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Philips Research reveals ultra-thin backlight technology for TVs

Philips Research reveals ultra-thin backlight technology for TVs

Electronics / Hardware

created Aug 28, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 1

In the Future Zone of this year’s IFA trade fair in Berlin, Philips Research will demonstrate its thinnest 32’’ liquid crystal display (LCD) prototype on show. With a 1mm light guide, Philips Research has ...





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The court will now call its expert witness: the brain

The court will now call its expert witness: the brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Will advances in neuroscience make the justice system more accurate and unbiased? Or could brain-based testing wrongly condemn some and trample the civil liberties of others? The new field ...


Preventing H1N1 spread to health care workers: Dilemma, debate and confusion

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

A commentary in the December issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases brings to light the gaps in knowledge on the transmission of a common pathogen - the influenza virus - and its impact on decisions about how best to pro ...


Scientists guide immune cells with light and microparticles

Scientists guide immune cells with light and microparticles (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A team led by Yale University scientists has developed a new approach to studying how immune cells chase down bacteria in our bodies. Their findings are described in the November 15 issue of Nature Methods Advanc ...


Invisibility visualized: German team unveils new software for rendering cloaked objects

Invisibility visualized: German team unveils new software for rendering cloaked objects

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists and curiosity seekers who want to know what a partially or completely cloaked object would look like in real life can now get their wish -- virtually. A team of researchers at the ...


Novel nano-devices developed by U of T researchers

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Toronto researchers continue to uncover the mysteries of space. But even the best astronauts in the world are stymied if the spaceship doesn't launch. When the countdown stops, it is often because ...


Brain maps help guide you through large-scale space, researchers find

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Lost? Not sure how to get home? Trying to find your way through the mall or an airport? Help is on the way, thanks to a stack of cells, or neurons, in your head. They're mostly on the left side of the brain in males, on the ...


Laser accelerated protons to the highest energies so far

Researchers use trident laser to accelerate protons to record energies

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 10

An international team of physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory has succeeded in using intense laser light to accelerate protons to energies never before achieved. Using this technique, scientists can ...


Travel book goes mobile with scannable QR code (AP)

Travel book goes mobile with scannable QR code

Technology / Hi Tech

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Many travelers still rely on comprehensive printed guidebooks for tourism information. But travelers are also increasingly using mobile technology to plan a trip or find their way around.


E. coli

Genomes of Two Popular Research Strains of E. coli Sequenced

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers from the United States, Korea, and France has sequenced and analyzed the genomes of two important laboratory strains of E. coli bacteria, one used to study ...


The LHC tunnel

LHC now colder than deep space

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (28) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is once again colder than deep space as it is prepared for experiments to resume in late November.



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