News tagged with cooling
Compressor-free refrigerator may loom in the future
Aug 07, 2008 |
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Refrigerators and other cooling devices may one day lose their compressors and coils of piping and become solid state, according to Penn State researchers who are investigating electrically induced heat effects of some ferroelectric ...
AMD Phenom II Quad Core Overclocked to 6.3Ghz
Nov 24, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- AMD has been showing off their soon to be released 45nm "Deneb" desktop chips which have been overclocked to 6.3Ghz. Unless you can get your hands on some liquid nitrogen, don´t expect to ...
'Rosetta Stone' of supervolcanoes discovered in Italian Alps
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Scientists have found the "Rosetta Stone" of supervolcanoes, those giant pockmarks in the Earth's surface produced by rare and massive explosive eruptions that rank among nature's most violent events. The eruptions produce ...
Buffer gas cooling could open up the field of ultracold physics
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "Scientists have been making Bose-Einstein Condensates [BECs] for nearly 15 years," Charlie Doret tells PhysOrg.com. "Essentially all BEC research to date, however, begins with laser cooling. Unfortunately, ...
Quantum goes massive
Jul 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An astrophysics experiment in America has demonstrated how fundamental research in one subject area can have a profound effect on work in another as the instruments used for the Laser Interferometer ...
Down Under dinosaur burrow discovery provides climate change clues (w/ Video)
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 10, 2009 |
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On the heels of his discovery in Montana of the first trace fossil of a dinosaur burrow, Emory University paleontologist Anthony Martin has found evidence of more dinosaur burrows - this time on the other ...
Steampipe keeps electronics cool
Dec 04, 2008 |
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(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 ...
Ghost alps of Antarctica are glimpsed after 14 million years
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 03, 2009 |
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Millions of years ago, rivers ran in Antarctica through craggy mountain valleys that were strangely similar to the European Alps of today, Chinese and British scientists reported on Wednesday.
For Refrigeration Problems, a Magnetically Attractive Solution
Jan 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Your refrigerator’s humming, electricity-guzzling cooling system could soon be a lot smaller, quieter and more economical thanks to an exotic metal alloy discovered by an international collaboration ...
Decline of carbon-dioxide-gobbling plankton coincided with ancient global cooling
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The evolutionary history of diatoms -- abundant oceanic plankton that remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the air each year -- needs to be rewritten, according to a new Cornell ...
Hotspots in developing countries will fuel demand for global energy
Jan 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Developing countries use proportionally less energy than industrialized nations, but this could soon change.
Using lasers to cool and manipulate molecules
Dec 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "For years, we have been using laser cooling to trap and manipulate atoms," David DeMille tells PhysOrg.com. "This has been very useful for both basic science and many applications. Recent ...
Geoengineering could complement mitigation to cool the climate
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 28, 2009 |
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The first comprehensive assessment of the climate cooling potential of different geoengineering schemes has been carried out by researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA).
New research expected to improve laser devices and make photovoltaics more efficient
Nov 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Chicago scientists have induced electrons in the nanocrystals of semiconductors to cool more slowly by forcing them into a smaller volume. This has the potential to improve satellite communications ...
Optical atomic clock becomes portable
Sep 03, 2009 |
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You imagine a clock to be different -- yet the optical table with its many complicated set-ups really is one. Optical clocks like the strontium clock in the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Braunschweig ...
