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Galileo to image objects in geosynchronous orbit faster

Military satellites are critical sources of communications and data for today's operations environments. Through DARPA's Phoenix program, usable antennas or solar arrays from retired satellites in geosynchronous orbit (GEO ...

Technology / Telecom

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gadget Watch: HP Envy 14 PC has smart-tag sensor

(AP) -- Thin, light laptops -known as "ultrabooks"- are a much-hyped category at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show, an annual showcase for the latest smartphones, tablet computers and other ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

S.Africa ideal for world's largest telescope: minister

South Africa is well-placed to host the world's largest telescope because the costs would be lower, according to the deputy science minister.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research may yield more compact antennas for military use

(PhysOrg.com) -- While tall, bulky antennas seem like relics in an era of sleek, modern smartphones, they're still an unfortunate necessity for American soldiers.

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Making a light-harvesting antenna from scratch

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes when people talk about solar energy, they tacitly assume that we're stuck with some version of the silicon solar cell and its technical and cost limitations. Not so.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Holiday customers will be tracked by their phones

(PhysOrg.com) -- Black Friday shoppers in California and Virginia might learn their phones are being tracked as they move along the mall. That's the plan at the Promenade Temecula in southern California and ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 15 | with audio podcast report

Terahertz boost detection

Swissto12 -- an EPFL spin-off -- could help boost the performance of detection systems and create new antennas for mobile telephony and on-board satellite systems thanks to an innovative transmission system ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers adapt classic antennas to harness more power from the sun

Some solar devices, like calculators, only need a small panel of solar cells to function. But supplying enough power to meet all our daily needs would require enormous solar panels. And solar-powered energy collected by panels ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Image: Orion seen from the Rover

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Apollo 16 Lunar Module "Orion" is photographed from a distance by astronaut Chares M. Duke Jr., Lunar Module pilot, aboard the moving Lunar Roving Vehicle.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

NASA releases radar movie of asteroid 2005 YU55

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists working with the 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a short movie clip of asteroid 2005 YU55. The images were generated from ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Big asteroid to make close, harmless zip by Earth

An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier is set to make a close but harmless swing by Earth on Tuesday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Biologists identify light-regulated mechanism in cyanobacteria as aid to optimizing photosynthesis

(PhysOrg.com) -- Indiana University biologists have uncovered how a control system works in producing the important light-harvesting antennae that power photosynthesis in cyanobacteria, the microorganisms ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Putting light-harvesters on the spot

How the light-harvesting complexes required for photosynthesis get to their site of action in the plant cell is reported by RUB biologists in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The team led by Prof. Dr. Danja Schunemann has de ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New glass stamp may make cheaper, more precise biosensors

Advances in microchip technology may someday enable clinicians to perform tests for hundreds of diseases -- sifting out specific molecules, such as early stage cancer cells -- from just one drop of blood. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Antennas by General Dynamics enable 'early science' for ALMA

Thirteen 12-meter antennas manufactured by General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies have been successfully installed at the 16,500-foot-high Chajnantor plateau in Chile, home to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) astronomical observatory. Loc ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3