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Technology / Engineering

created Nov 10, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In warehouses, tidiness is a flexible term. Storage areas can be rearranged or moved around at any time. Forklift trucks will soon make it easy to follow the material flow and keep an overview in the warehouse automatically ...





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'Teapot effect' solved

Solving Teapot Effect

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from France have worked out why teapots dribble at low flow rates, and how to stop them. The effect is called the "teapot effect", and solving it could finally put an ...


Physicists find unusual electronic properties in bismuth-based crystalline material

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Physicists at Rutgers University have discovered unusual electronic properties in a material that has potential to improve solar cell efficiency and computer chip design.


New transparent insulating film could enable energy-efficient displays

New transparent insulating film could enable energy-efficient displays

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Johns Hopkins materials scientists have found a new use for a chemical compound that has traditionally been viewed as an electrical conductor, a substance that allows electricity to flow through it. By orienting ...


Radiologists and engineers develop a modified catheter to reduce contrast material injuries

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Though rare, IV contrast material administration can sometimes result in patient injury. However researchers have developed a modified catheter that may prevent such events from occurring, according to a study in the October ...


Troubled Waters: Low Apalachicola River Flow May Hurt Gulf Fisheries

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Reductions in the flow of the Apalachicola River have far-reaching effects that could prove detrimental to grouper and other reef fish populations in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico, according to a new Florida ...


New exotic material could revolutionize electronics

New exotic material could revolutionize electronics

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (53) | comments 10

Move over, silicon -- it may be time to give the Valley a new name. Physicists at the Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have confirmed the existence ...


Who can cool his body fast? Toucan (AP)

Who can cool his body fast? Toucan

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- The toucan's colorful bill gives new meaning to the phrase cool dude. Indeed, that gigantic schnoz turns out to be a radiator the rain forest dweller uses to lose body heat. The bill of the Toco Toucan ...


Fungal footage fosters foresight into plant, animal disease (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Mold and mildew may be doomed. Researchers are closer to understanding how these and other fungi grow. "Fungi have a big impact on our dinner plate," said Dr. Brian Shaw, Texas AgriLife Research plant pathologist. "We tend ...


Off the shelf maps help mitigate volcanic hazards

Off the shelf maps help mitigate volcanic hazards

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When volcanoes erupt, pinpointing the regions at high risk for lethal hazards and deciding whether or not to evacuate a resistant population comprise the most difficult problems faced by hazards ...


Salazar calls for high flows into Colorado River

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is calling for more manmade floods to be released from the Glen Canyon Dam into the Colorado River.



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