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Munich lab demonstrates diesel truck engine with barely measurable emissions

German researchers demonstrate diesel truck engine with barely measurable emissions

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Just three months after the Euro 5 Norm for exhaust emissions went into force for all new car models, researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM, Germany) have demonstrated an engine that is ...





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Researchers create 'synthetic magnetic fields' for neutral atoms

Researchers create 'synthetic magnetic fields' for neutral atoms

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Achieving an important new capability in ultracold atomic gases, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute, a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University ...


Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search

Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search

Physics / General Physics

created 18 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 20

(PhysOrg.com) -- New high-energy particle research by a team working with data from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory further heightens the uncertainty about the exact nature of a key theoretical component ...


Geminid meteor shower to peak on 14th December 2009

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The annual Geminid meteor shower is predicted to peak at 0510 GMT on 14th December. Meteors (or ‘shooting stars’) are the result of small particles entering the Earth’s atmosphere at high speed, heating up ...


Cosmic rays hunted down: Physicists are closing in on the origin of cosmic rays

Cosmic rays hunted down: Physicists are closing in on the origin of cosmic rays

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 15 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A thin rain of charged particles continually bombards our atmosphere from outer space. The mysterious particles were first detected 100 years ago but until 10 years ago when a new type of ...


Space technology optimises windmill efficiency

Space technology optimises windmill efficiency

Technology / Engineering

created 23 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A French start-up company from ESA's Business Incubation Centre in the Netherlands has developed a small instrument to measure wind speed and direction from the ground up to heights of 200 ...


New imaging nano-technique to change the way we see disease

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created 4 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New nano-technology being developed by physicists at Macquarie University could help medical professionals better understand and more effectively treat cancer and other diseases. 


Physicist Jack Harris Is Honored by DARPA as One of Nation's 'Rising Stars'

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Jack Harris, an associate professor of physics, has received one of this year's Young Faculty Awards (YFA) from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He is one of 33 "rising stars" across ...


Delivering medicine directly into a tumor

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Researchers at Burnham Institute for Medical Research at University of California, Santa Barbara have identified a peptide (a chain of amino acids) that specifically recognizes and penetrates cancerous tumors but not normal ...


Blushing dusty nebula

Blushing dusty nebula

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

On Earth, we tend to find dust nothing more than a nuisance that blankets our furniture and causes us to sneeze. Cosmic dust can also be a hindrance to astronomers because cameras using visible light cannot ...


The filter is designed to be used in rural households

India's Tata launches low-cost water filter for rural poor

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

India's giant Tata Group on Monday unveiled a new low-cost water purifier, hoping to do for health what it did for motoring and provide affordable, safe drinking water for millions and cut disease.



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