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Graphene Yields Secrets to Its Extraordinary Properties

Graphene Yields Secrets to Its Extraordinary Properties

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Applying innovative measurement techniques, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have directly measured the unusual energy ...


Vise Squad: Putting the Squeeze on a Crystal Leads to Novel Electronics

Vise Squad: Putting the Squeeze on a Crystal Leads to Novel Electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A clever materials science technique that uses a silicon crystal as a sort of nanoscale vise to squeeze another crystal into a more useful shape may launch a new class of electronic devices ...





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Multiferroic compounds used to produce smaller and cheaper digital memories

Multiferroic compounds used to produce smaller and cheaper digital memories

Physics / Condensed Matter

created 18 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Is it possible to make even more compact digital memories for portable electronic devices and which consume even less energy? A team of French researchers has recently demonstrated that it ...


Gift Guide: Accessories to jazz up mobile phones (AP)

Gift Guide: Accessories to jazz up mobile phones

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created 22 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

People you know have spent small fortunes on shiny new smart phones such as the iPhone 3GS, a BlackBerry or the Droid. But the devices still don't have all the features they want.


New climate targets may not change daily life much (AP)

New climate targets may not change daily life much

Space & Earth / Environment

created 22 hours ago | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 9

(AP) -- Americans' day-to-day lives won't change noticeably if President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next decade, experts say.


Spin polarization achieved in room temperature silicon

Spin polarization achieved in room temperature silicon

Physics / General Physics

created 23 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group in The Netherlands has achieved a first: injection of spin-polarized electrons in silicon at room temperature. This has previously been observed only at extremely low temperatures, ...


Obama to plead US case at global warming summit (AP)

Obama to plead US case at global warming summit

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(AP) -- President Barack Obama will commit the United States to substantial cuts in greenhouse gas pollution over the next decade - despite resistance in Congress over higher costs - when he travels to a ...


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Tips to keep iPhone battery going strong

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In talking with my iPhone-using friends, we often seem to bring up how to squeeze the most life from the iPhone's "nonreplaceable" battery.


Sony optimistic on 3-D TVs, in-house display (AP)

Sony optimistic on 3-D TVs, in-house display

Technology / Hi Tech

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A third to a half of the Sony Corp. TV sets sold annually will be packed with 3-D features by the year ending March 2013, a senior executive said Thursday.


This curvaceous humanoid made of layers of cardboard is billed as the first eco-friendly robot

Robo-chefs and fashion-bots on show in Tokyo

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Forget the Transformers and Astroboy: Japan's latest robots don't save the world -- they cook snacks, play with your kids, model clothes, and search for disaster victims.


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Comcast bid for NBC Universal could be sealed next week: source

Technology / Business

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Comcast's bid to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal from General Electric could be sealed next week if GE reaches an agreement with Vivendi, a source close to the matter said Wednesday.


Scientists find emotion-like behaviors, regulated by dopamine, in fruit flies

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have uncovered evidence of a primitive emotion-like behavior in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Their findings, which may be relevant to the relationship betwee ...



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