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Soraa LED light may dim 50-watt halogen rivals

(PhysOrg.com) -- Soraa, a Fremont, California company founded in 2008, this week launched its first product, a light that uses LEDS (light emitting diodes). The "Soraa LED MR16 lamp" is the "perfect" replacement ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 23 | with audio podcast report

NASA looking for more space taxis

NASA is looking for more ways to get astronauts to the International Space Station. The space agency put out a call today for commercial space companies to submit bids as part of the latest round of the Commercial ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 9

Outrage over Steve Jobs angel in Taiwan ad

A Taiwanese television commercial featuring a Steve Jobs look-alike angel complete with white wings and a halo has caused uproar, with critics saying it is disrespectful towards Apple's late founder.

Technology / Other

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Chips and apps on tap for Super Bowl

Millions of American football fans will be watching the Super Bowl on television Sunday with one hand in the potato chips and the other holding a smartphone.

Technology / Software

created Feb 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Report identifies 16 highest priorities to guide NASA's Technology Development efforts for next 5 years

During the next five years, NASA technology development efforts should focus on 16 high-priority technologies and their associated top technical challenges, says a new report from the National Research Council. In addition, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Gingrich vows to establish a colony on the moon (Update)

Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has stirred strong passions by claiming he will establish a permanent moon base by 2020 if elected, but experts say he is living on another planet.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 5

Strategic research plan needed to help avoid potential risks of nanomaterials

Despite extensive investment in nanotechnology and increasing commercialization over the last decade, insufficient understanding remains about the environmental, health, and safety aspects of nanomaterials. Without a coordinated ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Walking in place during commercials offers a good calorie burn

Fitness experts are always telling us that incorporating movement into our day is a good way to burn calories. But is it effective? A study finds that walking in place during commercials while watching TV actually provides ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rare, once-royal turtle to be tracked in Cambodia

(AP) -- One of the world's most endangered turtles has been released into a Cambodian river with a satellite transmitter attached to its shell to track how it will navigate through commercial fishing grounds ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The rail and road network in Spain does not follow economic criteria, but central

A researcher at the University of Barcelona has examined the construction of surface transportation infrastructure in Spain from 1720 to 2010. The economist and author of the study, Germà Bel explains ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Oslo voices concern over shrinking number of whalers

Norwegian authorities called Wednesday on the country's whaling industry to counter the dramatic drop over the past decade in the number of boats partaking in the annual whale hunts.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Japanese whalers hand over Australian activists

Three activists who boarded a Japanese whaling ship on the high seas were Friday successfully transferred to an Australian customs vessel after Tokyo agreed to release them without charge.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Crowd-sourcing the Future of Accelerators

(PhysOrg.com) -- Accelerator technology has made huge leaps forward, prompting important developments well beyond high energy physics in areas as diverse as energy and the environment, medicine, industry, national security ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Tradable harvest quotas may save whales: study

Every year, a group of anti-whaling nonprofit organizations that includes Greenpeace, Sea Shepherd, and the World Wildlife Fund spend, by conservative estimates, some $25 million on a variety of activities intended to end ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Photoacoustic device finds cancer cells before they become tumors

Early detection of melanoma, the most aggressive skin cancer, is critical because melanoma will spread rapidly throughout the body. Now, University of Missouri researchers are one step closer to melanoma cancer detection ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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