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Einstein Refrigerator

Einstein's green refrigerator making a comeback

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 25, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (184) | comments 10

While almost everybody knows how Einstein revolutionized physics with his theories of relativity, many people may not know that the great scientist had a domestic side, too. Well, sort of - in 1930, Einstein ...


Pushing the cold frontier in an orderly fashion

Pushing the cold frontier in an orderly fashion

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Physicists are continually reaching new lows as they reduce the temperatures of samples in their laboratories. But even nano-kelvins are not low enough to overcome the entropy (a measure of the disorder in ...


A new refrigerator could save you cool cash

Technology / Energy

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Is your refrigerator eating you out of house and home? Chances are, if it's more than 10 years old, it's gulping enough energy to put a serious hurt on your wallet.


EnergyStar ratings systems may be in need of major updates

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In a sea of energy-guzzling consumer products, the government's EnergyStar sticker is a beacon of light for many energy-conscious consumers. But that little blue square with a star on it might not be so bright after all, ...





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Stuffing the turkey and other Thanksgiving food-safety mistakes

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- What would a Thanksgiving turkey be without its stuffing, and what better place for that stuffing than inside the turkey? Despite the tradition involved, a food-safety specialist in Penn State's College of ...


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.


Jellyfish swarm northward in warming world (AP)

Jellyfish swarm northward in warming world

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 1

(AP) -- A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net. Within minutes, hundreds more were being hauled up, a pulsating ...


From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn (AP)

From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(AP) -- Standing on the shore under the relentless Central Asian sun, Badarkhan Prikeyev drew on a cigarette and squinted into the distance as one fishing boat after another returned with the day's catch.


It Takes a Solar Village

It Takes a Solar Village

Technology / Energy

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rain didn't ruin the 2009 Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. University teams successfully operated 20 net-zero, grid-connected solar power homes for a week on the National Mall. Some used ...


Magnet Lab to Investigate Promising Superconductor

Physics / Superconductivity

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Applied Superconductivity Center at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory has received $1.2 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to understand and enhance a new form of superconducting ...


A woman in space

A woman in space

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In the early years of the "space race" (1957-1975) two men sought to test a scientifically simple yet culturally complicated theory: that women might be innately better suited for space travel than men. In ...


Renewable hydrogen production becomes reality at winery

Technology / Energy

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first demonstration of a renewable method for hydrogen production from wastewater using a microbial electrolysis system is underway at the Napa Wine Company in Oakville. The refrigerator-sized hydrogen ...


Calif. advances tough flat-screen energy standards

Technology / Business

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

(AP) -- Energy regulators on Friday moved forward with a plan that could ban the sale of the most power-hungry televisions from California retail stores.


Learning How Materials Work in Space to Make Them Better on Earth

Learning How Materials Work in Space to Make Them Better on Earth

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

What's about the size of a large refrigerator, weighs a ton and may help pave the way for new and improved metals or glasses here on Earth? It's the Materials Science Research Rack -- a new laboratory on board ...



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