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Kites flying in high-altitude winds could provide clean electricity

Kites flying in high-altitude winds could provide clean electricity

Technology / Energy

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (44) | comments 29

(PhysOrg.com) -- At any moment, the winds in high-altitude jet streams hold roughly 100 times more energy than all the electricity being consumed on Earth, according to a study by Stanford environmental and ...


Mystery of the Missing Sunspots, Solved?

Mystery of the Missing Sunspots, Solved?

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 11

The sun is in the pits of a century-class solar minimum, and sunspots have been puzzlingly scarce for more than two years. Now, for the first time, solar physicists might understand why.


Moist Convection Can Drive Jet Streams on All Four Giant Planets

Moist Convection Can Drive Jet Streams on All Four Giant Planets

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 13, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Turbulence generated by thunderstorms can drive the multiple east-west jet streams on the giant planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune – and explain a long-standing conundrum concerning ...





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Golden Oldie: Key Role for Ancient Protein in Algae Photosynthesis

Golden Oldie: Key Role for Ancient Protein in Algae Photosynthesis

Biology / Biotechnology

created 15 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The discovery that an ancient light harvesting protein plays a pivotal role in the photosynthesis of green algae should help the effort to develop algae as a biofuels feedstock. Researchers with the Lawrence ...


Fermi Telescope Peers Deep into Microquasar

Fermi Telescope Peers Deep into Microquasar (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 18 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made the first unambiguous detection of high-energy gamma-rays from an enigmatic binary system known as Cygnus X-3. The system pairs a hot, massive ...


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Half of Euro online travel purchases legally unsafe: EU

Technology / Internet

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More than half of all people who buy flights, hotel rooms and hire cars online risk being left without compensation if companies fail under outdated law, the EU said Thursday.


Past regional cold and warm periods linked to natural climate drivers

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (14) | comments 25

Intervals of regional warmth and cold in the past are linked to the El Niño phenomenon and the so-called "North Atlantic Oscillation" in the Northern hemisphere's jet stream, according to a team of climate scientists. These ...


The goal of robot hockey: to become better engineers

The goal of robot hockey: to become better engineers (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It may be a long time before we see robots shooting pucks and making saves in professional hockey, but second-year mechanical engineering students at the University of Alberta put some pretty ...


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Top 10 tech toys for 2009

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

This year, I've grouped my list of Top 10 tech toys into price ranges. Keep in mind that the prices listed are the suggested retail, and you may be able to find better deals.


Design chosen for British 1,000 mph car

Design chosen for British 1,000 mph car (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- A British team hoping to be the first to get a car to 1,000 mph (1,610 km/h) has made its final design selection. The six-tonne car, known as the Bloodhound, will be powered by a Eurofighter ...


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Mars Reconnaissance Orbite Team Plans Uplink of Protective Files

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The team operating NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter plans to uplink protective files to the spacecraft next week as one step toward resuming the orbiter's research and relay activities.


Researchers develop virtual streams to help restore real ones

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a unique new computer model called the Virtual StreamLab, designed to help restore real streams to a healthier state. The Virtual StreamLab, which demonstrates the ...


Cassini Sends Back Images of Enceladus as Winter Nears

Cassini Sends Back Images of Enceladus as Winter Nears

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has sailed seamlessly through the Nov. 21 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and started transmitting uncalibrated temperature data and images of the rippling terrain. ...



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