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Sony Announces HX1 Cyber-Shot Camera with Sweep Panorama Technology

Sony Announces DSC-HX1 Cyber-Shot Camera with Sweep Panorama Technology

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Sony is spotlighting its first digital still camera to feature sweep panorama technology. The new HX1 Cyber-shot model can take 224-degree panorama shots in one easy press-and-sweep motion.





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New materials designed to deal with hypersonic and supersonic hot stuff (w/ Video)

New materials designed to deal with hypersonic and supersonic hot stuff (w/ Video)

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 6

University of Queensland researchers are testing new materials to withstand the extreme heat experienced by hypersonic vehicles in flight so they can fly for substantially longer.


Scientists map speed of climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (28) | comments 27

New study finds that the average ecosystem will need to shift about a quarter mile per year to keep pace with global climate change.


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Bees show off the perfect landing

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Honey bees undergo a sudden transition from speeding aircraft to hovering helicopter as they perform the delicate art of landing on a flower.


Part 1: From Linacs to Lasers: Accelerators and Light Sources of Tomorrow

Accelerators and Light Sources of Tomorrow (Part 1: From Linacs to Lasers)

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

From their humble beginnings as offshoots of the ordinary electric light bulb, particle accelerators have evolved in surprising directions. Among the most productive and promising developments have been light ...


Feds mull regulating drugs in water

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- Federal regulators under President Barack Obama have sharply shifted course on long-standing policy toward pharmaceutical residues in the nation's drinking water, taking a critical first step toward regulating some ...


Most of 47,000 Filipinos safe from raging volcano (AP)

Most of 47,000 Filipinos safe from raging volcano

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- Almost all of the 47,000 residents living on the slopes of a rumbling volcano in the central Philippines have moved to emergency shelters, and lava and earthquakes Tuesday heralded what officials ...


Swimming Bacteria Could Become Model for Micromachines

Swimming Bacteria Could Become Model for Micromachines

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UConn researchers say Spiroplasma's propulsion style is optimal for converting energy into motion.


Cornellians build computer climate-change model

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (7) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are contributing to a new model of climate change that may give more accurate predictions of the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in Earth's future.


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Researcher Uses Graphene Quilts to Keep Things Cool

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Riverside Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering Alexander Balandin is leading several projects to explore ways to use ...


Philippine volcano gets louder, could blow up soon (AP)

Philippine volcano gets louder, could erupt soon

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(AP) -- Philippine troops on Monday pressed the last 3,000 villagers who have refused to heed government warnings to leave the danger zone around a volcano that experts say is ready to erupt.



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