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'Smart water' may help boost production from oil wells by 60 percent

'Smart water' may help boost production from oil wells by 60 percent

Chemistry /

created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (29) | comments 0

Researchers in Norway report that injecting a special type of seawater called "smart water" into certain low-yield oil wells may help boost oil extraction by as much as 60 percent. The study could help meet ...





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'Smart' holograms help patients help themselves

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 04, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Patients with diabetes, cardiac problems, kidney disorders or high blood pressure could benefit from the development of new hologram technology. The new "smart" holograms, which can detect changes in, for example, blood-glucose ...


Lunar south pole mosaic

New lunar south polar maps from SMART-1

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 11, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Newly-released images of the lunar south-polar region obtained by ESA’s SMART-1 are proving to be wonderful tools to zero-in on suitable study sites for potential future lunar exploration missions.


SMART-1: Travel maps of the lunar north pole

SMART-1: Travel maps of the lunar north pole

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 05, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A new map obtained with SMART-1 data shows the geography and illumination of the lunar north pole. Such maps will be of great use for future lunar explorers.


Smart Particle Path

Tracking Flow with Smart Dust

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 12, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Tiny probes packed with instrumentation have been turned loose in a laboratory in France.


Benefits of a 'smart' power grid in debated

Technology / Energy

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

When Kevin Linn of Coral Springs, Fla., received a special power meter last October, he was able to check his usage day by day and hour by hour via the Internet. He found spikes in midday when no one was home -- the water ...


Artist's impression of ESA's SMART-1

SMART-1's bridge to the future exploration of the Moon

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 09, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

ESA's SMART-1 moon mission has become a bridge to the future of lunar science and exploration.


Clever irrigation could save dying river red gums

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 14, 2008 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Dying river red gums along the River Murray in South Australia could be saved with clever irrigation technology, according to University of Adelaide researcher Anne Jensen.


Funding A Greener Grid

Funding A Greener Grid: How Obama plans to spend billions on modernizing the U.S. electrical network

Technology / Energy

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday that his administration plans to spend $3.4 billion on producing a safer, more efficient electrical grid. Obama underscored the need to find clean forms of energ ...


Drinking water watched by Queensland's seventh sense

Drinking water watched by Queensland's seventh sense

Technology / Engineering

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

One of the major sources of drinking water for south-east Queensland is now under the watchful eye of Australia's largest integrated intelligent wireless sensor network.


Google QR codes to appear in a store window near you

Google QR codes to appear in a store window near you (w/ Video)

Technology / Internet

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Google recently sent out 100,000 stickers to selected US businesses for use on their storefront windows. The stickers have the Google Maps logo and a QR code that can be scanned by smart phone ...



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