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Bats recognize the individual voices of other bats

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bats can use the characteristics of other bats' voices to recognize each other, according to a study by researchers from the University of Tuebingen, Germany and the University of Applied Sciences in Konstanz, Germany. The ...


Most efficient spectrograph to shoot the Southern skies

Most efficient spectrograph to shoot the Southern skies

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

ESO's Very Large Telescope, Europe's flagship facility for ground-based astronomy, has been equipped with the first of its second generation instruments: X-shooter. It can record the entire spectrum of a celestial ...





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Energy efficiency standards for appliances should include upstream costs

Technology / Energy

created May 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The U.S. Department of Energy should consider gradually changing its system of setting appliance energy-efficiency standards to a full-fuel-cycle measurement, which takes into account both the energy used to operate an appliance, ...


Building a better telecom system

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Hurricane Katrina helped University of Texas professor, Alexis Kwasinski, formulate a new plan for the U.S. telecom system: a de-centralized power architecture that would have kept the lights and phones on in New Orleans. ...


White glow: Dye-doped DNA nanofibers emit white light

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Efficient energy transport plays an important role in the development of optoelectonic materials. The true masters of energy transfer via a hierarchical arrangement of different molecules are the photosynthetic ...


Voiding the Cosmic Void: We're not at Center of the Universe After All

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 10, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (48) | comments 25

Models of the universe that place us near the center of a large, sparse region don't jibe with astronomical observations. Cosmologists at the University of British Columbia reached the conclusion through a new analysis that ...


CSIRO's UltraBattery goes global in the auto sector

Technology / Energy

created Oct 02, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 1

The CSIRO-invented UltraBattery is set to have a global impact on greenhouse gas emissions after Japan's Furukawa Battery Company, which has already begun production of the UltraBattery, and US manufacturer, East Penn, today ...


Scientists Track Heat in Tiny Rolls of Carbon Atoms

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM Research scientists today announced a landmark study in the field of nanoelectronics; the development and demonstration of novel techniques to measure the distribution of energy and heat in powered carbon ...


Renewable energies will benefit US workers

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Expansion of renewable energies should appreciably improve the health status of the 700,000 US workers employed in the energy sector, according to a commentary by Medical College of Wisconsin researchers, in Milwaukee. Their ...


Measuring Electron Orbitals

Measuring Electron Orbitals

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, it has been possible to measure electron density in individual molecular states using what is known as the photoelectric effect. Now published in Science, this method repres ...


EPA: Climate bill could cost family $100 annually

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 3

(AP) -- A Senate plan to tackle global warming would add about $100 a year to the energy costs for a typical household, according to an analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency.


Revolutionary sensor system protects ports, bridges and distribution centres

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Özlem Durmaz Incel, researcher at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, has developed a spectacular new method that enables wireless sensor networks to function up to ten times more efficiently. Networks ...



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