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Intel Reports Breakthrough in Stacked, Cross Point Phase Change Memory Technology

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Intel Corp. and Numonyx today announced a key breakthrough in the research of phase change memory (PCM), a new non-volatile memory technology that combines many of the benefits of today's various memory types.


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Scientists Make Temperature-Regulating Coffee Mug

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- A well-insulated mug may keep your coffee somewhat warm, but now scientists have designed a high-tech mug that can keep drinks hot or cold at the perfect temperature for up to half an hour. ...


New invention that could change design of future memory storage devices

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 08, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (22) | comments 1

A research team at Singapore A*STAR's Data Storage Institute (DSI) has invented a new phase change material that has the potential to change the design of future memory storage devices.





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Nasal Spray May End Dental Needle Injections for Upper Teeth Repair

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A nasal spray shown to numb the upper jaw is set to be tested in an FDA Phase 3 trial, which will assess the spray's effectiveness compared to the current "gold standard" treatment -- painful anesthesia injections.


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Two More Earth's Chandler Wobble Jumps Revealed, Last in 2005

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Chandler Wobble is a small variation in the rotation of the Earth on its axis. It has been known for some time that the phase of the Chandler Wobble jumped by 180 degrees in the 1920s, ...


One of the most important problems in materials science solved

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 39

Together with three colleagues Professor Peter Oppeneer of Uppsala University has explained the hitherto unsolved mystery in materials science known as 'the hidden order' - how a new phase arises and why. This discovery ...


Physicists offer new theory for iron compounds

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

An international team of physicists from the United States and China this week offered a new theory to both explain and predict the complex quantum behavior of a new class of high-temperature superconductors.


Infants draw on past to interpret present, understand other people's behavior

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The old real estate maxim "location, location, location" also plays a role in how infants learn to understand the ambiguous actions and behavior of other people.


Drilling drives a wedge at climate change summit (AP)

Drilling drives a wedge at climate change summit

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 25, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 6

(AP) -- To drill or not drill for new oil and gas.


Scientists discover key event in prostate cancer progression

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute reveals how late-stage, hormone-independent prostate tumors gain the ability to grow without need of hormones.


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Mars Orbiter Completes First Phase of Science Mission

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 12, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has completed its primary, two-year science phase. The spacecraft has found signs of a complex Martian history of climate change that produced a diversity ...


Scientists confirms liquid-liquid phase transition in silicon

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Using rigorous computer calculations, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington have established evidence that supercooled silicon experiences a liquid-liquid phase transition, ...


In the turf war against seaweed, coral reefs more resilient than expected

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

There's little doubt that coral reefs the world over face threats on many fronts: pollution, diseases, destructive fishing practices and warming oceans. But reefs appear to be more resistant to one potential menace - seaweed ...



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