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New power source discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and RMIT University have made a breakthrough in energy storage and power generation.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (39) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

With the tweak of a gene, we could transform our looks in a few generations

The proportion of people with desirable physical traits could rapidly accelerate over a few generations with the aid of a diet that tweaks particular genes, a study suggests.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

UCI biologists turn up the heat on bacteria, discover mutation pattern

UCI biologists who spent a year growing 115 populations into 2,000 generations of E. coli at high heat discovered that the bacteria quickly adapted at the genetic level in two markedly different ways. The findings appear ...

Biology / Evolution

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

UT biosolar breakthrough promises cheap, easy green electricity

Barry D. Bruce, professor of biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is turning the term "power plant" on its head. The biochemist and a team of researchers have developed ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Report identifies 16 highest priorities to guide NASA's Technology Development efforts for next 5 years

During the next five years, NASA technology development efforts should focus on 16 high-priority technologies and their associated top technical challenges, says a new report from the National Research Council. In addition, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Rap music powers rhythmic action of medical sensor

(PhysOrg.com) -- The driving bass rhythm of rap music can be harnessed to power a new type of miniature medical sensor designed to be implanted in the body.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Iowa State engineer wants to 'sculpt' more powerful electric motors and generators

Dionysios Aliprantis took up an imaginary hammer and chisel and pounded away at the air.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Sony develops next-generation back-illuminated CMOS image sensor

Sony today announced that it has developed a new next-generation back-illuminated CMOS image sensor which embodies the continuous evolution of the camera. This image sensor layers the pixel section containing ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Generation X: How young adults deal with influenza

Only about one in five young adults in their late 30s received a flu shot during the 2009-2010 swine flu epidemic, according to a University of Michigan report that details the behavior and attitudes of Generation X.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gen Y's embrace of hybrids may be auto market's tipping point

(PhysOrg.com) -- Generation Y's strong affinity for hybrid vehicles could make it the generation that leads the automotive market away from traditional gasoline-powered vehicles, according to an annual survey by Deloitte ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Sitting it out

Youngsters in Norway today are not as fit as earlier generations, and even the best perform less well. Researchers now warn that a wave of inactivity could have a major long-term health impact.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NSTX project will produce world's most powerful spherical torus

DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is getting an earlier-than-expected start on a $94 million, nearly three-year project as the next stage of its mission to chart an attractive course for the ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Power generation is blowing in the wind

(PhysOrg.com) -- By looking at the stability of the atmosphere, wind farm operators could gain greater insight into the amount of power generated at any given time.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Retention study identifies key factors affecting three generations of nurses

If organisations want to retain qualified nurses they need to tackle the different work factors that are important to the three key age groups and build on the strong attachment that many nurses feel to the profession. Those ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

US expected to extend Grand Canyon mining ban

The US administration scheduled an announcement Monday widely expected to implement a long-term ban on mining around the Grand Canyon, a move praised by environmental activists.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Generation

Generation (from the Latin generāre, meaning "to beget"), also known as procreation in biological sciences, is the act of producing offspring. In a more general sense, it can also refer to the act of creating something inanimate such as ideas, sound, electrical generation using technology or cryptographic code generation.

A generation can refer to stages of successive improvement in the development of a technology such as the internal combustion engine, or successive iterations of products with planned obsolescence, such as video game consoles or mobile phones.

In biology, the process by which populations of organisms pass on advantageous traits from generation to generation is known as evolution.

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