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'Look Mom No Electricity': Transmitting Information with Chemistry

'Look Mom No Electricity': Transmitting Information with Chemistry

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (13) | comments 19

(PhysOrg.com) -- While information technology is generally thought to require electrons or photons for transmitting information, scientists have recently demonstrated a third method of transmission: chemical ...


Young stellar objects: The source of gas emission around Herbig Ae/Be stars

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

This week, Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing new observations with AMBER/VLTI of the gas component in the vicinity of young stars. An international team of astronomers led by E. Tatulli (Grenoble, France) and S. Kra ...





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The Japanese electric zero-emission hybrid scooter "Miletto"

Zero-emission scooter to debut in Japan

Technology / Energy

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 3

A Japanese zero-emission "hybrid" scooter to be released next year runs 10 times as economically as a petrol engine bike and can be assisted by human pedal power, its maker said Thursday.


XMM-Newton takes astronomers to a black hole's edge

XMM-Newton takes astronomers to a black hole's edge

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using new data from ESA's XMM-Newton spaceborne observatory, astronomers have probed closer than ever to a supermassive black hole lying deep at the core of a distant active galaxy.


Black hole sheds light on a galaxy

Black hole sheds light on a galaxy

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 18, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 1

A light echo occurs when interstellar gas is heated by radiation and reacts by emission of light. An international team led by Stefanie Komossa from the Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics in ...


Program automatically shuts down office PCs when not in use

Technology / Software

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NEC Corp. says it has developed the country's first software that automatically controls power consumption by personal computers in accordance with the patterns of its user's PC activity.


Disc Aroung Young Star

Astronomers get best view yet of infant stars at feeding time

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Astronomers have used ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer to conduct the first high resolution survey that combines spectroscopy and interferometry on intermediate-mass infant stars. They obtained a ...


Most Distant Water in the Universe Found

Most Distant Water in the Universe Found

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 17, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have found the most distant water yet seen in the Universe, in a galaxy more than 11 billion light-years from Earth. Previously, the most distant water had been seen in a galaxy ...


Red sky at night -- astronomers delight

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 10, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

A collaboration of over 50 astronomers, The IPHAS consortium, led from the UK, with partners in Europe, USA, Australia, has released today the first comprehensive optical digital survey of our own Milky Way. Conducted by ...


No matter their size black holes 'feed' in the same way

No matter their size black holes 'feed' in the same way

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 06, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Research by UK astronomers, published today in Nature reveals that the processes at work in black holes of all sizes are the same and that supermassive black holes are simply scaled up versions of small Galact ...


Samsung Goes Brave New World With 40-Inch OLED Panel

Samsung Goes Brave New World With 40-Inch OLED Panel

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 30, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (40) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Samsung showed off its 40-inch OLED panel at FPD International in Yokahama, Japan. It is a work in progress with a full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080, a contrast ratio of a million to one and ...


Robots Reveal Insights into Evolution

Robots Reveal Insights into Evolution

Electronics / Robotics

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 22

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an ironic twist to our understanding of life, robots may offer a greater degree of realism for studying some of the intricacies of natural selection and evolution than real organisms offer. ...



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