smasher by causing a chain reaction with a piece of bread, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Monday.
'Short-circuit' discovered in ocean circulation
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 10, 2007 |
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Scientists have discovered how ocean circulation is working in the current that flows around Antarctica by tracing the path of helium from underwater volcanoes. The details are published in Nature this week. ...
The Medical Minute: Putting the freeze on abnormal heart beats
Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In some people, the heart has a tendency to race due to abnormal electrical signals that tell the heart muscle when to contract. Abnormal electrical activation of the heart with changes in the rate or regular ...
Panasonic Starts Mass-Production of High-Capacity 3.1 Ah Lithium-ion Battery
Dec 18, 2009 |
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Panasonic Corporation developed a 18650-type high-capacity 3.1 Ah lithium-ion battery and began mass production of the battery this December. The new 3.1 Ah battery has a nickel positive electrode and an energy density of ...
IMEC obtains record conversion efficiency of 24.7% for GaAs solar cells on Ge substrate
Feb 25, 2008 |
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IMEC has realized a single-junction GaAs solar cell on a Ge substrate with a record conversion efficiency of 24.7%. The efficiency was measured and confirmed by NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, ...
Aiming to avoid damage to neurocognitive areas of the brain during cranial radiation
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Radiation oncologists at Rush University Medical Center are intent on finding ways to avoid damage to the critically important hippocampus and limbic circuit of the brain when cranial radiation is required to treat existing ...
Strength through diversity
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny light-emitting diodes with optical microsystems that can produce all the colors of the rainbow, a new method for producing printed circuit boards - Fraunhofer researchers are showing ...
Algorithm could help chipmakers work with tangles of nanotubes
Jun 05, 2007 |
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Concerned that current methods for making computer chips might become stymied as components keep shrinking, many engineers are looking for circuit building blocks with improved electrical properties.
Brown fat cells make 'spare tires' shrink
Dec 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Bonn have found a new signalling pathway which stimulates the production and function of so-called brown fat cells. They propose using these cells that serve as a "natural ...
Sleep helps build long-term memories
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Experts have long suspected that part of the process of turning fleeting short-term memories into lasting long-term memories occurs during sleep. Now, researchers at the RIKEN-MIT Center for ...
Scientists Use DNA Scaffolding To Build Tiny Circuit Boards
Aug 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Today, scientists at IBM Research and the California Institute of Technology announced a scientific advancement that could be a major breakthrough in enabling the semiconductor industry to ...
Physicists Detect Single-Electron Tunneling with Quantum Dots
May 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Detecting the coherent motion of a single electron is a challenge, for the simple reason of scale: the timescale of the coherent motion of a single-electron wave function is in the picosecond ...
Locating a 'Free Choice' Brain Circuit
Apr 17, 2008 |
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Your brain gets a better workout when you change your routine, say scientists at the California Institute of Technology who have pinpointed one particular circuit that activates your ability to execute a decision. This finding ...
Why they grow? Getting to the roots of lethal metal whiskers
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A short circuit can be quite hairy: satellites have failed, a NASA computer centre was repeatedly paralysed and the US public heath authority recalled thousands of pacemakers - all because ...
