 New spintronics effect could lead to magnetic batteries 23 hours ago | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have recently discovered that heating one side of a magnetized nickel-iron rod causes electrons to rearrange themselves according to their spins. This so-called "spin Seebeck effect" ... | |
 ZPower claims its silver-zinc batteries last 40% longer than lithium-ion October 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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A company called ZPower has designed batteries with silver- and zinc-based electrodes that it says will offer up to 40% more computer time per charge than today´s lithium-ion batteries. Consumers won´t have ... | |
 Scientists: Virginia shark's pup a 'virgin birth' October 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Scientists have confirmed the second case of a "virgin birth" in a shark. In a study reported Friday in the Journal of Fish Biology, scientists said DNA testing proved that a pup carried by a female ... | |
Seeing race and seeming racist? Whites go out of their way to avoid talking about race October 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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White people – including children as young as 10 -- may avoid talking about race so as not to appear prejudiced, according to new research. But that approach often backfires as blacks tend to view this "colorblind" approach ... | |
Using a fan during sleep lowers SIDS risk by 72 percent October 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Infants who slept in a bedroom with a fan ventilating the air had a 72 percent lower risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome compared to infants who slept in a bedroom without a fan, according to a new study by the Kaiser Permanente ... | |
 Japanese duo, US scientist win Nobel for particle physics October 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan and Yoichiro Nambu of the United States won the 2008 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for groundbreaking theoretical work in fundamental particles. | |
Hack-a-vote: Students learn how vulnerable electronic voting really is October 07, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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This week undergraduate and graduate students in an advanced computer security course at Rice University in Houston are learning hands-on just how easy it is to wreak havoc on computer software used in today's voting machines. | |
Electricity supply: Sustainable sources remain expensive October 07, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Ambitious governments' environmental objectives for the electricity sector are only possible at a high price. This is one of the conclusions of researcher ir. Hans Rödel, who is to receive his PhD at TU Delft on Thursday ... | |
 Born from the wind -- unique multi-wavelength portrait of star birth October 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Telescopes on the ground and in space have teamed up to compose a colourful image that offers a fresh look at the history of the star-studded region NGC 346. This new, ethereal portrait, in which different ... | |
 Cosmic eye sheds light on early galaxy formation October 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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A Cosmic Eye has given scientists a unique insight into galaxy formation in the very early Universe. Using gravity from a foreground galaxy as a zoom lens the team was able to see a young star-forming galaxy ... | |
 Sea levels could rise one metre by 2100: German institute October 09, 2008 | User rating: 2.8 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Sea levels could rise one metre (3.3 feet) by 2100, a leading German research institute said Thursday, much more than even the most pessimistic projection by the UN climate panel. | |
Doctors: No hamsters or exotic pets for young kids October 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Warning: young children should not keep hedgehogs as pets - or hamsters, baby chicks, lizards and turtles, for that matter - because of risks for disease. | |
 3 share Nobel prize for work on AIDS and cancer October 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Three European scientists shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for separate discoveries of viruses that cause AIDS and cervical cancer, breakthroughs that helped doctors fight the deadly ... | |
CERN openlab boosts the performance of LHC computing October 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 3
The LHC Grid Fest, held last Friday at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and at several sites around the world, commemorated the readiness of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). At full capacity, the Large Hadron Collider ... | |
NASA study finds rising Arctic storm activity sways sea ice, climate October 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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A new NASA study shows that the rising frequency and intensity of arctic storms over the last half century, attributed to progressively warmer waters, directly provoked acceleration of the rate of arctic sea ice drift, long ... | |
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