News tagged with components


Swine flu joins list of animal diseases that affect people

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The swine flu virus that is smoldering in this country and triggering a full-blown outbreak in Mexico is one of a growing number of animal pathogens to jump the species barrier -- and may be the microbe that jumpstarts the ...


High-tech speed bump detects damage to army vehicles

High-tech speed bump detects damage to army vehicles

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers have developed a technology that detects damage to critical suspension components in military vehicles simply by driving over a speed bumplike "diagnostic cleat" containing sensors.


Nano changes rise to macro importance in a key electronics material

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

By combining the results of a number of powerful techniques for studying material structure at the nanoscale, a team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, working with colleagues in other ...


Combination of old and new media deepens mathematical understanding

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

By combining the trusty old book, pen and paper with the possibilities offered by the computer and the interactive whiteboard, ICT can help to improve students’ understanding in maths education. So conclude a team of researchers ...


Breakthrough for post-4G communications

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With much of the mobile world yet to migrate to 3G mobile communications, let alone 4G, European researchers are already working on a new technology able to deliver data wirelessly up to 12.5Gb/s.


Chemopreventive agents in black raspberries identified

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, identifies components of black raspberries with chemopreventive potential.


Steampipe keeps electronics cool

Steampipe keeps electronics cool

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- The cooling of electronic components is playing an increasing role in the design process of electronic equipment such as mobile telephones, games computers and laptops. Wessel Wits, PhD student ...


Incorporating education in exercise programs increases benefits for arthritis patients

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 08, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Arthritis is the nation's most common cause of disability. The number of adults with doctor-diagnosed arthritis is projected to increase to 67 million by 2030, and a large proportion of U.S. adults will limit their activity ...


Future nanoelectronics may face obstacles

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 09, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (27) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Combining ordinary electronics with light has been a potential way to create minimal computer circuits with super fast information transfer. Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden and the University of ...



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