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New nanogenerator may charge iPods and cell phones with a wave of the hand

New nanogenerator may charge iPods and cell phones with a wave of the hand

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 3

Imagine if all you had to do to charge your iPod or your BlackBerry was to wave your hand, or stretch your arm, or take a walk? You could say goodbye to batteries and never have to plug those devices into ...


Aeroacoustics Research Could Quiet Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Aeroacoustics Research Could Quiet Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are playing increasingly important roles in many fields. Ranging in size from the huge Global Hawk aircraft to hand-held machines, these remotely controlled ...


Scientists Extend the Lifetime of Quantum Memory

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- Storing and sending information using quantum phenomena is one of the hottest areas of research today; scientists across the globe are investigating how to make quantum communication possible for real-life ...





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Reducing greenhouse gases may not be enough to slow climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (8) | comments 6

Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning Professor Brian Stone publishes a paper in the December edition of Environmental Science and Technology that suggests policymakers need to address the influence of global deforestation ...


Grant awarded to improve the security of mobile devices and cellular networks

Grant awarded to improve the security of mobile devices and cellular networks

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Smart phones -- like BlackBerrys and iPhones -- have become indispensable to today's highly mobile workforce and tech-savvy youngsters. While these devices keep friends and colleagues just a few thumb-taps ...


Device enables world's first voluntary gorilla blood pressure reading

Device enables world's first voluntary gorilla blood pressure reading

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Zoo Atlanta recently became the first zoological institution in the world to obtain voluntary blood pressure readings from a gorilla. This groundbreaking stride was made possible by the Gorilla Tough Cuff, ...


 eStadium application brings multimedia sports features to smartphones

eStadium application brings multimedia sports features to smartphones

Technology / Software

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The intimate and spirited quarters of a stadium offer perhaps the most ideal venues to experience an athletic event. Or do they?


Community education and evacuation planning saved lives in Sept. 29 Samoan tsunami

Community education and evacuation planning saved lives in Sept. 29 Samoan tsunami

Other Sciences / Other

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

Community-based education and awareness programs minimized the death toll from the recent Samoan tsunami, though there are still ways to improve the warning and evacuation process, according to a team of researchers ...


Spinal cord regeneration enabled by stabilizing, improving delivery of scar-degrading enzyme

Spinal cord regeneration enabled by stabilizing, improving delivery of scar-degrading enzyme

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Researchers have developed an improved version of an enzyme that degrades the dense scar tissue that forms when the central nervous system is damaged. By digesting the tissue that blocks re-growth of damaged ...


3-D system based on optical fiber could provide new options for photovoltaics

3-D system based on optical fiber could provide new options for photovoltaics

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Converting sunlight to electricity might no longer mean large panels of photovoltaic cells atop flat surfaces like roofs.


University research worth $187 billion over 12 years, group says

Other Sciences / Economics

created Oct 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In what it calls a first-of-its-kind study, the nation's leading biotechnology trade group this week put a dollar figure on the value of university-driven research, asserting that economic output grew $187 billion from 1996-2007 ...


Researchers Create First Synthetic Cellulosome in Yeast

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers led by University of California, Riverside (UCR) Professor of Chemical Engineering Wilfred Chen has constructed for the first time a synthetic cellulosome in yeast, which is much more ...


New material could efficiently power tiny generators

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- To power a very small device like a pacemaker or a transistor, you need an even smaller generator. The components that operate the generator are smaller yet, and the efficiency of those foundational components ...



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