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ESA designs its smallest ever space engine to push back against sunshine

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- This month an ESA team is preparing to test the performance of the smallest yet most precisely controllable engine ever built for space, sensitive enough to counteract the force of incoming ...


Dawn Glides Into New Year

Dawn Glides Into New Year

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 21, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft shut down its ion propulsion system today as scheduled. The spacecraft is now gliding toward a Mars flyby in February of next year.





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Beaming in on Warm Dense Matter (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created 18 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment II (NDCX-II) now under construction at Berkeley Lab will deliver a high-current pulse of lithium ions to a foil target almost simultaneously, momentarily heating ...


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Gadgets: Great gadgets, as a gift or not

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created 20 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Officially this is not another gift guide. Instead I'd rather consider it the first of two roundups either of products I just haven't gotten to this year or some I have just couldn't find a home for.


Light used to map effect of neurons on one another

Light used to map effect of neurons on one another

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created 23 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Harvard University have used light and genetic trickery to trace out neurons' ability to excite or inhibit one another, literally shedding new light on the question of how neurons ...


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Bing and Google gaining at Yahoo!'s expense: comScore

Technology / Internet

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

Bing and Google gained ground in the Internet search market in November as they evidently lure people away from Yahoo!, according to fresh figures from industry-tracker comScore.


Water droplets shape graphene nanostructures

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A single-atom-thick sheet of carbon, like those seen in pencil marks -- offers great potential for new types of nanoscale devices, if a good way can be found to mold the material into desired shapes.


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Electric cars rolling out

Technology / Energy

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electric vehicles are far from new, but we are still a long way from electric cars being the norm. Now two new electric cars may bring that goal a step closer.


Biodiesel refinery hopes to finally begin soon

Technology / Energy

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Starting up a new business is tough, but starting up in a new industry can be even tougher. That helps explain why the city's cutting-edge biodiesel refinery, one of a handful of its kind in the country, hasn't begun production ...


Seattle Charges Up for Electric Cars

Seattle Charges Up for Electric Cars

Technology / Energy

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- Over the next two years, 2,500 charging stations for electric vehicles will be built in the Seattle area as part of a partnership between Nissan North America and the Electric Transportation Engineering ...


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Twitter gets more business friendly

Technology / Internet

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Twitter is testing a way to let businesses better use the popular microblogging service in what could be a future money-making opportunity.


Micromachined piezoelectric harvester drives fully autonomous wireless sensor

Micromachined piezoelectric harvester drives fully autonomous wireless sensor

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1

For the first time, a piezoelectric harvesting device fabricated by MEMS technology generates a record of 85μW electrical power from vibrations. A wafer level packaging method was developed for robustness. ...



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