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Vehicle shock absorber recovers energy from bumps in the road

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the past decade, regenerative braking systems have become increasingly popular, recovering energy that would otherwise be lost through braking. However, another energy recovery mechanism ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 17, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (30) | comments 13 | with audio podcast feature

ONR demonstrates new counter-mine technology for ships

In a time of increasing irregular warfare threats, the Navy has devised and successfully demonstrated a revolutionary technology to help reduce the risk of naval mine strikes to U.S. Navy ships.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2




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Dutch team has solution for troubled ITER nuclear fusion reactor

(PhysOrg.com) -- The superconducting cables designed for the ITER fusion reactor (cost: 16 billion euros = $21.2 billion) are unable to withstand the planned forty to sixty thousand charge cycles. Barring a solution, the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Study shows how DNA finds its match

It's been more than 50 years since James Watson and Francis Crick showed that DNA is a double helix of two strands that complement each other. But how does a short piece of DNA find its match, out of the millions ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Magnetic therapy becoming more popular for treating depression

(Medical Xpress) -- A new magnetic therapy that treats major depression recently received a major boost when the government announced Medicare will cover the procedure in Illinois.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Playing RFID tag with sheets of paper

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags are an essential component of modern shopping, logistics, warehouse, and stock control for toll roads, casino chips and much more. They provide a simple way to track the item to ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Wireless power could revolutionize highway transportation, researchers say

A Stanford University research team has designed a high-efficiency charging system that uses magnetic fields to wirelessly transmit large electric currents between metal coils placed several feet apart. The ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (27) | comments 66 | with audio podcast

Iowa State engineer wants to 'sculpt' more powerful electric motors and generators

Dionysios Aliprantis took up an imaginary hammer and chisel and pounded away at the air.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Rap music powers rhythmic action of medical sensor

(PhysOrg.com) -- The driving bass rhythm of rap music can be harnessed to power a new type of miniature medical sensor designed to be implanted in the body.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Gadgets: 2012 Consumer Electronics Show picks

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas can be considered a toy store for the electronics world, with mile after mile of showrooms of the latest and greatest.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Secrets of the 'Levitating' Slinky: Viral web videos trigger physicists to explore a striking phenomenon

While holiday shoppers search frantically for the Moshi Monsters, LeapPad Explorers, or Lalaloopsy Silly Hair dolls atop their children's wish lists, many physicists remain engrossed in the properties of a ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 44 | with audio podcast

Let's do the twist: Spiral proteins are efficient gene delivery agents

Clinical gene therapy may be one step closer, thanks to a new twist on an old class of molecules.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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