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Pioneer's 16-layer optical disc

Pioneer Develops World's First 16-Layer Optical Disc

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 07, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (29) | comments 6

Pioneer Corporation has succeeded in developing a 16-layer read-only optical disc with a capacity of 400 gigabytes for the first time in the world.





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NASA NuSTAR Telescope Being Built at Nevis

NASA NuSTAR Telescope Being Built at Nevis

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's an unlikely place to build a NASA telescope: a leafy estate in Irvington, N.Y., that once belonged to the son of Alexander Hamilton. Inside a hangar-like building on the site, which is ...


New structure could produce efficient semiconductor laser sources

New structure could produce efficient semiconductor laser sources

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have achieved a nanoscale laser structure they anticipate will produce semiconductor lasers in the next two years that are more than twice as efficient ...


AOptix Technologies and NuCrypt demonstrate physical-layer quantum encryption

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

AOptix Technologies, a leading edge developer of ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions, and NuCrypt, a provider of technology for ultra-high security over optical communication networks, disclosed today the recent ...


Tracking new cancer-killing particles with MRI

Tracking new cancer-killing particles with MRI

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have created a single nanoparticle that can be tracked in real time with MRI as it homes in on cancer cells, tags them with a fluorescent ...


The 'sci' behind the 'fi'

The 'sci' behind the 'fi'

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 1

As the voyagers of the Starship Enterprise boldly went to explore new worlds week after week on Star Trek, they used a host of futuristic technologies — including tricorders, holodecks, teleportation systems ...


XMM-Newton celebrates decade of discovery

XMM-Newton celebrates decade of discovery

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory is celebrating its 10th anniversary. During its decade of operation, this remarkable space observatory has supplied new data for every aspect of astronomy. ...


Life after silicon

Life after silicon: Using exotic materials to help microchips keep improving

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The huge increases in the power and capacity of computers, cell phones and communications networks in the last 40 years have been the result of ever-shrinking silicon transistors. But silicon ...


Nature's fine designs: Scientists find modern lessons in ancient creations

Nature's fine designs: Scientists find modern lessons in ancient creations

Biology / Other

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nature and its bottom-up processes for creating robust and responsive materials are inspiring new generations of synthetic materials and creative design.


Peat fires drive temperatures up

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Peatlands, especially those in tropical regions, sequester gigantic amounts of organic carbon. Human activities are now having a considerable impact on these wetlands. For example, drainage projects, in combination with the ...


Engineer designs micro-endoscope to seek out early signs of cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Traditional endoscopes provide a peek inside patients' bodies. Now, a University of Florida engineering researcher is designing ones capable of a full inspection.



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