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Futuristic Intel Chip

Futuristic 48-Core Intel Chip Could Reshape How Computers are Built (w/ Video)

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (31) | comments 19

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or "single-chip cloud computer," that rethinks many of the approaches used in today's designs for laptops, ...


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 ...


Unlocking wood's energy

Technology / Energy

created Mar 01, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 5

Deftly using a pair of tweezers, Scott Geib pulls apart the insides of a yellowish, wormlike critter - the larva of a tree-devouring pest called the Asian long-horned beetle. Something in the insect's gut allows it to make ...


Smart Lighting: New LED Drops the 'Droop'

Smart Lighting: New LED Drops the 'Droop'

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed and demonstrated a new type of light emitting diode (LED) with significantly improved lighting performance and energy efficiency.


unzipping nanotubes

Unzipping Carbon Nanotubes Can Make Graphene Ribbons

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- By "unzipping" carbon nanotubes, researchers have shown how to make flat graphene ribbons. Graphene, which is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon that looks like chicken wire, has unique electrical ...


Internet of things plays with hand of ACEs

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a new software abstraction called Autonomic Communication Elements (ACEs) which will enable ecosystems for service networks, and make the future ‘internet of things’ a reality, ...


Natural gas as answer to oil decline could lead to catastrophe, says leading expert

Technology / Energy

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (9) | comments 7

Ploughing resources into the use of natural gas as an alternative energy supply could lead to global shortage within 20 years time, according to a leading energy expert.


Google Android G1 Phone

Google G1 Phone: Security Flaw Exposed

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 28, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of Security Researchers exposed a security flaw in Google´s G1 Android phone. The flaw is in the web browser on the T-Mobile G1 that can potentially allow Trojans and Keyloggers to ...


100 million years AD

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 26, 2008 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (62) | comments 58

(PhysOrg.com) -- Jan Zalasiewicz, a lecturer in geology at the University of Leicester, has published a new study looking at the lasting impression made by mankind -100 million years hence. He takes the perspective of alien ...


Low-emission, high-performance engine for future hybrids

Low-emission, high-performance engine for future hybrids

Technology / Energy

created Sep 15, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 2

In an advance toward introduction of an amazing new kind of internal combustion engine, researchers in China are reporting development and use of a new and more accurate computer model to assess performance ...


As good as it gets?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 11, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (21) | comments 4

Albert Einstein once quipped, "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." The famous scientist might have added that the illusion of reality shifts over time. According to a new Brandeis University study ...


New model explains why we overestimate our future choices

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 17, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1

When people make choices for future consumption, they select a wider variety than when they plan to immediately consume the products. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research examines the reasons behind this divers ...


Microsoft, Google in battle to win over students

Technology / Business

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As they plunged into a project on ancient Egypt this fall, Jay Martino's Cupertino (Calif.) Middle School students probably didn't realize they were on the front lines of a high stakes battle between Google and Microsoft.


How often will you use that treadmill?

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 17, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Why not buy that treadmill? You'll be exercising every day, right? A new study
in the Journal of Consumer Research examines why our expectations of our
behavior so often don't match reality.


Mars Sample Return: bridging robotic and human exploration

Mars Sample Return: bridging robotic and human exploration

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 21, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

The first robotic mission to return samples to Earth from Mars took a further step toward realisation with the recent publication of a mission design report by the iMARS Working Group. The report, defines ...