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Prototyping with industrial robots

Prototyping with industrial robots

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 10, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Ship's propellers, parts for wind energy converters, turbine housings – such large-volume castings can only be produced with special molds. The procedure is elaborate and cost-intensive because foundry workers ...





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Microsoft Store mirrors popular concept of its rival

Technology / Internet

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blink an eye, and the Microsoft Store could be mistaken for an Apple Store.


Traditional craft industry with a bright future

Traditional craft industry with a bright future

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Mary and Joseph, the angels, the manger -- at Christmas time, lots of people still decorate their homes with high-quality wooden figures depicting the nativity scene. Now, the wood carvers of South Tyrol are ...


Hard Winter Wheat Varieties Released

Hard Winter Wheat Varieties Released

Biology / Other

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first hard winter wheat varieties bred and developed for production in the eastern United States have been released by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS).


Carbon copying the 'Stradivarius' sound

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's every violinmaker's dream to produce an instrument to rival the sound of a Stradivarius but now researchers at The University of Nottingham are trying to do just that… using acoustic physics and carbon ...


Ground zero in timber wars shows signs of peace (AP)

Ground zero in timber wars shows signs of peace

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 21, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(AP) -- On a steep slope of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, a crew of young men with chain saws and hardhats worked their way through an old neglected clearcut, cutting brush and young trees and ...


Atom Pinhole Camera Acts as a Shrinking Copy Machine

Atom Pinhole Camera Acts as a Shrinking Copy Machine

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1983, Richard Feynman proposed the idea of a machine that could create smaller scale replicas of itself. Today, such a system is still a challenge, but a machine that can produce nanometer-sized ...


K-State researchers work with university in Ghana to create biofuels from native tree seeds

Researchers work in Ghana to create biofuels from native tree seeds

Biology / Other

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A short rainy season and desertification make growing food in northern Ghana difficult enough. It doesn't help that in this western African country there is little fuel available to power tractors for planting ...


Manufacturing inefficiency: Study sees 'alarming' use of energy, materials in newer manufacturing processes

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Modern manufacturing methods are spectacularly inefficient in their use of energy and materials, according to a detailed MIT analysis of the energy use of 20 major manufacturing processes.


Engineers tune a nanoscale grating structure to trap and release a variety of light waves

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

People debating politics are well-advised to shed more light than heat. Engineers working in optical technologies have the same aspiration.


RFIDs transmit through metal

RFIDs transmit through metal

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Metal efficiently blocks radiation, such as that emitted by RFID chips - small data storage units that are integrated in various objects and transmit their information to a reading device. ...



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