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Telescoping nanotubes offer new option for nonvolatile memory

Telescoping nanotubes offer new option for nonvolatile memory

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 06, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (44) | comments 0

In the midst of a widespread and potentially highly lucrative search for next-generation nonvolatile memory, scientists from the University of California have put to use an interesting characteristic of carbon ...


A bright idea: Philips lets flat lights out of lab (AP)

A bright idea: Philips lets flat lights out of lab

Technology / Hi Tech

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 5

(AP) -- Someday, our ceilings and walls might radiate light, illuminating indoor spaces as brightly and evenly as natural daylight.


Laser Light

3D laser structuring

Technology / Engineering

created May 29, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (25) | comments 0

Small structure, big impact. Micrometer-fine patterns in surfaces endow components with amazing properties: Plastic dashboards, for example, can be made to look like leather; sharkskin ribs on an aircraft’s fuselage ...


Logo for Microsoft, at their Herndon, Virginia, office

Microsoft's Office 2007 vision

Technology / Software

created Jun 26, 2006 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Microsoft Office applications are getting a multimedia tech facelift, which will incorporate voice, instant messaging and multi-faceted conferencing in its new 2007 Office system products.


Two DVDs per second: a tiny chip processes data at extremely high speed

Two DVDs per second: a tiny chip processes data at extremely high speed

Electronics / Hardware

created May 12, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (47) | comments 0

Siemens researchers working in collaboration with specialists from Infineon have developed a receiver that converts Internet data from fiber-optic cables into electrical signals at breathtaking speed. At present, ...


Networking: Convergence comes to China

Technology /

created Jan 02, 2006 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A number of converged network communications projects are expected to move forward in China this year -- with wired and wireless elements -- spanning from Shanghai to Beijing, experts tell United Press International's Networking. ...


China may back local 3G tech first

Technology /

created Dec 28, 2005 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Even as China, by far the world's biggest telecom market that is anxiously awaiting the go-ahead from its government for third-generation telecom services, is trying out all the available 3G technology standards, industry ...


Night Vision System for Cars

Night Vision System for Cars

Electronics /

created Sep 16, 2005 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (31) | comments 0

At the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt, Siemens has introduced a night vision system that works with infrared technology. With this innovation, Siemens has also become the first automotive industry ...


Heart disease found in Egyptian mummies

Heart disease found in Egyptian mummies

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hardening of the arteries has been detected in Egyptian mummies, some as old as 3,500 years, suggesting that the factors causing heart attack and stroke are not only modern ones; they afflicted ancient people, ...


Sahara

Will Europe Be Powered by the Sahara

Technology / Energy

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (23) | comments 27

(PhysOrg.com) -- Europe has long been interested in developing alternative energy sources. And, one of the more interesting places that some Europeans are looking for solar power is the Sahara. With the vast ...


Lab-on-a-Chip Performs 1,000 Chemical Reactions At Once

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Flasks, beakers, and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in medicinal chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a benchtop, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer and instantly run thousands ...


The turbine which measures 65 metres tall and weighs 5,300 tonnes lies some 10 kilometres off the island of Karmoey

World's first floating wind turbine opens in Norway

Technology / Energy

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 8

The world's first floating full-scale offshore wind turbine has been inaugurated in the North Sea off the coast of Norway, Norwegian energy giant StatoilHydro said Tuesday.


NYU physicists make room for oddballs

NYU physicists make room for oddballs

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Here's a question. How many gumballs of different sizes can fit in one of those containers at the mall so as to reward a well-spent quarter? It's hard to believe that most people never consider ...


Colasoft Capsa Provides Comprehensive Network Analysis at Your Fingertips

Colasoft Capsa Provides Comprehensive Network Analysis at Your Fingertips

Technology / Software

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (13) | comments 3

As computers become more ingrained in the daily operations of most companies, it seems that running into problems occurs more frequently and with greater consequences. When it comes to computer networks, the ...


A man pictured next to solar panels in a village in Niger in 2004

400-bln-euro plan to pump African solar power to Europe

Technology / Energy

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (19) | comments 5

Twelve European companies launched a 400-billion-euro (560-billion-dollar) initiative on Monday to plant huge solar farms in Africa and the Middle East to produce energy for Europe.