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Engineers perfecting hydrogen-generating technology
Aug 27, 2007 |
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Researchers at Purdue University have further developed a technology that could represent a pollution-free energy source for a range of potential applications, from golf carts to submarines and cars to emergency ...
Scientists fabricate first plasma transistor
Nov 12, 2008 |
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Since their development in the 1940s, transistors have been at the heart of computers and other modern electronic devices. Transistors - whose job is to start, stop, or amplify electric current - come in all ...
Advance brings low-cost, bright LED lighting closer to reality
Jul 17, 2008 |
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Researchers at Purdue University have overcome a major obstacle in reducing the cost of "solid state lighting," a technology that could cut electricity consumption by 10 percent if widely adopted.
Light speed communications for supercomputers
Dec 17, 2007 |
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The performance of tomorrow’s supercomputers will be dictated by their ability to exchange large volumes of data instantly between the hundreds of thousands of processors of which they are built.
The leading 'edge': plastic fibre slashes network costs
Jan 09, 2008 |
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Plans in the 1990s to bring ultra-high speed telecom lines into every home foundered because the optical fibre infrastructure was just too expensive. But a new European project using plastic fibre and off-the-shelf ...
Quantum physics 'rules' -- Australian scientists create world's most accurate 'ruler'
Nov 26, 2007 |
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NEVER try telling a quantum physicist that near enough is good enough – Australian researchers have invented a technique that, for the first time, measures lengths as accurately as the laws of physics allow. ...
Bright sparks make gains towards plastic lasers of the future
May 23, 2008 |
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Imperial researchers have come one step closer to finding the 'holy grail' in the field of plastic semiconductors by demonstrating a class of material that could make electrically-driven plastic laser diodes ...
Baby DVDs, videos may hinder, not help, infants' language development
Aug 07, 2007 |
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Despite marketing claims, parents who want to give their infants a boost in learning language probably should limit the amount of time they expose their children to DVDs and videos such as “Baby Einstein” and “Brainy Baby.” ...
Radio astronomers detect 'baby quasar' near the edge of the visible Universe
Jun 06, 2008 |
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An international group of radio astronomers has found an unexpected morphology in the most distant radio quasar ever. This was done using the world's most sensitive network of radio telescopes called the European ...
All your movies on a single DVD: study
May 20, 2009 |
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Scientists unveiled new DVD technology on Wednesday that stores data in five dimensions, making it possible to pack more than 2,000 movies onto a single disc.
Toward Plastic Spin Transistors
Aug 17, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah physicists successfully controlled an electrical current using the "spin" within electrons – a step toward building an organic "spin transistor": a plastic semiconductor ...
Pioneer Develops World's First 16-Layer Optical Disc
Jul 07, 2008 |
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Pioneer Corporation has succeeded in developing a 16-layer read-only optical disc with a capacity of 400 gigabytes for the first time in the world.
GE Shows Off 1TB DVD-Sized Disks at the Emerging Tech Conference
Sep 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At the September '09 Emerging Tech Conference in Boston, GE announced it has been developing a 1TB DVD size disk that can be read by a modified Blu-ray player.
A Billion Year Ultra-Dense Memory Chip (w/Video)
Jun 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Berkeley Lab researchers have created a unique ultra-high density memory storage medium that can preserve digital data for a billion years.
Pushing the limits of chip miniaturisation
Nov 06, 2007 |
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Over the last four decades, computer chips have found their way into virtually every electronic device in the world. During that time they have become smaller, cheaper and more powerful, but, for a team of ...
