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Engineers Closing the Gap Between High-Speed Data Transmission and Processing

Engineers Closing the Gap Between High-Speed Data Transmission and Processing

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 27, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego have achieved world-record speeds for real-time signal processing in an effort to meet ambitious goals set by the Defense Advanced ...





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300 mph: New Land Speed Record for a Hydrogen Powered Vehicle

Technology / Energy

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the complaints that many have with regard to vehicles powered by alternative energy is the fact that they don't really have a lot of speed. However, this does not necessarily have to ...


100-meter sprint world record could go as low as 9.48 seconds

Biology /

created Nov 28, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

2008 was a great summer for sports' fans. World records tumbled at the Beijing Olympics. Usain Bolt shattered both the 100m and 200m world records, knocking tenths of a second off each. People have been getting faster and ...


Warm water, winds affect Lake Superior

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 04, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

U.S. researchers say warmer water and higher wind speeds have contributed to Lake Superior's near record low-water levels.


Bell Labs breaks optical transmission record, 100 Petabit per second kilometer barrier

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (27) | comments 0

Alcatel-Lucent today announced that scientists in Bell Labs, the company’s research arm, have set a new optical transmission record of more than 100 Petabits per second.kilometer (equivalent to 100 million Gigabits per second.kilometer). ...


De-multiplexing to the max: 640 Gbits/second

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Sliced light is how we communicate now. Millions of phone calls and cable television shows per second are dispatched through fibers in the form of digital zeros and ones formed by chopping laser pulses into bits. This slicing ...


SanDisk Offers New 32- AND 16-Gigabyte SDHC and 8GB SDHC Plus Cards

SanDisk Offers New 32- AND 16-Gigabyte SDHC and 8GB SDHC Plus Cards

Electronics / Hardware

created Jan 31, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Giving photo enthusiasts the freedom to take more pictures and shoot more video, SanDisk Corporation today increased both capacities and speeds in its SanDisk Ultra II line with the introduction of 32- and ...


Lizard hunting styles impact ability to walk, run

Lizard hunting styles impact ability to walk, run

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created Apr 21, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The technique lizards use to grab their grub influences how they move, according to researchers at Ohio University.


Design chosen for British 1,000 mph car

Design chosen for British 1,000 mph car (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- A British team hoping to be the first to get a car to 1,000 mph (1,610 km/h) has made its final design selection. The six-tonne car, known as the Bloodhound, will be powered by a Eurofighter ...


Scientists break light modulation speed record -- twice

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Researchers have constructed a light-emitting transistor that has set a new record with a signal-processing modulation speed of 4.3 gigahertz, breaking the previous record of 1.7 gigahertz held by a light-emitting diode.


Finnish over-clockers break 1 GHz graphics processor speed barrier

Electronics /

created Oct 26, 2005 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

An independent team of Finnish over-clockers has made world history by over-clocking a graphics processor to engine clock levels above 1 GHz. The record was set on the recently-announced Radeon X1800 XT graphics processor ...



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