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5 reasons electronics show is still relevant

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The International Consumer Electronics Show wraps up in Las Vegas Friday, and despite the annual hype, the cavalcade of shiny tech didn't reveal any jaw-dropping creations that will dramatically change the way people digitally ...





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Engineers, doctors develop novel material that could help fight arterial disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A fortuitous discovery that grew out of a collaboration between UCLA engineers and physicians could potentially offer hope to the nearly 10 million Americans who suffer from peripheral arterial disease.


Just use less: Energy savings to be big part of nation’s energy future

Just use less: Energy savings to be big part of nation’s energy future

Technology / Energy

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Energy adviser and former Honeywell executive Maxine Savitz says there are enormous energy savings available through increased efficiency, as much as 30 percent by 2030.


New 'finFETS' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips

New 'finFETs' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers ...


Deepening the search  for clues to rheumatoid arthritis

Deepening the search for clues to rheumatoid arthritis

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- The gnawing pain of rheumatoid arthritis is a signal that the body’s immune system has hit the wrong target: its own cartilage and bone.


Researchers develop innovative imaging system to study sudden cardiac arrest

Medicine & Health / Research

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

A research team at Vanderbilt University has developed an innovative optical system to simultaneously image electrical activity and metabolic properties in the same region of a heart, to study the complex mechanisms that ...


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.


Smart solution: SLU researchers use smartphones to improve health of elderly diabetics in China

Smart solution: Researchers use smartphones to improve health of elderly diabetics in China

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cellular phones - once a luxury used strictly for talking - have taken on many new roles in recent years. Now researchers at Saint Louis University and Old Dominion University in Virginia say smartphones can ...


What Comes After Hard Drives?

What Comes After Hard Drives?

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (34) | comments 36

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to store and retrieve data is an important component of today's computers, as well as other modern electronic devices such as cell phones, video game consoles, and camcorders. ...


'Perspectives on Energy Policy' report now available

Technology / Energy

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The United States should create a high-level independent council to analyze and communicate critical issues to energy policymakers and the public, a group of 27 leaders in academia, government, and the private sector recommends ...


First White Spaces Network Brings Broadband Internet to Rural America

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

For the first time in the U.S., unused TV broadcast channels freed up by the transition to digital TV are being used to wirelessly deliver high-speed Internet connectivity to business, education and community users. These ...



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